Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
Very cool indeed. I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester. Is your code available? Cheers, M Sent from my iPad
Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
All of the code is here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela and there is some documentation in the README. I am not sure how much work it would take to try it yourself though. You need to setup a gitolite server (that is described in the README), and more importantly figure out how to get this in your student's hands. For windows users, they can just clone jmax, and it should run out of the box (it has an emacs in it). Marvin M. Doyley mdoy...@me.com writes: Very cool indeed. I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester. Is your code available? Cheers, M Sent from my iPad -- --- John Kitchin Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
I am going to try this semester also. Thanks for paving the way. :-) On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: All of the code is here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela and there is some documentation in the README. I am not sure how much work it would take to try it yourself though. You need to setup a gitolite server (that is described in the README), and more importantly figure out how to get this in your student's hands. For windows users, they can just clone jmax, and it should run out of the box (it has an emacs in it). Marvin M. Doyley mdoy...@me.com writes: Very cool indeed. I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester. Is your code available? Cheers, M Sent from my iPad -- --- John Kitchin Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu -- Evan Misshula Doctoral Student (Criminal Justice) City University of New York The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers ~ John Hamming Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. Johann Von Goethe EvanMisshula.github.io http://EvanMisshula.github.io
Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
* Wow! Thanks for posting this topic and your techela. * Suggest an Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp and OrgMode be everyone's first, and maybe last, required course in grade school--other than Reading, Writing and Arithmetic of course! * Suggest all students download this free book and conquer it: http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/robert-chassell/an-introduction-to-programming-in-emacs-lisp/ebook/product-17413062.html ** A masterpiece by Robert J. Chassell. * Also suggest his free online copy of Software Freedom: An Introduction, for more philosophy on the Free Software movement, to benefit students and teachers. ** Most especially chapter 13, which covers why non-free software limits learning--and a whole lot more: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/softfree/softfree/software-freedom.html?revision=1.23#Limits-to-Learning On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: All of the code is here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela and there is some documentation in the README. I am not sure how much work it would take to try it yourself though. You need to setup a gitolite server (that is described in the README), and more importantly figure out how to get this in your student's hands. For windows users, they can just clone jmax, and it should run out of the box (it has an emacs in it). Marvin M. Doyley mdoy...@me.com writes: Very cool indeed. I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester. Is your code available? Cheers, M Sent from my iPad -- --- John Kitchin Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
Thanks John, I am sure this will be better than blackboard. I will give it a try :) Cheers M Sent from my iPhone ** May contain typos** On Dec 20, 2014, at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: All of the code is here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela and there is some documentation in the README. I am not sure how much work it would take to try it yourself though. You need to setup a gitolite server (that is described in the README), and more importantly figure out how to get this in your student's hands. For windows users, they can just clone jmax, and it should run out of the box (it has an emacs in it). Marvin M. Doyley mdoy...@me.com writes: Very cool indeed. I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester. Is your code available? Cheers, M Sent from my iPad -- --- John Kitchin Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
Vry cool. Could we get some background information? How much time did it take to get all the elements coordinated and running properly? Was any piece particularly easy? Natural? Difficult? Were the grade reports assignment-specific or cumulative? Did the grading work for the entire course? (Exams come to mind, unless they were done in emacs too.) Again, vry cool. Thanks for letting everyone know. -- ,Doug Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 or ext 4335 This is a slow pup, he said continuing his ascent. -Original Message- On Behalf Of John Kitchin Subject: [O] org-mode in teaching Hi all, I wrote a blog post (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/12/18/org-mode-+-Python-+- git-in-a-graduate-engineering-course/) on how I used org-mode in teaching this past fall. Short summary: All the notes, assignments, quizzes, exams, etc... were in org-mode, students did all their work in org-mode, and we did all our grading in org-mode. It was pretty awesome! Thanks everyone for an awesome community, and fantastic package in org-mode. Best wishes in the new year! -- --- John Kitchin @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Doug Lewan do...@shubertticketing.com wrote: Vry cool. Could we get some background information? Sure. I put a screen cast up here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUCiF2MwP4 in case you want to see what it looks like. How much time did it take to get all the elements coordinated and running properly? I spent a lot of July and August writing the techela code, and about a month after class started polishing it. I set up jmax so it would automatically pull new additions from github when you launch emacs, so students were always up to date. the actual code is currently here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela, but I will probably move it into its own repo at some point. Was any piece particularly easy? Natural? Difficult? The git integration was most difficult. Getting the right recipe to save student work and merge when needed was tricky. There is still room for improvement on this. Getting the secure communication was not obvious either. In Emacs, I temporarily set GIT_SSH which uses a custom script to do git over ssh with a config file that points to the student pub key. org-links were very natural. I made an assignment link so when students click on it, it would create a local repo for the assignment and open it. when they finished, they could turn it in from a menu, which pushed the work back to my git server. I also used a special link to record multiple-choice question answers, which made grading easy later. Were the grade reports assignment-specific or cumulative? Did the grading work for the entire course? (Exams come to mind, unless they were done in emacs too.) The grading worked for every assignment. Even quizzes and exams were done in class, in Emacs, we were paper free the whole semester. Each assignment had the grade stored in it, and the grade report would have an entry for each assignment in the semester. Again, vry cool. Thanks for letting everyone know. -- ,Doug Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 or ext 4335 This is a slow pup, he said continuing his ascent. -Original Message- On Behalf Of John Kitchin Subject: [O] org-mode in teaching Hi all, I wrote a blog post (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/12/18/org-mode-+-Python-+- git-in-a-graduate-engineering-course/) on how I used org-mode in teaching this past fall. Short summary: All the notes, assignments, quizzes, exams, etc... were in org-mode, students did all their work in org-mode, and we did all our grading in org-mode. It was pretty awesome! Thanks everyone for an awesome community, and fantastic package in org-mode. Best wishes in the new year! -- --- John Kitchin @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
Re: [O] org-mode in teaching
I put a screencast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUCiF2MwP4feature=youtu.bea if you would like to see some of what this was like. John Kitchin jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu writes: Hi all, I wrote a blog post (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/12/18/org-mode-+-Python-+-git-in-a-graduate-engineering-course/) on how I used org-mode in teaching this past fall. Short summary: All the notes, assignments, quizzes, exams, etc... were in org-mode, students did all their work in org-mode, and we did all our grading in org-mode. It was pretty awesome! Thanks everyone for an awesome community, and fantastic package in org-mode. Best wishes in the new year! -- --- John Kitchin Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
