Hi All, A reminder that this themed instructor discussion session will take place tomorrow (Wednesday 7th November) at 15:00 UTC. Join us and contribute to a discussion of approaches to providing exercises to learners during a workshop. You can find connection information, a converter for your local time, and a place to let us know that you plan to attend, at this etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/instructor-discussion <https://pad.carpentries.org/instructor-discussion>
Thanks, Toby > On 26. Oct 2018, at 11:26, Toby Hodges <tbyh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > On Wednesday November 7th, 15:00 UTC, we will host an Instructor Discussion > Session around the theme of delivering exercises to learners during a > workshop. Sarah Brown will kick things off with an overview of how she uses > IPython ‘%load’ magic to provide exercises on-demand within a Jupyter > Notebook (see her excellent blogpost [1] and this GitHub issue [2] for more > details). We’ll follow that with a more general discussion, where we’ll hear > from the experiences of other instructors: > How do they provide exercises to their learners? > What are the advantages/disadvantages to these approaches? > How might we use/adapt the existing lesson material and template to help with > delivering exercises to our learners when they need them? > If you’re interested in learning more from our instructor community about how > to manage exercises most effectively while you teach, please join us! You can > add your name to the attendance list and check the start time in your local > timezone on the Instructor Discussion etherpad [3]. > > For those interested who can’t attend, look out for a blogpost soon after, > summarising the discussion. > > Thanks, > > Toby > > [1]: https://carpentries.org/blog/2018/09/teaching-tip-exercise-discussion/ > <https://carpentries.org/blog/2018/09/teaching-tip-exercise-discussion/> > [2]: https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-infrastructure/issues/22 > <https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-infrastructure/issues/22> > [3]: https://pad.carpentries.org/instructor-discussion > <https://pad.carpentries.org/instructor-discussion> ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tbc1a314b0f14bce5-M81d64a46f9745ed4404b9969 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
