Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 08:13:25 -0500 hugo.tava...@slcu.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi Toby, > > I don't think I'll make it on time for this discussion. But would > just like to leave a few points about the idea of having the > exercises on a document separately from the course materials: > > 1) During delivery it's nice that one can just project the page with > exercises without the distraction of the rest of the materials on the > screen. 2) For development it also means that one can change the > exercises without touching the materials, allowing for trainers to > more easily adapt the exercises depending on the audience, add extra > exercises, etc. 3) Perhaps by having all the exercises together in a > document could help to see a "narrative" in the lesson, helping to > contextualise what is being learned as one moves along. > > Would be curious to know what others will think about it. I totally agree with your points, and I in fact do this. I have a set of slides which consist on: i) One slide with every section title and a few bullets introducing the section (in a la Overview section manner) ii) More slides, with a different background color (dark green in my case), with one exercise on each one. This, as you mention, presents the exercise distraction-free and the background clearly states that it is an exercise. When exercise time I just swap the terminal / jupyter with the slides. I saw an instructor (thanks JC Leyder!) do this in the first workshop I organized years ago and I got totally sold by the concept! Cheers, Iñigo > Cheers, > hugo > ------------------------------------------ > The Carpentries: discuss > Permalink: > https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tbc1a314b0f14bce5-Mb9eab0fbe206cf370738007f > Delivery options: > https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tbc1a314b0f14bce5-M503f4ecc4ac8a46ce8695d33 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
