Hi Sarah, We recently taught at a Data Carpentry workshop, and Katrin Tirok had a great idea - she put the challenges/exercises for the R Ecology lesson in .R scripts and I uploaded it to my Google Drive. The idea was to ask the participants to download these scripts (provide the links in the etherpad) and then write the code directly in them, which they can then save and refer back to after the workshop. However, I totally forgot to use them. I do think it will work well, but would like to try it at a next workshop.
Best wishes, Bianca Bianca Peterson, Ph.D. Environmental Sciences (Genetics) Post-doctoral Research Fellow: Pharmaceutics Potchefstroom Campus North-West University South Africa 2531 <https://twitter.com/BinxiePeterson?lang=en> [image: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianca-peterson-007b5b117/] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianca-peterson-007b5b117/> [image: https://github.com/BinxiePeterson] <https://github.com/BinxiePeterson> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:22 PM Sarah Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > great point about zooming in for projecting exercises. I've added that > note to the discussion on the issue for reference. > > > *Sarah M Brown, PhD* > sarahmbrown.org > Data Sciences Postdoctoral Research Associate > Brown University > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:44 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I usually teach R data carpentry workshops and often we find exercises a >> bit clunky indeed. >> >> What we usually did was just go on the course page and zoom-in on the >> relevant exercise (e.g. >> https://datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/03-dplyr.html#challenge). But >> as you zoom-in more the top panels take over the page, which is really not >> ideal. >> >> Another solution we came up with was to just screenshot the exercise bit >> and then just pull out the PNG of the exercise screenshot to show students. >> That works alright, but you need to remember to do these screenshots >> beforehand. >> >> In a more recent workshop I've started compiling some exercises on a >> separate document: >> https://rawgit.com/tavareshugo/data_carpentry_extras/master/slides_with_exercises/exercises.html >> >> I've only tested this once, but it worked quite well, and I think >> something along those lines would be a nice additional resource for >> trainers. >> >> hugo >> (University of Cambridge) >> > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8b630c45394d6e25-M1a90d5a4322465376acf91e4> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8b630c45394d6e25-Maf911c0ed993c001e7b896b7 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
