After reading the blog post, I was thinking it would be good to put all the exercises in .txt, .R, or .py files as appropriate and have a zip file for the students to download. I will be trying this in an upcoming ecology datacarpentry workshop.
-Robert On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 6:40 AM Bianca Peterson <[email protected] wrote: > > 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-Maf911c0ed993c001e7b896b7> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8b630c45394d6e25-M1ff41c162549c31df8ad5d7e Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
