Re: [discuss] What's in a name: Live-Coding, or?

[rayna harris via discuss]

Thank you, Lex! 

This thread really spoke to me, and I so happy the language is getting adopted. 

You see, I've been to dozens of non-Carpentry workshops where the instructor 
was live coding (yea!) with some access-restricted software or a data set 
(nay). This frustrated me to no end, but I didn't have the words to describe 
how our live coding method was better. I'm glad we finally have the terminology 
to emphasize that the ability of a learner to code-along is critical to the 
success of our training program.  

Thanks! 
Rayna

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Re: [discuss] What's in a name: Live-Coding, or?

[Daniel Ouso via discuss]

Hi Lex,

+1 for code-along, we can always create a noun ☺

You may evaluate "tandem-coding" too?

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 15:03, Adriana De Palma  wrote:

> Code-along. As in sing-along. As in fun J
>
>
>
> *From:* Lex Nederbragt [mailto:lex.nederbr...@ibv.uio.no]
> *Sent:* 15 October 2018 12:49
> *To:* Discuss list Carpentries 
> *Subject:* [discuss] What's in a name: Live-Coding, or?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have for a while been thinking about the term ‘live-coding’ as we use it
> as our teaching approach in workshops. What we mean is a form of teaching
> described in the instructor training material
>  as
> “work[ing] through the lesson material, typing in the code or instructions,
> with the workshop participants following along”. But there are other
> meanings of the term, for example, some people will ‘live code’ a software
> demo during a conference, without the participants doing any coding
> themselves. Apparently it even can be done as a performing arts form
> (creating sounds, images, etc)- see the wikipedia entry on ‘Live coding'.
>
>
>
> I am looking for a term that better describes what we do. Examples I have
> considered:
>
>
>
> -* live follow-along coding*; however, follow-along does not imply
> learners being active, they could just as well sit back, relax and follow
> along closely (note that the description from the instructor training
> material uses this wording also)
>
> - *live interactive coding*; however, there is not much interaction
> unless for any truly *interactive* exercises
>
> - *live together-coding* or *live collaborative coding*; however, we are
> not really coding together or collaboratively, learners merely mirror the
> instructor (except for when they do exercises); still, these are currently
> my favourites
>
>
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Lex
>
>
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[discuss] Updating the Requirements for Instructor Training Checkout

[Toby Hodges via discuss]

Hi All,

We recently opened a request for comment (RFC) around changing the instructor 
discussion element of the checkout process for new instructors (see the GitHub 
issue here for a record of the conversation: 
https://github.com/carpentries/instructor-development/issues/71 
). Thanks to 
everyone who provided input on this.
The Instructor Development Committee and Instructor Training Team need time to 
discuss all this and re-envision the goals and requirements for the checkout 
process for instructor training, but we realize there are several instructor 
training events taking place through the end of the year. Therefore, we will 
make the following adjustments:

Anyone wishing to complete their Carpentries instructor training checkout 
through to December 31, 2018 will complete the current requirements for 
instructor discussion sessions.
Anyone wishing to complete their Carpentries instructor training checkout 
beginning January 1, 2019 will do so with the revised requirements. I.e. anyone 
who is yet to complete their checkout when 2019 begins will then be required to 
fulfil whatever new requirements  are decided on.
We (the Instructor Training Team, Instructor Development Committee, and 
Community Engagement Lead) will be re-envisioning these requirements over the 
next two months. The new requirements will be similar in time commitment to the 
current discussion session requirement.

Thanks,

Toby
(on behalf of the Instructor Development Committee)



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Re: [discuss] What's in a name: Live-Coding, or?

[Lex Nederbragt]

Hi all,

It pleases me to be able to say that after the next update of the instructor 
training materials, we will now refer to our teaching practice as 
'participatory live coding', where 'learners are strongly encouraged to 
"code-along" with the instructor.' (details in this pull request 
).

Thank you for these suggestions!

Best,

   Lex
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Re: [discuss] You’re Invited! Mentoring Meetup 8-November

[Yared Abera via discuss]

Thank you Kari. I will be very much happy. Let me check the time.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 9:26 PM Kari L. Jordan, PhD <
kariljor...@carpentries.org> wrote:

> Greetings!
> Mentoring groups have been supporting each other since 5 September in
> several areas, including:
>
>- Developing teaching skills for Python
>- Mock teaching sessions to prepare to teach a workshop
>- Starting a study group around Data Carpentry lessons
>
> Our goal is to showcase the meaningful and impactful work being done
> within the community. We invite you to attend our meetup/virtual showcase
> on 8 November!
>
> There are two showcases conveniently selected for multiple timezones:
>
> *Showcase #1*
> Thursday, 8 November at 14:00 UTC
> 
>
> *Showcase #2*
> Thursday, 8 November at 23:00 UTC
> 
>
> Planning on attending? Let us know you’re coming by signing up on this
> Etherpad .
> Thanks,
> Kari
>
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Re: [discuss] You’re Invited! Mentoring Meetup 8-November

[PERU Giacomo]

I’d love to join one but currently I have not time!

:(

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On 5 Nov 2018, at 18:26, Kari L. Jordan, PhD 
mailto:kariljor...@carpentries.org>> wrote:


Greetings!

Mentoring groups have been supporting each other since 5 September in several 
areas, including:

  *   Developing teaching skills for Python
  *   Mock teaching sessions to prepare to teach a workshop
  *   Starting a study group around Data Carpentry lessons

Our goal is to showcase the meaningful and impactful work being done within the 
community. We invite you to attend our meetup/virtual showcase on 8 November!

There are two showcases conveniently selected for multiple timezones:

Showcase #1
Thursday, 8 November at 14:00 
UTC


Showcase #2
Thursday, 8 November at 23:00 
UTC

Planning on attending? Let us know you’re coming by signing up on this 
Etherpad.

Thanks,
Kari


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[discuss] Re: Discussion Session on Delivering Exercises to Learners

[Toby Hodges via discuss]

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 


Thanks,

Toby

> On 26. Oct 2018, at 11:26, Toby Hodges  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/ 
> 
> [2]: https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-infrastructure/issues/22 
> 
> [3]: https://pad.carpentries.org/instructor-discussion 
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