Re: [discuss] Video on (de)motivational teaching

2020-03-01 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Hi Kerensa, Might it be this one with Lex Nederbracht? https://youtu.be/bXxBeNkKmJE >From https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/14-live/index.html Kind regards, Anelda On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 07:22, McElroy, Kerensa (A&F, Black Mountain) wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm hoping our colle

[discuss] Carpentries in Uganda/East Africa

2019-11-10 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Dear colleagues, I was fortunate to meet Prof Alexandre Lyambabaje and Ben Ruhinda, respectively the Executive Secretary and Senior Systems Officer of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (www.iucea.org) recently. They were both very interested in bringing the Carpentries to Uganda (where

Re: [discuss] Lessons for lesson writer

2019-10-10 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Hi Wirawan, There is this: - Ten simple rules for collaborative lesson development - https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005963 and this: - Ten quick tips for creating an effective lesson - https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id

[discuss] Goverment studies and data science/Carpentries

2019-08-08 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Dear community, I recently met Christa de Wet (cc'ed here). Christa is a lecturer/researcher in Government Studies and is *very keen* to learn how she can bring data science practices, skills, and tools to their curriculum and research. I will plug her in with the South African Carpentries commun

Re: [discuss] Applications open: Winter School on Research Software Development

2019-08-08 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Dear Kyle, Thanks for the information! Is the school open for non-US folks as well? Kind regards, Anelda On Wed, 07 Aug 2019, 20:52 Niemeyer, Kyle, wrote: > Hello all—this opportunity may be of interest to those in this community. > > Applications are open for the URSSI pilot Winter School o

Re: [discuss] Reproducibility for Everyone - categorising resources

2019-05-15 Thread Anelda van der Walt
of communicating results (and not to a means of exploring data). It > definitely makes sens in a reproducibility context. > > In this category, I would add animated and interactive (web-based) > graphics, and even dashboards. > > Best, > Marianne > > On Wed, May

[discuss] Highlighting cultural sensitivities to visiting instructors

2019-04-03 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Dear colleagues, Over the past few months this topic has showed up on my radar several times and I thought it was important to start a conversation around it within the community. The community has grown considerably and we have started to venture into new territories where cultures, customs and

Re: [discuss] Presentation resources

2019-03-29 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Hi Pat, This is probably too late for your presentation but hopefully useful to others. A lot of people upload their Carpentries presentations to FigShare and other online sharing platforms. I just did a search for Carpentries in Figshare (https://figshare.com/search?q=carpentries&searchMode=1

[discuss] Nigeria

2019-03-29 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Dear colleagues, A large number of community members have reached out to me and others over the past few years to discuss the Carpentries in Nigeria. I have struggled to bring everyone together to help facilitate a conversation where those who are collocated or able to travel to nearby locations,

Re: [discuss] We're hiring a Regional Coordinator for Southern Africa!

2019-03-11 Thread Anelda van der Walt
; >>> Nairobi,Kenya. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:25 PM Erin Becker >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> >>>> I wanted to share with you all an exciting new job posting with The >>>> Carpentries. Please d

Re: [discuss] Teaching intro to data science at high school level

2019-03-11 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Dear all, Thanks so much for your inputs. I also just came across a resource that may be of interest to others: https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/#!/worksheets "These projects are downloadable step-by-step guides, with explanations and > colour screenshots for students to follow. > Each proje

Re: [discuss] Teaching intro to data science at high school level

2019-03-07 Thread Anelda van der Walt
here they >> had k-12 techers summarize what students at each age tend to know and be >> able to learn. The materials for high schoolers are available from this >> page: >> https://github.com/touretzkyds/ai4k12/wiki/2018-Fall-Symposium-Materials >> . >> >> *

[discuss] Teaching intro to data science at high school level

2019-03-06 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Dear community, Colleagues of mine (copied here) have received funding from the SA government to run an introduction to data science course for high school learners (16 & 17 years old). We had some preliminary discussions about content, but I have no experience with that age group - what they kno

Re: [discuss] Data for open science demo

2019-03-02 Thread Anelda van der Walt
ntent free email to the list... That sounds > awesome! (I did my dissertation in climate change communication) > > I'd love to see event curricula if you have links. > > Best, > D > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 1:11 AM Anelda van der Walt > wrote: > >> Hi Dav,

Re: [discuss] Data for open science demo

2019-02-28 Thread Anelda van der Walt
Hi Dav, I'm copying Margareth Gfrerer and Mesfin Diro, Carpentries colleagues from Ethiopia. They have been running R hackathons with the aim of helping researchers and students think about how they can use open data to facilitate data driven decision making around topics where emotion often plays

Re: [discuss] using jargon-busting

2018-12-17 Thread Anelda van der Walt via discuss
Thanks for posting these links Chris! Very useful. Kind regards, Anelda On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 12:48 AM Chris wrote: > Hi Kunal, > > Jargon busting happens to be the 2nd most popular lesson/activity in > Library Carpentry after OpenRefine. One thing you can do is browse through > our Library

Re: [discuss] using jargon-busting

2018-12-13 Thread Anelda van der Walt via discuss
Hi Kunal, This is a great email, thanks for writing it. We've started to incorporate it in our other Carpentries. Others from SA who've run workshops with the Jargon busting lesson might want to chime in. My feeling was that it didn't really work at the very start of the workshop as our audience h

Re: [discuss] Beyond carpentry / "pull requests" for shared curriculum development

2018-10-09 Thread Anelda van der Walt via discuss
Hi all, What I love about the current workflow and methodology of the Carpentries' lessons: - Anybody can contribute - not only members, invited members, or steering committee members, or some other designated group of people (if you can use the tech of course) - People get recognitio

Re: [discuss] Backup options for R and python for participants experiencing technical problems

2018-09-19 Thread Anelda van der Walt via discuss
Hi all! Katrin, thanks for starting this thread and everyone for your comments. I think it's safe to say that at least in Africa at present 80+% of our instructors have no experience with containers, virtual machines, etc nor have access to university infrastructure or support from their institut

Re: [discuss] Data Management Training Material

2018-08-22 Thread Anelda van der Walt via discuss
HI Toby, I love this guide from Australia's ANDS - https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/skills/23-research-data-things. It's published under CC BY and even have a repurpose toolkit - https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/skills/23-research-data-things/toolkit (also under CC-BY). Hope th