[Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers

2015-03-20 Thread Ethan White
At the Utah State workshop this week we tried out a different approach (at least compared to what I've seen in the past) to teaching the collaboration section of the git lesson. We had two instructors at the front of the room and each instructor did their piece of the collaboration

Re: [Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers

2015-03-20 Thread Ethan White
On 03/20/2015 09:35 AM, Matthew Gidden wrote: My only question has to do with time constraints. Normally, this exercise occurs at the end of the second day for us (a bit of a capstone project), and is thus subject to constraints if other lessons have gone over. Did you find much more time was

Re: [Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers

2015-03-20 Thread Matthew Gidden
Hi Ethan, others, I very much like the idea of this approach. At UW, we've developed a similar collaboration exercise https://github.com/UW-Madison-ACI/boot-camps/blob/2015-01-13/version-control/git/collaborate/Readme.md, where we have students issue and review pull requests. Generally, I play

Re: [Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers

2015-03-20 Thread Matthew Gidden
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Ethan White et...@weecology.org wrote: On 03/20/2015 09:35 AM, Matthew Gidden wrote: My only question has to do with time constraints. Normally, this exercise occurs at the end of the second day for us (a bit of a capstone project), and is thus subject to

Re: [Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers

2015-03-20 Thread Karin Lagesen
On 20.03.2015 18:00, W. Trevor King wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:19:50AM -0600, Ethan White wrote: At the Utah State workshop this week we tried out a different approach (at least compared to what I've seen in the past) to teaching the collaboration section of the git lesson. We had two

Re: [Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers

2015-03-20 Thread Hsi-Kai (Kai) Yang
I love to have this kind of role playing !! -kai On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Ethan White et...@weecology.org wrote: At the Utah State workshop this week we tried out a different approach (at least compared to what I've seen in the past) to teaching the collaboration section of the git

Re: [Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers

2015-03-20 Thread Ethan White
On 03/20/2015 01:30 PM, Karin Lagesen wrote: Great idea. What about just having each of the instructors put different color sticky notes on the top of their computers and have each member of each pair of students do the same? I suspect it would work equally well, however, it would only top

Re: [Discuss] Teaching collaboration in git with two instructors + two computers (Tiffany Timbers)

2015-03-20 Thread Raniere Silva
We have also done this at UW in Seattle and at UBC in Vancouver using 2 instructors with 2 projectors. It seemed to work really well, it didn't take any extra time and the feedback from students was very positve. I have written up a little description of what we did on the Instructor's Guide