From e1ed82ff30aadee2063df5e63e5bdd65cc71d1a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Furnass Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:45:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add WF as co-author; suggest demo lesson; revise timings to allow for discussion --- README.md | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 45f76cf..d8fcdfe 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ --- title: "A highly interactive approach to teaching programming and data analysis with Software & Data Carpentry" -author: "Jez Cope (University Library), …" +author: +- Jez Cope (University Library) +- Will Furnass (Research Software Engineering group) --- # Proposal (90 minute workshop) @@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ Both of these initiatives are built around a similar model: - High quality workshop materials developed by the community and released under a Creative Commons license -- Two-day "bootcamp" workshop format, +- Two-day interactive "bootcamp" workshop format, with sessions lead by instructors and assisted by helpers from the research discipline in question - Certification programme for instructors grounded in evidence-backed pedagogy @@ -52,10 +54,10 @@ All participants will need access to a laptop during the session. ## Plan for the session (workshop only) -1. Overview of teaching methods used in the Carpentries (30 minutes) +1. Overview of teaching methods used in the Carpentries (20 minutes) - History: background & development of the Carpentry community - Pedagogy: live coding; graded examples - Instructor development 2. Taster session (60 minutes) - - Participants will be led through a short part of one of the Data Carpentry lessons - - *Need to decide which lesson & which episode* + - Participants will be led through a short part of one of the Data Carpentry lessons: an introduction to the R programming language, using ecology as a context. +3. Discussion (10 minutes)