Export to Etherpad: a New Extra in the Instructor-Training Repository

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Building Tools for Instructor Training Workshops

Wherein we talk about building tools to help instruct instructors learning how to instruct. Got that? No? Me neither. As a fairly newly minted instructor-trainer, one of my internal gripes about preparation was the need to create the Etherpad training template which serves as a shared note-taking space and workbook for the class.

Preparing this etherpad involves either editing an old text file which isn’t maintained as part of the normal lesson maintenance process (as that sort of maintenance would be tedious in the extreme) or laboriously copying and typesetting exercises from their beautiful (but non-translatable) html form into the limited number of styles allowed on the Etherpad. As I was getting ready to teach in July, the amazing Instructor Training Maintainers team were in the middle of the June release – and every time I had prepared the document, another exercise would be improved. This wonderful process of improvement, in the moment, was more than a little frustrating.

Waxing poetical in a Software Carpentry workshop

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Hi everyone! I just finished running my first segment of a Software Carpentry workshop. I massively overprepared last evening and my notes for the first four lessons of unix shell are on google drive if anyone would care to reuse them.

In any case, one of my students (who had audited one of my other classes) made the following tweet: “Never heard anyone present fundamental computing concepts so poetically as @DenubisX @swcarpentry #MacquarieUni”

Brian Ballsun-Stanton on The Carpentries

Export to Etherpad: a New Extra in the Instructor-Training Repository

Building Tools for Instructor Training Workshops

Waxing poetical in a Software Carpentry workshop