Bioconductor teaching sticker

[lgatto]

We are looking for new a sticker for the Bioconductor teaching committee.

@jorainer - if you feel inspired and have some time :-)

[jorainer]

The sticker could feature a school class room? That's just my immediate thought - open for suggestions and ideas.

[lgatto]

While we aim to develop the lessons with remote teaching in mind, they should be usable for remote and in-person teaching, of course. Having said that, a class conveys the message rather well, so the remote aspect shouldn't stop from using it.

[kevinrue]

I was initially thinking of the whole sticker being a board that would have the Bioconductor logo and other drawings, but I like that idea of a classroom even more!

Something like this image grabbed from the web, where the bioc note could stand for anything from a student, the teacher, or the topic of the class as a drawing on the board

I can't picture a design that would convey both in-person and online learning. Perhaps one desk in the classroom could have a laptop on it.

[jorainer]

Thanks @kevinrue - this was also what I had in mind. Only, I will maybe just focus on the chalk-board - fitting the full classroom onto a sticker will be too busy - too many small details that are indistinguishable on the 5x5cm sticker...

[jorainer]

That's what I've come up so far. Still time for change requests - otherwise I will do the fine-tuning and create the sticker.

[csoneson]

This looks great @jorainer! The only thing I was wondering is whether there should be something (a laptop?) on one of the desks, but perhaps that's just too small.

[lgatto]

It look really great! I agree that a laptop/computer could be more in-line with the remote teaching aspects, but I don't think it's absolutely necessary. The old-school benches and blackboard have a certain touch.

[jorainer]

Thanks for the feedback! I also thought about the laptop, but in the end decided against that for two reasons: 1) it will indeed be very small to see and 2) using a notebook in class (i.e. having it on the desk) does not really make it a virtual classroom - because the person is physically present. What would be better is to have a camera and a microphone on the teachers desk. I will try that. But it will again be very small and hard to see/understand.

[jorainer]

First version of the sticker - I am quite satisfied, I'm just not sure with the DNA festoon. Without it the upper part of the sticker looks empty, but I'm afraid that people don't understand what it is...

[lgatto]

Really like it, thank you.

Do you think it would be possible to either move the URL along the bottom right edge, or reduce the BiocTeaching title - I have the impression that the two are a bit too close to each other and that in real life format, it looks as they belonged together.

[jorainer]

Yes, sure. Problem is I can not put the URL in it's standard location because it will become unreadable (due to the background image). I will play around with it a little.

[jorainer]

Updated version - put the URL in the top right corner:

[csoneson]

This looks really great!

[jorainer]

Thanks 😊 - And BiocTeaching is OK as a title? I would then add the sticker to the repo (under boards/BiocTeaching).

[csoneson]

That seems all good to me.

[lgatto]

Really great, thank you Jo!

[jorainer]

Sticker added with commit https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocStickers/commit/cca49cb414935a789be4859866730c2be2e447d6 . The sticker is in boards/BiocTeaching: https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocStickers/tree/master/boards/BiocTeaching