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Planning and material for the 2020 UNAVCO GMT for Geodesy course
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Lessons learned for next year #36

Open leouieda opened 4 years ago

leouieda commented 4 years ago

This issue is to curate a list of things learned from running the course this year that we can improve next time (feel free to add to it).

A few to start:

  1. Do an icebreaker at the very beginning. Split everyone (including instructors) into small breakout rooms for 5-10 minutes and have them introduce themselves and answer 1 or 2 questions to get the conversation started (where from, what's their favorite portuguese explorer). The best part of the Scripps event is the socializing which they can't do here. So maybe we can recreate some of it this way.
  2. Maybe do the icebreaker at the end as well. Same thing but ask people to share 1 thing they learned and really enjoyed.
  3. Might be best to avoid doing echo meh > file.txt to create a file. We're in VSCode anyway so it's simpler for students to open a new file and type the characters.
  4. Give more explicit instructions for the breakout rooms. Most weren't interacting very much.
PaulWessel commented 4 years ago

We did have a separate introduction zoom 2 weeks ago and the plan was to do more of this then but not everybody attended so it tended up being mostly me telling stories. But I think having a separate ice-breaker session on an earlier day is better since it keeps the course day shorter.

joa-quim commented 4 years ago

I can replace my “echos” with a -Y

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This issue is to curate a list of things learned from running the course this year that we can improve next time (feel free to add to it).

A few to start:

  1. Do an icebreaker at the very beginning. Split everyone (including instructors) into small breakout rooms for 5-10 minutes and have them introduce themselves and answer 1 or 2 questions to get the conversation started (where from, what's their favorite portuguese explorer). The best part of the Scripps event is the socializing which they can't do here. So maybe we can recreate some of it this way.
  2. Maybe do the icebreaker at the end as well. Same thing but ask people to share 1 thing they learned and really enjoyed.
  3. Avoid doing echo meh > file.txt to create a file. We're in VSCode anyway so it's simpler for students to open a new file and type the characters.

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