some instructors are not a member of the carpentries slack
some instructors face difficulty in joining the carpentries slack
slack may have some potential for active engagement compared to topic box
Recommendations:
may be made a part of the instructor-training
certified instructors may be (auto)invited to slack
Resource-sharing via collaborative document
updated list of resource-sharing options are unavailable to the community
Recommendation:
Publicizing a list of potential collaborative document choices and may be included in the guidelines
Etherpad
CodiMD
Google Docs
DropBox
OneDrive etc.
Sharing live progress with the next instructor and learners:
instructors may face difficulty in collaboration, i.e., next instructor picking up from the partial progress by the previous instructor, e.g., code and relevant status of data files
learners may face difficulty in following up
it may be difficult to copy codes from the chat due to being interleaved with other information
it may be difficult to maintain continuous block of code and data in the collaborative document to match the demonstration on screen by the instructor
carpentries zoom room may not have copying from chat enabled
carpentries zoom room may not allow uploading and sharing files
Recommendations/practices:
some workshop share code samples ahead of time or posts/emails notes, codes, and recording at the end of each day
to share the code being shown on instructor's screen auto-synchronized almost instantly by setting up DropBox, Google drive, etc. as appropriate
RStudio has the autosave option now, this may be combined with some backup/sync service so that the learners always have the updated version of the files. Adjusting the interval may help with cloud synchronization problems.
Reference
BigBlueButton has an option to export its chat and etherpad. One might also consider building a videoconferencing solution based on WebRTC that fits the Carpentries workshops.
Carpentries slack
Recommendations:
Resource-sharing via collaborative document
Recommendation: Publicizing a list of potential collaborative document choices and may be included in the guidelines
Sharing live progress with the next instructor and learners:
Recommendations/practices: