Say hello!

[afeld]

Hey everyone! I'm Aidan, live in Brooklyn, and work on the GitHub education team. I also run a meetup for people learning to code, do a bit of teaching, and like to dance.

Who are you!?

[jescalan]

Hi! I'm Jeff. I work @carrot where I spend lots of time doing open source things. I also work @thinkful where I try to help people who are learning more about code. I've been teaching and coding since I graduated college, and am a huge github fanboy. :cake: and :sparkling_heart: to all.

[gabekneisley]

I'm Gabe. I live in Queens, I work for a really awesome legal tech startup, I love cooking, and I'm probably overly opinionated about music.

[ghull]

Hey everyone -- I'm Gary. I teach computer science at a high school in central NJ and I'm also pretty heavily involved in the NJ branch of the Computer Science Teacher's Association (CSTA).

[bobholt]

I'm Bob. I lead the education team @bocoup. We're in the process of revamping our curriculum and making more of our content open and available for other teachers to use.

[hpssjellis]

I'm Jeremy. I teach high school Blender animation, Web page design with Javascript and Mobile App design using Phonegap. I have been coding for 38 years, and teaching programming for about 25 years. I am serious about getting phonegap into schools, as the best and easiest approach for programming for kids. My website is http://rocksetta.com and is mainly about music, except I have a teacherbrowser site teachers might find interesting. my twitter is @rocksetta.

[augbog]

I'm Augustus. I recently graduated from the University of Washington and primarily do web development work. Currently work as a Frontend Developer for Evernote. I have a strong passion for education and I have taken part in a number of classes that have implemented git as a core part of their teaching practices and I really want to help with the movement :)

[blake41]

Hey everyone,

I'm Blake. I'm teach at the Flatiron School's Web Development Fellowship in Brooklyn. I'm a self taught programmer, graduate of Hacker School and generally obsessed with teaching and learning to program.

[zamansky]

Hi everybody,

I'm a little late to the party -- that's what end of term proctoring and grading will do to you.

I've been teaching high school CS for around 24 years. Most of it at Stuyvesant High School where I built up a pretty large CS program. I some times write about it on my blog: http://cestlaz.github.io.

Most recently I started a non-profit (http://cstuy.org) that is working to bring what we've built at Stuy to a wider audience and also to support CS teacher training. We're really excited about our first summer program starting in a couple of weeks.

[MissPhilbin]

Hi,

My name is Carrie Anne and I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge, UK. I was a full time Computing teacher up until joining the foundation and I write resources for the foundation on GitHub in the RaspberryPiLearning organisation, and I help train other teachers in the ways of GitHub for Education. I also have an award winning YouTube channel to inspire girls into STEM called Geek Gurl Diaries

My other claim to fame is that I work with @bennuttall

[bennuttall]

Ha. Thanks CA.

I'm on the education team at Raspberry Pi, and I'm responsible for our website which features documentation and learning resources which are mostly written by us, with community contributions as all the source lives on GitHub (all in markdown) and is released under a Creative Commons licence.

I'm also something of a GitHub advocate. I introduced its use in education here, and I give training to teachers as well as providing online materials such as creating-resources.

Interested in how teachers like @jrobinson-uk use GitHub in the classroom.

[jrobinson-uk]

Hi,

I'm James I'm a full time Computing teacher in Cambridge UK and am currently starting to use Github education with my GCSE computer science pupils as a method of setting work and feeding back.

I'm starting to play around with writing and sharing schemes of work with Github, but am currently focusing more on its potential for teaching and learning.

We're probably not using Github in exactly the recommended way but it currently works for us (so far). You can see the basic steps we've taken at on our Github home

[lucashaley]

Hey everyone -- I'm on the game faculty at the Art Institute of Portland. I'm planning on incorporating GitHub with the annual student-led game production team.

[eriktrautman]

Hi! I work with distributed teams of remote beginners as part of The Odin Project and teach remote students during our intensive program at the Viking Code School. I started coding on my own and accelerated the learning as part of an organized program. Now I'm trying to significantly raise the quality bar of high interaction online education.

[alexjacoby]

Hey all, I'm a HS math and CS teacher in DC. This is my second year teaching AP CS (Java) and I'd like to try using github in class this year. I'm new to git but I've used other version control systems in the past. I'm mostly interested in having students use it for collaboration and for automated testing.

[kklamberty]

Hi! I'm KK and I teach computer science at the University of MN, Morris. We'd been using GitHub in classes for about a year, but I was on sabbatical for that year, so I'm pretty new to this.

[cirosantilli]

Hi, I'm adapting GitLab (GitHub open source clone) for developing books: https://github.com/booktree/booktree . Much of my research there also applies to GitHub, and I've made many feature requests for GitHub that make it better for that at: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/created_by/cirosantilli

[Drealmer]

Hi, I live in Belgium and I have been working in the video games industry for over ten years and started teaching video games programming a few years ago. I am currently working for two university colleges, and I am transitioning from years of running a self-hosted SVN repository to GitHub. My plan is to rely on the out-of-the-box Git integration of Visual Studio 2013, I wonder how that will turn out. Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss any of this and exchange tips.

[gnomex]

Hey guys, I am a computer science student, researcherer and rubyist... I live in Foz do Iguaçu, near of Iguassu Falls - Brasil. I am here to teach and help those who only speaks Portuguese and want to learn how to use git and github.

[fjukstad]

Hi! I'm a Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Currently we're trying out GitHub for the Distributed Systems Fundamentals (INF-3200) course here at the university. So far so good!

[mryantho]

Hi,

I am a 10 year CS teacher in Ontario Canada. I've just started to look into using Git with my students for both assignments as well as a course page. Feeling a bit overwhelmed but I'm looking forward to learning some new things.

[hpssjellis]

Hi Justin:

Your the only other Canadian teacher here. What are you teaching and what grades? I teach grades 8-12 web page design, blender animation and phonegap mobile app design CS 11&12). This year I am using nitrous.io with github and google docs to share my assignments.

Jeremy Ellis

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Justin Yantho notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi,

I am a 10 year CS teacher in Ontario Canada. I've just started to look into using Git with my students for both assignments as well as a course page. Feeling a bit overwhelmed but I'm looking forward to learning some new things.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55842708.

[mryantho]

I teach 10-12 Computer Science (well, grade 10 is computer studies.) Gr. 10 is Scratch, App Inventor, and Processing mostly. Gr. 11 is Python, and starting this year, Gr. 12 is JavaScript. I've been looking at going to more web and mobile app design. Looked at PhoneGap last week actually, but haven't done anything with it yet.

I was planning on having students develop a JS tutorial site using Git Pages, but I'm not sure if I'd rather just gloss over more of the web design parts (that Pages would require.)

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jeremy Ellis notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Justin:

Your the only other Canadian teacher here. What are you teaching and what grades? I teach grades 8-12 web page design, blender animation and phonegap mobile app design CS 11&12). This year I am using nitrous.io with github and google docs to share my assignments.

Jeremy Ellis

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Justin Yantho notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi,

I am a 10 year CS teacher in Ontario Canada. I've just started to look into using Git with my students for both assignments as well as a course page. Feeling a bit overwhelmed but I'm looking forward to learning some new things.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55842708.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55843405.

Justin Yantho

[hpssjellis]

I am trying something new this year to learn javascript using the phonegap developer app and nitrous. Check out my github site at

https://github.com/hpssjellis/j06-kids-can-code-nitrous-pgb-helloworld

This allows me to test apps live, while coding and view on win8, ios and android without any certificates.

Jer. On Sep 16, 2014 8:17 PM, "Justin Yantho" notifications@github.com wrote:

I teach 10-12 Computer Science (well, grade 10 is computer studies.) Gr. 10 is Scratch, App Inventor, and Processing mostly. Gr. 11 is Python, and starting this year, Gr. 12 is JavaScript. I've been looking at going to more web and mobile app design. Looked at PhoneGap last week actually, but haven't done anything with it yet.

I was planning on having students develop a JS tutorial site using Git Pages, but I'm not sure if I'd rather just gloss over more of the web design parts (that Pages would require.)

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jeremy Ellis notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Justin:

Your the only other Canadian teacher here. What are you teaching and what grades? I teach grades 8-12 web page design, blender animation and phonegap mobile app design CS 11&12). This year I am using nitrous.io with github and google docs to share my assignments.

Jeremy Ellis

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Justin Yantho notifications@github.com

wrote:

Hi,

I am a 10 year CS teacher in Ontario Canada. I've just started to look into using Git with my students for both assignments as well as a course page. Feeling a bit overwhelmed but I'm looking forward to learning some new things.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55842708.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55843405.

Justin Yantho

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55844056.

[hpssjellis]

Here is the video about how to use nitrous.io with the phonegap developer app and github to make mobile apps using javascript on win8, iOS and Android without needing certificates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ0N5c7avp4&list=UUEQIpmHYUnspHQFAju50cRA

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jeremy Ellis keyfreemusic@gmail.com wrote:

I am trying something new this year to learn javascript using the phonegap developer app and nitrous. Check out my github site at

https://github.com/hpssjellis/j06-kids-can-code-nitrous-pgb-helloworld

This allows me to test apps live, while coding and view on win8, ios and android without any certificates.

Jer. On Sep 16, 2014 8:17 PM, "Justin Yantho" notifications@github.com wrote:

I teach 10-12 Computer Science (well, grade 10 is computer studies.) Gr. 10 is Scratch, App Inventor, and Processing mostly. Gr. 11 is Python, and starting this year, Gr. 12 is JavaScript. I've been looking at going to more web and mobile app design. Looked at PhoneGap last week actually, but haven't done anything with it yet.

I was planning on having students develop a JS tutorial site using Git Pages, but I'm not sure if I'd rather just gloss over more of the web design parts (that Pages would require.)

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jeremy Ellis notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Justin:

Your the only other Canadian teacher here. What are you teaching and what grades? I teach grades 8-12 web page design, blender animation and phonegap mobile app design CS 11&12). This year I am using nitrous.io with github and google docs to share my assignments.

Jeremy Ellis

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Justin Yantho < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am a 10 year CS teacher in Ontario Canada. I've just started to look into using Git with my students for both assignments as well as a course page. Feeling a bit overwhelmed but I'm looking forward to learning some new things.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55842708.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55843405.

Justin Yantho

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55844056.

[mryantho]

Thanks for the information - I appreciate it.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Jeremy Ellis notifications@github.com wrote:

Here is the video about how to use nitrous.io with the phonegap developer app and github to make mobile apps using javascript on win8, iOS and Android without needing certificates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ0N5c7avp4&list=UUEQIpmHYUnspHQFAju50cRA

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jeremy Ellis keyfreemusic@gmail.com wrote:

I am trying something new this year to learn javascript using the phonegap developer app and nitrous. Check out my github site at

https://github.com/hpssjellis/j06-kids-can-code-nitrous-pgb-helloworld

This allows me to test apps live, while coding and view on win8, ios and android without any certificates.

Jer. On Sep 16, 2014 8:17 PM, "Justin Yantho" notifications@github.com wrote:

I teach 10-12 Computer Science (well, grade 10 is computer studies.) Gr. 10 is Scratch, App Inventor, and Processing mostly. Gr. 11 is Python, and starting this year, Gr. 12 is JavaScript. I've been looking at going to more web and mobile app design. Looked at PhoneGap last week actually, but haven't done anything with it yet.

I was planning on having students develop a JS tutorial site using Git Pages, but I'm not sure if I'd rather just gloss over more of the web design parts (that Pages would require.)

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jeremy Ellis notifications@github.com

wrote:

Hi Justin:

Your the only other Canadian teacher here. What are you teaching and what grades? I teach grades 8-12 web page design, blender animation and phonegap mobile app design CS 11&12). This year I am using nitrous.io with github and google docs to share my assignments.

Jeremy Ellis

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Justin Yantho < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am a 10 year CS teacher in Ontario Canada. I've just started to look into using Git with my students for both assignments as well as a course page. Feeling a bit overwhelmed but I'm looking forward to learning some new things.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub < https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55842708>.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55843405.

Justin Yantho

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55844056.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-55854366.

Justin Yantho

[toddwseattle]

I'm Todd. I'm a venture capitalist by day, at Divergent Ventures in seattle and also do teaching. Lately, I've principally been teaching a capstone entrepreneurship course, NUventon Web at Northwestern in Chicago (yup it's a big commute) where folks develop and ship software products over two academic quarters. I'm on a bigger adventure right now, teaching in Africa at a University called Ashesi University (and yes, it's a bigger commute than chicago/seattle!). I'm teaching software engineering, where we are using github at the core; and entrepreneurship where we aren't using github.

[kendrickhang]

Hi all,

I am an instructor at Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington (outside of Seattle). I'm leading the new Bachelor of Applied Science in Software Development program where we are focused on hands-on learning and teaching the skills that employers want. One of the skills that our industry partners have stressed is distributed version control. We are using Git and GitHub in our classes as a means for students to submit their work (sharing their repositories with me and our other instructors) and as a means for collaboration for team projects. I'm looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from you all in this forum.

Ken

[kentcollins]

I'm a high school computer science teacher and robotics mentor in London, UK. I've started using Github as a repository for both personal and professional work. I attempted to incorporate Github last year with AP Computer Science students but I don't think I understood it well enough and lost them along the way. This year, I am having much better success which I attribute to being more knowledgeable on my end, a slower rollout (first, a gentle intro to command line Git over several class sessions; later, Github), and lots of simple practice opportunities for the students.

[emudrak]

I'm a statistical consultant at Cornell University. I meet with faculty, staff, grad students and undergraduates to help them work out the analyses for their research projects. I also teach workshops on statistical techniques and best practices for statistical computing. I am involved with teaching Software Carpentry bootcamps. I'm rather new to Git, but I'd like to get more researchers to move towards reproducible research.

[kentcollins]

So nice to meet you, Erika. I'm teaching Git to my computer science students, so I'm open to hear about how you are using it and about your software camps.

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[jrstanley]

Hi, I'm James and I am a part-time lecturer in web technologies at Staffordshire University in the UK. My teaching focuses on Javascript courses varying from creating multi-player canvas games, to mobile web apps plus Cordova/PhoneGap plus some data analysis and a little PHP. I also supervise undergraduate final projects.

We put a lot of effort into keeping our course material up to date (quite challenging with the rate of change in the web), and as part of this I am looking at ways to embed version control more concretely into practical work we do in the labs. The idea of some level of automated feedback based on testing is very interesting to me.

[jmacey]

Hi I'm Jon and I'm a senior lecturer in computer animation at the National Centre for computer animation at Bournemouth University. I mainly teach graphics programming in C++ and intend to use github for both my own teaching code and also for assignment submissions / monitoring. At present I have most of my demo code and library online here and you can see the rest of my teaching here

[hpssjellis]

Hi James:

Sounds a lot like what I do at the High School level. Can't hellp too much with the version control stuff but really interested if you have your curriculm online? On Oct 7, 2014 10:28 AM, "James" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, I'm James and I am a part-time lecturer in web technologies at Staffordshire University in the UK. My teaching focuses on Javascript courses varying from creating multi-player canvas games, to mobile web apps plus Cordova/PhoneGap plus some data analysis and a little PHP. I also supervise undergraduate final projects.

We put a lot of effort into keeping our course material up to date (quite challenging with the rate of change in the web), and as part of this I am looking at ways to embed version control more concretely into practical work we do in the labs. The idea of some level of automated feedback based on testing is very interesting to me.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-58223903.

[jrstanley]

Hi Jeremy. Unfortunately at this stage we don't, although it is something actively under consideration within our group. I think there is a real chance that this could happen. It is the case that some of our content and material end up being published outside of our LMS (Blackboard) anyway.

I am quite a fan of JS Bin, which we tend to use to distribute small code examples (as it can render output too, and supports exporting as a gist).

[teromakotero]

I'm Tero, special education teacher teaching autistic pupils in Espoo, Finland. I also teach ICT for teachers. Today I was teaching Scratch for teacher's as part of Education Week in Europe #CodeEU here: http://events.codeweek.eu/view/517/interested-in-coding-and-robotics-roadshow/.

[Evpok]

Hello everybody, I am a lycée (French High School) maths and CS teacher. I'd love to teach VCS to my students, but for now it is sadly impossible to fit into the official schedule, so I just use it to develop my lecture material.

[jmpp]

Hello everyone. I'm Jean-Marie, HTML5 enthusiast and I teach front-end dev in a Parisian private school. I usually give basic courses (algorithmic, html/css) but also more focused ones (Leap Motion, OUYA, Game programming, ...) and it's really cool :)

[mosiers]

Hello everyone, I'm Scott, and I am teaching computer repair and networking at a high school in the middle Tennessee area in the US. I am trying to figure out how to best use GitHub for what I want to do in class (my classes prepare kids for the CompTIA A+ and Network+ exams), so any ideas would be beneficial.

[hpssjellis]

Hey Scott. Not sure how relevant this, but I just made this video http://youtu.be/nuCaWh6_Hp8

On how I use my github site to help teach computer programming. On Oct 19, 2014 7:01 PM, "mosiers" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello everyone, I'm Scott, and I am teaching computer repair and networking at a high school in the middle Tennessee area in the US. I am trying to figure out how to best use GitHub for what I want to do in class (my classes prepare kids for the CompTIA A+ and Network+ exams), so any ideas would be beneficial.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-59675842.

[knmnyn]

Hi all: I'm Min from the National University of Singapore. I teach in the School of Computing, and have been using git and github for my research group but also teach a self-driven "course" for our students to do hands-on computing. We "teach" (more like recommend; since we only touch on it briefly for 60 minutes) git to students.

[eduOS]

Hi, everyone. I am a post graduate student, majoring in educational technology, in East China Normal University. I am a GitHub fanboy. I think that GitHub is a fantastic tool for collaboration in education, and I want to know all the possibilities of applying GitHub to non-coding classes.

[banj]

Hey friends— I'm Banj, I'm a psychology / theater / english teacher currently working in NYC. Like a lot of you I'm focused on making github work for students in contexts outside of computer science, and to that end I'm always on the lookout for strategies and tools that can make the workflow of github more approachable.

I'll be keeping an eye on this community going forward, and always keen to collaborate. Great to have found this place!

[joykesten]

Hi teachers!

I'm an elementary school teacher (former middle and high school teacher) making front end lessons for elementary - high school classes. If you want free lesson plans please come get them from my profile :) The video lessons I made that go with the LPs are on Treehouse. If you need financial help (especially for your classroom!) just email me at joy@teamtreehouse.com we're always happy to hook teachers up with BOGO accounts.

Thanks and please let me know if you like them or see areas for improvement.

Best, Joy

[philipmjohnson]

Aloha,

I am a professor of computer science at the University of Hawaii. I have developed a framework called Morea for facilitating course design and publication. Will make a new post for that.

Philip Johnson

[umasshokie]

Hi everyone,

I am a CS professor at Loyola University Maryland. I'm hoping to start using GitHub in our CS1 course next semester. It's currently in Java, but starting next fall it will be in Python. I hope this community will help me get up to speed on how best to set up GitHub for classroom use -- I've used various version control for about 10 years, and GitHub for about 1 year (for student research code, so not substantially). I'm hoping I can find a way to make GitHub easy for them, as we have a lot of non-majors who are terrified of coding when they first start the course; but we want to find a way to start using version control earlier in the curriculum.

Megan

[chaddcw]

Hi Folks:

I just finish teaching a course on Open Source Software Development. We used GitHub very heavily in the course.

You can see the public repositories, each with some brief description here: https://github.com/cs360f14

And the course outline here: http://zeus.cs.pacificu.edu/chadd/cs360f14/schedule.html

The order we used these repositories is:

FirstGitPractice Just an introduction to Git and GitHub.

ContactManager-Example-C First group project built around a very small C coding project.

PythonExamples_Lectures A repository to distribute example Python code snippets for the Python portion of the course.

PythonContactManager A group project built around the same concept as the ContactManager-Example-C but this time in Python.

PythonTicTacToe A group project that required students to implement Tic Tac Toe in Python.

WillametteShippingCalculator An example repository used to demonstrate hooking GitHub up with Travis-CI.

For most projects, I duplicated the public repository to private group repositories for students to actually fork and work on using these instructions: https://help.github.com/articles/duplicating-a-repository/

Feel free to use any of these repositories or to drop me a line with questions.

chadd

[philipmjohnson]

Very cool, Chadd!

I am teaching another round of my open source software engineering course in the Spring. Here are a couple modules that overlap with your curriculum:

Open source software: http://philipmjohnson.github.io/ics613s15/modules/open-source-software/

Configuration Management (aka intro to git and github): http://philipmjohnson.github.io/ics613s15/modules/configuration-management/

Philip

[shickey]

Hi All,

I'm Sean and I teach computer science at an independent high school in Minneapolis, MN. Prior to teaching, I was a software engineer for a few years (iOS, mainly).

In the past, I've used GitHub in the classroom for specific projects but am curious about using it in the future for course management, syllabi, assignments, etc.

Next semester (starting 2 weeks from now), I will be teaching a new and entirely project-based software development course in which we will be using GitHub pretty heavily for collaborating on code. Another major component of the course will involve the students reflecting on and making their learning visible and accessible to others (including me) on a regular basis. I am hoping to do this through a blogging platform and am looking into using GitHub Pages as a mechanism for this.

In terms of why I'm here, I'm just hoping to learn about what other people are doing and share the work that we're doing at our school in the CS department.

Sean

[hpssjellis]

Sean mentioned learning about what other people are doing with computer science in the classroom.

So here goes; I store all my assignments on github at:

https://github.com/hpssjellis

but get the students to work on cloud 9 ( https://c9.io/ ) learning Javascript and mobile app design (High School ) using Phonegap. See video at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K75wV8FybQ

A new teacher version of the video is coming soon. It is an entire computer programming course in one repository!

I used to use https://www.nitrous.io/ but after students have shared their work with me cloud 9 lets me reboot their free accounts whereas with Nitrous.io I have to know their passwords and login individually to reboot their accounts.

I also use google docs with my android or web app http://rocksetta.com/teacherbrowser/#myTopper to view up to 32 students documents live. Very cool for science class group projects or just classroom fast feedback when teaching Physics. Kind of like clickers on steroids. A pain to setup but well worth it later.

Presently I am working on getting the amazing ($19) spark photon robotics micro-controler at http://spark.io working from a regular HTML website. See github site at

https://github.com/hpssjellis/spark-core-web-page-html-control

Also I have lots of programming videos at

https://www.youtube.com/user/keyfreemusic/videos

I could go on and on but that is enough for today. I have coded for about 40 years and taught CS for 25.

Website http://rocksetta.com/ (Ignore the strange interest in non-standard musical notations :>)

Twitter @rocksetta

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:26 AM, shickey notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi All,

I'm Sean and I teach computer science at an independent high school in Minneapolis, MN. Prior to teaching, I was a software engineer for a few years (iOS, mainly).

In the past, I've used GitHub in the classroom for specific projects https://github.com/shickey/BearStatus but am curious about using it in the future for course management, syllabi, assignments, etc.

Next semester (starting 2 weeks from now), I will be teaching a new and entirely project-based software development course in which we will be using GitHub pretty heavily for collaborating on code. Another major component of the course will involve the students reflecting on and making their learning visible and accessible to others (including me) on a regular basis. I am hoping to do this through a blogging platform and am looking into using GitHub Pages as a mechanism for this.

In terms of why I'm here, I'm just hoping to learn about what other people are doing and share the work that we're doing at our school in the CS department.

Sean

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/education/teachers/issues/1#issuecomment-67781295.

[maxgaudin]

I'm Max and I work for a non-profit out of New Orleans called Operation Spark. We teach at-risk youth (16-24) how to code so they can get jobs in the tech industry. We also teach K-12 teachers so they teach software fundamentals in their classrooms.

Our curriculum is hosted on Github and learning Git/Github is generally in the first session of our courses. We teach HTML/CSS/Javascript and use Cloud9 so we don't have to bother with setting up local environments, students can access it from anywhere, and it's easy for them to share their code.

Coming from the background of being a software developer I am interested to learn from teachers on here and also give advice from the geeky side of things!