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Using github for a non-cs course - suggestions #37

Open bmurley opened 8 years ago

bmurley commented 8 years ago

Hello, I teach a course named "Online Journalism," which is part learning HTML/CSS and part creating a multimedia journalism story site. This semester, I'm trying to use github as a way to foster collaboration between the students on the final project. So far, I've created a final-project repository. I want to have them create their site in the repo (via Pages), but also update each other on where they're at in their part of the assignment, and make suggestions to other classmates about their submissions.

So there's part that would be code, and part that would be higher-level discussion of the project. Does anyone have a suggestion of the best way to go about this?

thanks.

umasshokie commented 8 years ago

You could use the wiki or use issues, depending on the type of discussion you want the students to have. You could potentially use comments in the code with TODO as well.

bmurley commented 8 years ago

Thanks! I'm trying out Issues today as I had students create pages under their github accounts to practice. I think that will be the way I'll pursue that.