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idea: live lectures #79

Open max-mapper opened 9 years ago

max-mapper commented 9 years ago

earlier for @datproject we did a Hangout on Air: https://github.com/datproject/discussions/issues/15

A cool property of Hangouts on Air is that they get automatically posted to Youtube afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sk6kcF7viM

We used gitter chat during the call to get questions from people watching live.

I was thinking we can schedule some live lectures to accompany nodeschool workshops. We can promote them as live events beforehand, and people can watch live and ask questions via gitter.

For example, for learnyounode we can have @timoxley give his talk that he gives before nodeschools that introduces people to node. For levelmeup we can have someone from the level community talk about leveldb.

Having video content available as a intro or supplement to the workshops would help a lot of people get started I think.

Feedback/ideas?

yoshuawuyts commented 9 years ago

Oh yeah, that'd be great! Not only would it serve as great guidance to students, I think mentors too could learn a thing or two (explaining concepts can be hard! :D)

This reminds me a bit of Harvard's CS50 course. Something that's quite nice in CS50 is that they not only provide lectures, they also have shorts that briefly explain tricky concepts. Albeit a bit lame at times, I found them to be invaluable reference material when following the course last year. I can imagine something similar would come in handy for NodeSchool as well.

joyrexus commented 9 years ago

@maxogden wrote:

we can have @timoxley give his talk that he gives before nodeschools that introduces people to node.

Oh, nice. Wondering if any video of this talk by @timoxley is available? Nothing popped up on my initial search. I'm coordinating a little event out in the sticks and would love to show such a thing to the other facilitators if available.