Carpentries Instructors’ meeting
- Monday, February 7, 2022
- 9:00-10:00 AM
Present:
Brooks-Kieffer, de Mello, Dwyer, Koseva, Loecke, Machado-Stredel, Ramos, Russell, Thomas, Wheeler
Agenda
- Check in on Data Carpentry Genomics
- Other workshop topics this Spring?
- Open discussion time
Discussions
Data Carpentry Genomics
Workshop will be 3 full days, February 15-17 (Zoom), with Elizabeth and Boryana instructing. There are some open helper slots on Wednesday (2/16) and Thursday (2/17) mornings. Registration includes significant participation from CMRI. Both instructors are okay with increasing the registration cap to accommodate waitlisted learners. Elizabeth has generated a dataset for use in part of the workshop; both instructors are figuring out AMI logistics with using this dataset. Casey gets all the gold stars for providing some early AMI instances for Elizabeth and Boryana.
Other Spring 2022 workshops
- OCR/Bash Shell unofficial workshop in late April (Kaylen & Jamene)
- intermediate/Advanced R with RMarkdown and possibly the RStudio GitHub integration. Firm topics are still in development. Target for late Spring semester (Sam T. and Sam Z.)
- Intro to Git/GitHub if #2 has a Git/GitHub prerequisite; would need to be mid- to late-March to still fit in R before May (People TBD)
- Learners tend to sign up for the Git lesson hoping for GitHub, but 3 hours isn’t long enough to cover all of the material.
- Idea to start with GitHub, then move to CLI in an all-day format. Kaylen has had some success introducing Git to novices by starting with GitHub.
- Data Carpentry Ecology - Spreadsheet lesson, data organization (tidy data) principles, timeframe TBD (tentatively Rob and Chris)
Open Discussion
Introductions to welcome Chris!
Q: What are the requirements after completing certification?
A: Teach at an official workshop within 1 year, then every 2 years after that to maintain certification. No need to teach a whole workshop on your own; we typically partner 2-3 instructors on one workshop. We had success in Fall 2021 pairing 1 new and 1 experienced instructor on each single-topic SWC workshop.
The Carpentries mines our workshop pages for instructor and helper credit after a workshop; Jamene updates the information if they don’t catch everyone. Any instructor can log in to their Carpentries database (AMY) account to verify their data. Guidance for AMY is included in The Carpentries Handbook.
Notes by SGT, posted by JBK