Carpentries Instructors’ meeting
- Monday, February 3, 2025
- 9:00-10:00 AM
Present:
Brooks-Kieffer, Busch, Hanson, Sanderson
Agenda
- Workshop debrief
- Workshop planning
Discussions
Workshop debrief
January 2025: Genomics
Teaching parts of the workshop went well, but turnout was disappointing - less than 50% of registered learners showed up. Concern about what this might mean for R in February. No issues with Carpentries AMIs. Helpers expressed appreciation that these lessons include a sneaky introduction to Bash.
Workshop planning
February 2025: Intro R
The workshop will be in person in Watson Library. Planning to increase the registration cap to 35 to account for the recent ~50% no show rate. Instructors Brian and Michelle are planning to use Nautilus. In the event that Nautilus crashes, there are options: R environment in Google CoLab, Carpentries cloud options, and Posit Cloud. Helper recruitment is ongoing. Jamene will schedule a tech check for the classroom and push out announcements. Brian wants to distribute the announcement to EEB and MB.
Time Series Data developing lesson
Michelle and co-instructor offered a test run of their lesson in late January. They got through about 40% of what they had planned. Hoping that future learners will have more R experience; the attending group had a little, but instructors needed to take the lesson slowly. They got feedback from the learners that will help in developing the last two episodes of the lesson.
Notes by JBK, posted by JBK