[Campus-neiu-staff] switching the git activity

[meg ford]

Hi Shauna,

I'd much rather act as a floating mentor for the git activity. Do we need
five mentors for groups?

Meg


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> The gitimmersion exercise goes through a large number of steps, I can't
> imagine even the advanced group would get through it all.  The advanced
> groups would go more quickly (possibly even skipping the first few
> sections) and go farther.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Zach Rhoads <zach at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Shauna:
>>
>> Let me go through the git activity tonight and I'll get back to you.
>>
>> For the advanced group, would you be looking for just moving through the
>> activity more quickly, or are you think about additional exercises on top
>> of it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Zach
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> This will primarily be of interest to Paul, Jim, Sheila, Zach and Meg,
>> who are signed up to lead the small groups learning git.
>>
>> Given what's been going on with Github lately (as well as longstanding
>> complaints about their use of proprietary software), I'm not thrilled with
>> the focus our current "intro to git" activity puts on Github.
>>
>> We're probably going to change our version of the activity, but we don't
>> have time to do so before this weekend.  This seems like a very solid
>> alternative:
>>
>> http://gitimmersion.com/
>>
>> (This is a pretty lengthy activity, so groups can start from the
>> beginning and see how far they get.)
>>
>> Do you all feel comfortable leading students through this activity,
>> instead of ours?  If enough of you prefer, we can stick with our current
>> activity.
>>
>> While I'm asking you about git, it's frequently useful to split up
>> students by experience so that some groups can go further while others take
>> their time to cover basic concepts.  Who feels comfortable leading the more
>> advanced groups?
>>
>> best
>> Shauna
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