[Campus-neiu-staff] switching the git activity

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:37 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> Hi Shauna, I'll try and walk through this tonight. I was wondering if I
> could focus more on this and less on Oppia? I want to spend more time being
> good at explaining git and helping people with it. I know much more about
> git than Oppia. On the other hand, maybe project time is more important so
> I can stick with that (or help with mediagoblin instead?).
>
> The reason I like mediagoblin aside from how much I agree with the
> principles is that it has a strong local contingent and Chris visits
> Chicago a lot! This is cool. I wan't people to be encouraged to work on
> things where local people get involved.
>
>
I wouldn't mind you focusing on git and/or MediaGoblin, but at this point
it's a little late to substitute someone else in to pair with Oppia.  I
want to stress that it's not necessary for you to be an expert.  Your role
is more social: to lead the small group so that students who want to work
on the project can get together, to ask people if they need help, and to
help them find Sean on IRC.  (A lot of students will get stuck and not ask,
even if they've been told who their mentor is on IRC.)  It sounds trivial
but it's actually really important in terms of helping students connect.




>
> On Thu, 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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