[OSCTC-planning] schools to contact for this fall

[sheila miguez]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mallory Lim Chua <chuam at purdue.edu> wrote:

> > I don't know if there is a large enough pool of volunteers with
> experience to run things at the same time.
>
> ...#3 relies on teaching teams being independent enough to run -- well,
> independently. Either because they're doing something super-simple, because
> you have really well-scaffolded materials, or because you have
> super-skilled teachers (super-skilled relative to the complexity of the
> teaching tasks they're doing, so that they can handle any contingencies
> that pop up on their own). This isn't bad -- it's actually really easy if
> you just scope the teaching tasks to be simple, and provide the necessary
> resources -- but it takes deliberate planning.


I've been trying to be very pushy with people from software-carpentry and
numfocus to get them excited about osctc and OpenHatch affiliated events in
general. so much so that I hope I am not being annoying with my
obessiveness!

But, it does seem to me that there is a lot of cross over in the expertise
needed from the volunteers as well as some of the same skills being taught!
So I really hope people consider recruiting from those folks.

... and food for thought,
http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/iuse-proposal-rejected.html

We got word a few days ago that our proposal to the NSF's Improving
> Undergraduate STEM Education
> <https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504976> program had
> been rejected. The panel summary agreed that software training is a good
> idea, but were not convinced about our plans to shift from training grad
> students to undergrads. In particular, they were not convinced that
> Unix-based workshops would be best for undergrads, and felt that not being
> embedded in the regular curriculum was a weakness. These are fair
> criticisms: [...]
>



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shekay at pobox.com
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