[OSCTC-planning] Thought about helping OSCTC presenters prepare

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

I like this idea a lot.  We could try to throw something together before
this weekend, although unfortunately I'm travelling the next few days so
that would be difficult.  Asheesh, could you lead something like this on
Weds or Thurs?  I could try to be there as well but I can't promise I won't
get stuck in traffic somewhere.  Regardless, this is definitely something
to do before the November events.

Asheesh and I have talked about building up a 'train the trainers' type
program.  That may take a little while to figure out but the minimal
working version described here seems easy and useful to achieve.

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Shauna & all, here's a thought I had about helping the local teams who are
> delivering OSCTC material to the audience prepare.
>
> I'm assuming the following, which I believe is true!
>
> When OSCTC events happen, we usually encourage non-core OpenHatch people
> to deliver the curriculum at
> https://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/index.html
>
>
>
> Here's my suggestion, and some explanation -- maybe we already do this, if
> so, sorry about the noise!
>
> To help instructors prepare to give a lecture (for example, "Communication
> tools" at
> https://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/index.html
> ), we could *strongly strongly* encourage the instructor to (1) work
> through the "self-guided" version of each presentation by themselves, and
> then (2) schedule a time to show up to IRC and ask us any questions they
> have. (In fact, we could do this way before an event, thereby seeding good
> instructors in different areas of the country/world, so that event
> logistics is separate from curriculum prep logistics.) As a bonus (3), we
> could then keep a list of people who we feel are successfully trained on
> each curriculum module.
>
>
> Background/rationale:
>
> At CCSF, I gave the full set of lectures, and I'm pretty familiar with the
> content and how it's divvied up, but I realize now that if I had done this,
> I would have been even more well-prepared, and I would have had an even
> better understanding of how the content is divvied up. I don't know why
> using the self-driven versions as prep didn't occur to me while I was
> prepping, but it didn't, so maybe it wouldn't occur to other instructors.
> (I prepped by using the non-self-driven ones.) I imagine that someone new
> to any curriculum module would find this a really useful way to orient
> themselves.
>
> Reading through the "self-driven" part is less technically complex than
> reading the presenter notes, which involves managing two browser windows
> which can be weird at first.
>
> Also, I was revisiting the "self-driven" version of different curriculum
> parts, and was just really pleased by what I saw, and so I wondered if
> there were more ways we could help make that material useful!
>
> If Shauna doesn't have time to be the one doing lots of Q&A with
> prospective instructors, we can probably find other people (on this list,
> perhaps!) who are interested in doing that. I imagine lots of people would
> find that to be a fun use of time.
>
> Curious what y'all think,
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
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