Suggestion for online review activity

[PhilReedData]

Today, @emcaulay and I delivered LC Git online. We came up with a version of the episode 4 lesson review activity which worked well for people in a Zoom call. I created a blank Google Jamboard and shared the link. We then asked people to recall the commands and concepts they had used. We created a green note for the Shell commands and yellow notes for the Git commands. We then asked people to explain what the commands meant (type reply in the Zoom chat), sometimes suggesting a concept and asking them to pick the command. We then got more advanced by introducing the Git staging area and repositories, adding background shapes and arrows. We asked them to try creating their own visualization again afterwards however they wished. This worked really well, better than putting them in breakout rooms and asking them to draw online without supervision.

Perhaps you could add it to the instructor notes page? Or to the episode page itself, as an alternative activity for online teaching?

[emcaulay]

Hi @PhilReedData , I observed you teach this lesson, and I agree it was very effective. Given that many workshops will be taught online, I think this is a good option to add to the episode. I will attempt to make a draft of the episode that offers that approach for online teaching.

[jas58]

This sounds brilliant! I would be excited to schedule a collaborating session to help with this, too.