Curriculum specific notes

Introduction

These notes are intended to record suggestions on how best to teach particular courses.

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Data Carpentry

Genomics workshop

• HiperGator introduction was very off-topic, too much information and very advanced for where the students were
  • Could be done by a Carpentries instructor
  • But it was useful to have someone from HiperGator who could reset passwords and suchlike
• Do not switch the lessons around
  • Recommend that instructors start by teaching the shell, then moving onto the cloud-based stuff
  • In this lesson, they tried doing the cloud-based stuff first, which confused people
• Table/chair organization
  • Tables/chairs originally set up in a U-shape, which wasn't great. On day 2, they moved them into rows, which was much better.

Geospatial workshop

• Detailed notes are available at https://github.com/UF-Carpentry/geospatial-pilot-notes