Open House where we discuss and prepare for online teaching

Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/152239500

List of good resources:

• about teaching

  • https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/06/remote-workshop-cape-town.html
  • https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T3373743b7b6f00cd/input-needed-tips-for-teaching-and-learning-online-by-the-carpentries-community
  • https://youtu.be/MzsJyOkxqv8 (it's a 45min webinar about teaching Software Carpentry exclusively online, from an instructor with lots of experience in Australia)
  • Tips for Teaching Online from The Carpentries Community

• about tools

  • https://zoom.us/webinar
  • https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/dcewebconf/files/zoomadvancedtrainingv2.4forsite.pdf
  • https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206476093-Getting-Started-with-Breakout-Rooms
  • https://sciencetogether.github.io/tools/
  • Upload shell history in real time to a google document: https://github.com/Sabryr/Teaching-aids

• events

  • https://hackmd.io/@jduckles/collaborative-meetings-workshop (this afternoon: https://twitter.com/abbycabs/status/1240800467019595776)
  • https://twitter.com/jduckles/status/1237474315580235776
  • https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T19273d8aadd8d57f/is-covid-19-virus-demanding-alternative-software-carpentry-workshop-delivery-options

Technical issues (and solutions?):

• Participants who are no longer in the same physical room can be on networks with varying quality.

Zoom features you may not have known about:

• Whiteboard
• Remote control
• Host can probably enable feedback features (to signal "slower"/"faster"/…)
• Break-out rooms
• Change of background;could be tried for signaling, pink for "stalled", green for "continue".
• Non-verbal communication function including "raise hand", "thumb up/down",green(go)/red(stop) signals, etc. (attendee opens "attendee" pane and raise hands)

Plan for Linux Shell course:

• CodeRefinery advertises if a few other helpers can show up
• Via Zoom
• Ensure that we have the "raise hand", "go faster", etc options.
• Which commands are actually part of Git Bash?

Prior to any course: send the participants and email with a Zoom tutorial on how to use some features like raise hand,…

Ideas

• Better cross-promotion of each other's online training (this will get out of hand… communications manager?)

Plan for today:

• Preparation for next online Bash course (https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/shell-scripting.html)
  • Anne
• Identify "chunks" in current lesson material that can be turned into 1-3 hour zoom and twitch sessions
  • Radovan
• Preparation for next Open house (teaching exercices, etc.)
  • Anne (afternoon)
• After 4 pm CET follow/participate in Abby's session (https://twitter.com/abbycabs/status/1240800467019595776)
  • Radovan
  • Thor
• Create guide for online training under https://github.com/coderefinery/manuals
  • Thor
  • draft PR: https://github.com/coderefinery/manuals/pull/47

How can we turn present CR material into online training

• Git intro is a good starting point but we chop it into 3 sessions (each few days apart?)
  • Single-branch workflow
  • Branching, merging, conflict resolution
  • History inspection
  • Sharing repositories, remotes
  • Collaborative Git
  • Automated testing
  • Making code citable
  • Git branch design
  • Social coding and software licensing
  • Building documentation with Sphinx
  • GitHub pages
  • Sharing Jupyter notebooks
  • Reproducible environments with Docker/Singularity
  • Snakemake
  • Conda
• Twitch-session on particular topics
  • How we do code review
  • Modularization/refactoring of code
  • Implementing an automated test
  • How to clean up messy history
  • How we work with Docker

Things to prepare and practice for online training

• Roles (suggestion):
  • instructor focuses on delivering the lesson
  • one person should observe the chat and signaling from the participants, give feedback to the instructor, maybe organize breakout rooms
  • helpers start breakout rooms with participants that raise their hands
• Technical challenges:
  • chat window on zoom can be too small so perhaps we need to provide zoom and a parallel chat solution
  • backchannel to instructor: chat, and it can be public. audio feedback could be confusing

Follow up-steps

• Advertise Aalto shell course through CR? No public advertisement yet but we can give the info to personal contacts. But inform registrants of cancelled software carpentry course.
• Anne will go through the shell lesson and give feedback on what commands work in Git Bash and which don't
• We dedicate next open house (March 24) to a dry-run of online Git-intro lesson
• Should we add the list of resources to the manuals (which Thor started?)

Experimenting with Zoom features

• We created a breakout room and the host went into one of the breakout rooms but with this lost being host and another meeting participant became the host
• Before the host goes to a breakout room, the host should transfer ownership to somebody otherwise ownership goes to person next in line (?)
• Host ownership can be transferred (can be done in attendee list)
• We should create breakoutroom before the lesson, make sure we have enough. Seems we cannot add more.
• Make host (moderator) separate from speaker
• We need 3 roles: speaker/instructor, helper (helpers are co-hosts), host
• Sharing screen can change keyboard layout (maybe only happens with xmonad)
• As co-host if you are in a breakout room you can join other breakout rooms
• It can be useful if helpers help out with assigning persons to rooms (can be a challenge for instructor to balance this while also running the session)
• It is possible to annotate whiteboards (so one person can draw on top of another person's drawing)