Session 2: Tools and techniques adopted in CodeRefinery workshops

[samumantha]

Issue to discuss the full session 2. Please use new issues for single episode discussions and assignments to indicate that you are working on something.

Preliminary learning objectives:

• Understand the general structure of CodeRefinery workshops and why it is the way it is
• Get to know the different roles of a workshop and which ones are the most essential ones
• Understand the importance of installation instructions and how they contribute to learners
• Understand the importance of onboarding and a welcoming community for volunteers in a workshop
• Be able to provide a highly interactive online workshop environment with collaborative documents
• Be aware of the importance of a well planned screenshare and sound quality

Initial schedule suggestion:

• 45 min: workshop overview, roles, onboarding/installation, helpers
• 45 min: collaborative doc/interaction ( + usage during whole workshop)
• 45 min: screenshare & sound
• ~30 min for intro and free to distribute where needed (co-teaching episode moved to session 3)

Instructor interests and materials documents

• overview.md & onboarding.md (workshop overview, roles, onboarding/installation, helpers): @dhanyapushpadas , @samumantha , @rkdarst , @stepas-toliautas
• screenshare.md: @blindij , @rkdarst , @bast , @HaoZeke
• sound.md : @rkdarst , @dhanyapushpadas , @HaoZeke
• collaborative_notes.md: @dianaiusan , @blindij , @bast , @HaoZeke
• @linguist89 ?

Host for this session: @samumantha
Coordinatior for this session: @bast

[bast]

I will coordinate the Aug 20 session (this session). My first goal will be to assign a lead on each of the 4-5 episodes and the lead will draft the first version of each episode. I will also draft one of those.

To lower the notification noise, I will reach out to people individually and then summarize here. Based on the feedback from potential instructors and co-instructors I will create a more detailed schedule and help preparing the episode pages.

[bast]

Persons who will write first draft (thanks so much for your email replies!):

• overview.md: Samantha
• onboarding.md: Samantha
• co-teaching.md: Stepas
• screenshare.md: Radovan
• sound.md: Richard
• collaborative_notes.md: Bjørn

Please don't hesitate to ask for help if unclear where/how
and don't hesitate to indicate if you don't have time
to draft and would prefer if someone else did it.

[samumantha]

Onboarding and overview drafts started on overview branch;
Happy to discuss content and especially also exercises discussions in #86 and #87 :)

[samumantha]

co-teaching moved to session 3; which leaves some more time for other stuff here, we need some time for intro in the morning, but if nothing else comes to mind we could do a fun session where we talk about icebreakers (in collaborative doc vs in person vs online) and have participants do or come up with some?

[bast]

I like the idea! Discussing ice-breakers and how to set the stage and get participants settled into the event.

[samumantha]

-> added an issue for this: #110

[bast]

Timing suggestion added to https://coderefinery.github.io/train-the-trainer/guide/#timing

[samumantha]

Thinking out loud: CodeRefinery project info (https://coderefinery.github.io/train-the-trainer/CodeRefinery_intro/) could be "read before joining"? + Q&A section in notes about it?

Icebreaker could be discussed as part of the icebreaker and intro session?

[samumantha]

Working on overview and onboarding here: #130

[samumantha]

Questions to discuss in call on Friday:

• Any prerequisites that we need to inform participants about beforehand? Any background knowledge that would make it easier to follow?
• Timings ok?

[bast]

Instructor line-up:

• Intro: SW
• About CR workshops: SW+RD
• Collaborative notes: BL+RB
• CR project and workshop from different perspectives: SW+RD
• Sound: RD+RB
• Screenshare: RB+BL
• Outro: SW

[bast]

Done 🎈