Widening Participation: RCM involvement

[malvikasharan]

Summary Sentence

This issue captures all the resources, notes and tasks for the widening participation - GitHub workshop.

What needs to be done?

• Have a channel for all members involved so they can interact
• Have all resources uploaded here and shared with them
• Create a debriefing notes that can be uploaded here for instructors
• Add all the checklists needed

Who can help?

• @EKaroune @cassgvp @BrainonSilicon @eirini-zormpa @GabinWK

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[BrainonSilicon]

Resources Add

• HackMD with instructions for the Online Facilitators for these sessions
• Master HackMD which those instructions were based on is which was set up for the Git Good workshops which give more context and background
• Slides
• Link to Repo which was set up to be used in the workshop
• Link to Issue used for the first workshop

[BrainonSilicon]

Feedback from Day 1 (of the week)

• don't ask the "room" a question, if you want to prompt engagement and questions ask them to talk to their partner/neighbor first
• interactive exercises are working really well

[BrainonSilicon]

Issue for Session 1

alan-turing-institute/github-introduction#11

What's needed: after each student comments - give them a number (including Malvika who will be # 1) and then add thos numbers to the introduction file

[BrainonSilicon]

information to be added in the HackMD about where to create a new file / which file to edit in for slide's 25 "this is what markdown looks like" example.

[BrainonSilicon]

There is a HDMI cable - in Session 1 Malvika and I are going to switch laptops (so that we are logged into our own GitHub accounts)

[BrainonSilicon]

Feedback

• Flow is good
• explanations are good
  • there's so much info in the powerpoint
• could print off the slides so the students have a hand copy and our value add could be helping with the exercises themselves
• 10 mins (shorter intro) intro to why use github
• adding in some stretch exercises for the ones who are super quick
  • possibly the "fix an issue" task from Git Good
  • could ask them to play around with Markdown (i.e. put an image in a Markdown file)
  • e.g. get them to add a readme to their own repos

Other notes

• new accounts couldn't add a reviewer to the PR
  • suggested fix: online helper either adds people as collaborators to the repo OR we don't mention about tagging a reviewer

[cassgvp]

I have:

• Created the handout for exercise 1 (added into your existing handout doc
• Added a few comments on the handout for exercise 2. There a re a few parts which need updating, and other material we need to include as we're cutting down the "talk" part of the session.
• Updated the online facilitators guide based on what we learnt last time!

to do
@EKaroune

• Cut down slides for part 2 (branching-end)
• update handout for exercise 2 and stretch exercise.
• Compile the slides into a another handout once we've finished editing (after TTW co-working Monday)
• Print, or ask Juliette to print handouts and bring to the session!

[EKaroune]

v2 of the slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jF52VdwujxpOOppmVgKssFvjFmC2YnfitRTzutJiY2Y/edit?usp=sharing