Round 4.3/4.4: Making Videos

May 14, 2013 • Greg Wilson

Meeting of the Software Carpentry Instructors Study Group
Round 4.3/4.4
May 8/9, 2013

Agenda

  • How “science-y” did you think this research was?
  • Would you approve it if it was sent to you for peer review?
  • What did you read that you didn’t believe?
  • What (if anything) are you going to change in your own working practice?
  • What (if anything) are you going to teach?
  • How should the picture superiority effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_superiority_effect) affect your slides?
  • See Making Software for more (and more recent) research

Next Round

We are moving our next meeting up a day to accommodate our Australian friends (or having a third meeting—we’ll figure it out next week). To prepare:

Notes from discussion

  • Code review:
    • Setup projector, grade code never seen, and do review in front of audience
    • let them see “how” you do the review.
    • Will that enocurage them to do more reviews themeselves?
  • Teach to read before you write?
    • No! If you want to learn, you need to be committed.
    • Students more attentive when doing a task that is useful to them
  • Presentations
    • more effective when you combine text with images
    • lots of text = redundant information
    • reduce cognitive load
    • more text needed when it’s standalone
    • having only images on a slide makes me present better, since I have nothing to read off of, and thus need to know what I’m saying
  • Feedback
    • video: great medium for getting feedbacking about teaching technique
    • YouTube used to solocit feedback (musicians, and teachers)
    • emphasis on “how you teach” not “what you teach”