tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post3006373437067287275..comments2024-03-28T04:04:55.806-07:00Comments on Faculty of Language: A sort-of BS follow-up: Alternatives to LMSNorberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15701059232144474269noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-47533226005889091982018-08-25T07:05:51.801-07:002018-08-25T07:05:51.801-07:00@Thomas Regarding wikis, I've had programming ...@Thomas Regarding wikis, I've had programming courses in the past whose websites contained a lot of miscellaneous reference pages in plain HTML: setup information, how-tos, coding style examples, and so on. I imagine a wiki might add a bit of convenience in organizing all of this.Kennethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05863906220463951191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-42935713153743489172018-08-25T06:52:36.297-07:002018-08-25T06:52:36.297-07:00I've never used Jupyter notebooks either, thou...I've never used Jupyter notebooks either, though I've been meaning to try them out. I can see what the slides were getting at, but I don't know how relevant the issues are to the current topic.Kennethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05863906220463951191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-60551875259753877622018-08-24T19:42:33.176-07:002018-08-24T19:42:33.176-07:00@Kenneth, @Thomas: I suspect you two might find so...@Kenneth, @Thomas: I suspect you two might find some of the discussion in the slides that are linked to in this <a href="https://twitter.com/joelgrus/status/1033035196428378113" rel="nofollow">tweet</a> interesting. I have no experience with Jupyter, so I'm not totally sure what to make of the points raised in those slides, but I found most of them interesting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14613154152690142744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-44387293376114668312018-08-14T14:46:09.997-07:002018-08-14T14:46:09.997-07:00Thanks for this post; there are a number of intere...Thanks for this post; there are a number of interesting ideas here I hadn't thought of. My interactive/code-sharing needs are a lot less extensive than some of the things you mention here. But I did want to endorse simply setting up plain html pages for courses and abandoning the LMS sites (or limiting them to linking to the html page). I finally took this step this week (and set up gmail groups for class emails). It took about an hour and a half per class (and that will be a lot less when I teach these classes again), and I already feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Jonah Katzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18314148501319660077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-20076348809776027372018-08-14T08:38:37.014-07:002018-08-14T08:38:37.014-07:00For my own courses I like the students to be expos...For my own courses I like the students to be exposed to the github interface, it's part of the learning experience. But those are grad-level compling courses. In general, you are completely right, though, github is an easy way to host websites, be it for a course, a workshop, or your personal website. They even support custom domain names.<br /><br />The github wiki I couldn't find a good use for. For a while I had students write group summaries of the assigned reading and upload them to the wiki. But the wiki isn't set up for collaborative writing in the web interface, so students would end up overwriting each other's changes. You can clone the wiki as a separate repository and then use git to resolve merge conflicts, but that's too much for an inexperienced student in week 2 of the semester. My lecture notes are too much like a textbook to fit the heavily interlinked style of a wiki. What else is there? A glossary? Syllabus? Git tutorial?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07629445838597321588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275657281509261156.post-91904552465457055072018-08-14T02:05:30.901-07:002018-08-14T02:05:30.901-07:00I really like the idea of using GitHub for course ...I really like the idea of using GitHub for course sites and materials!<br /><br />I wonder if you could take this a step further using GitHub Pages to make a nice homepage hiding the GitHub interface and cryptic "README.md", as well avoiding the need scroll down past the repository contents to see the actual page. I've used GitHub Pages for hosting a simple Jekyll site, but it looks like plain Markdown should work as well.<br /><br />Also, I think it's worth emphasizing the fact that GitHub will automatically render (Github's dialect of) Markdown to HTML for viewing, whether in the form of a GitHub Pages site or a simple ".md" file in a repository. So if you only use Markdown for webpages, no conversion is necessary.<br /><br />A further thought: Github repositories also have an optional wiki attached. No need to host your own or use a separate wiki hosting site.Kennethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05863906220463951191noreply@blogger.com