{"id":1303,"date":"2019-02-19T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:21:42","slug":"teaching-with-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/education\/teaching-with-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching with GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several of my courses could benefit from a unit on GitHub. I want to devise a series of lessons that could be plugged into any of these courses with only a slight amount of modification specific to the actual course. It&#8217;s easy to identify the aspects of GitHub that I want to cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>version control<\/li><li>code sharing<\/li><li>issue tracking<\/li><li>project management<\/li><li>public and private repositories<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want to start out course planning from a content coverage perspective. Increasingly, I&#8217;m trying to adopt an approach learned from <a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/guides-sub-pages\/understanding-by-design\/\">Understanding by Design<\/a>. It&#8217;s an approach that most closely mirrors my own approach towards my work and even my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning I jotted down several questions on a legal pad. I revised these into two essential questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>What workflow is most supportive of collaborative development?<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>How can my choice of work methods enhance my productivity?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These questions place GitHub within the context of productive workflows, which explain why we&#8217;re even thinking of talking about it in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting organized is the first task for any development project, but in teaching coding, the introduction of GitHub is not the first step to learn. In helping students understand HTML\/CSS, introducing GitHub too early could add a huge layer of confusion. I like for students to understand the simplicity of the web before they understand tools for enhancing productivity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my courses could benefit from a unit on GitHub. I want to devise a series of lessons that could be plugged into any of these courses with only a slight amount of modification specific to the actual course. It&#8217;s easy to identify the aspects of GitHub that I want to cover: version control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}