Java Posse #426

The Java Posse

Roundup ‘13 - Teaching and Mentoring

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Special thanks to D.J. Hagberg and Peter Pilgrim for the excellent show notes for this session.

• Creating curruculum on GitHub for examples - short, small

• Coursera

• Pair Programming

• LaTeX Beamer

• Write the code first for examples

• Presentation Patterns - Book

• Herding Racehorses & Racing Sheep - Dave Thomas presentation

• Edward Tufte - separate presentations from a "read-ahead" package

• Ward Cunningham on Federated Wiki - branch to create private Wiki

• ASCII Doctor - create slides/book from text

• Toastmasters

• Spoken Word - Rehearsal, Visualization for public performance

• Have everyone on the team submit talks - and work together on peer support

• Stephen Chin - Night Hacking videos - presentation style

• Scala Koans - good model for workshops

• VMware or VirtualBox images for environment/tool install?

• Energy Level

• Cultural Sensitivity

• Internal Wiki - Confluence? - to close a Learning Tasks, must publish

• Blog Policies, Public Discourse

• Email - it's an Event not a record

• FAQ's: build page based on questions that come in

• Stack Overflow

• Jira: whole team gets emailed on issue updates - used as a team teaching/knowledge transfer tool

• Code Review - not ideal for dissemination, but could be.

• Co-location

• 5-10% time allocated on training/skills development

• Netflix policy: only go to conferences if you are presenting

• Elluminate - Java tool for recording/chatting

• Podcast vs Screencasts

• Android Dev Bytes videos from Chet Haase

• Ignite Videos Technique - automatic advance

• Ask students to do recordings of "what they know" to share with class

• Camtasia

• Screenflow

• Google Hangouts - broadcast/record/archive

• Remote Pairing - Saros Eclipse Plugin

• UStream - record & publish

• ReadyTalk - works on Linux

• Creative Commons Search for images, Flickr CC search - ensure the pictures in your slides have appropriate copyright

• Attribution for content

• JavaScript is Sexy - good example of curriculum

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth

• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect

• Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork

• Theme Music:

• Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),

• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.

• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.

• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg

• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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