Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce that the registration is now open for the CWL Lesson Hackathon that is organised by ELIXIR-NL.

The hackathon will take place on March 22 and March 23, from 13-17 CET.

More information can be found further in this mail and also here: https://github.com/common-workflow-lab/cwl-novice-tutorial/wiki/2021-Lesson-Hackathon

Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeniSgVCCUIAzPVey-uWcEBV0XAJWkf3CSa2LI-wREQu2bg6Q/viewform

Organizing Committee: Michael R. Crusoe, Fotis Psomopoulos, Renato Alves, Toby Hodges, Hervé Ménager, Peter van Heusden, Celia van Gelder

Introduction

In the CWL community a lot of efforts have been made to set up lesson materials.  Previous work consists of establishing episodes, learning objectives  and learner profiles.  In this CWL lesson hackathon we intend to build on that work and make significant steps towards creating CWL lessons that can be (re-) used by the CWL community and others who need to train in CWL. The newly developed lessons will be first used in two upcoming CWL courses in 2021 (by ELIXIR-GR and ELIXIR-NL).

Audience & prerequisite knowledge

Participants in this lesson hackathon are expected to have some familiarity either with workflows (with CWL being the case in study), and/or training / lesson development / pedagogical aspects.

The lesson hackathon itself will be structured into parallel development sessions, and therefore complementary experiences will be particularly useful to address the challenges and exercises of the lesson, and create balanced teams. Finally, it is important to note that the hackathon is open to any contributors, and not limited only to the ELIXIR network.

Programme

Day 1, March 22, 2021, 13-17 CET

13.00: Welcome and introduction (Michael Crusoe)

• Starting point: what is in place: Episodes/lessons, Exercises, Learning outcomes (sketched), Learner profiles (complete)

• Plan of approach for the hackathon

• Not making new episodes/lessons; finishing the existing episodes/lessons; Making exercises

• Expectations of organiser and expectations of participants

• Divide in groups for the breakouts (per lesson)

13:30  Hacking in breakouts (3 hours)
Facilitators will rotate as need be

• Write exercises

• Send Pull Requests

• When exercises are finished, write teaching material

• Review PRs from other groups

• Summarize results for reporting in the Wrap-up session

16.30  Wrap up

• Each group reports back about what has been done and plans for Day 2.
  
  

17.00 Closing

Day 2, March 23, 2021, 10-13  CET (optional)  & 13-17 CET

9.00 - 13.00 No formal sessions. Optional hours are up to each individual; Toby Hodges and Michael R. Crusoe will be available starting from 09:00 Central European Time

13.00: Quick recap of Day 1 plus reshuffling of groups if needed/wanted

13.15: Hacking in breakouts; Facilitators will rotate as need be

• Write exercises

• Send Pull Requests

• When exercises are finished, write teaching material

• Review PRs from other groups

• Summarize results for reporting in the Wrap-up session

16.00  Wrap up

• Each group reports back about what has been done and plans for Day 2.
  
  

16.30 Next steps after the lesson hackathon

17.00 Closing

We hope to see many of you at the Lesson Hackathon!

Best regards,

Celia, on behalf of the Organizing Committee