Summary and Schedule
This is a new lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. Building Your Own Carpentries Lesson |
What is Markdown and how do I use it to write lesson content? How do I create a Carpentries-style lesson website using the Workbench template? How do I add and organize episodes in my lesson? How do I work on my lesson locally using GitHub Desktop? |
| Duration: 01h 15m | 2. Additional Readings |
What is data curation and why does it matter for research? What practical steps can I take to keep my data organized and reusable? What are the FAIR principles? How do I publish and share research data at scale? |
| Duration: 01h 55m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.
Day 2 Schedule
| Time | Session | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast | WALC 2051 |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome and Day 2 introduction | WALC 2127 |
| 9:15 AM | Teaching with Geospatial Brainstorming Session | Small group exercise: outline a new geospatial element, exercise, or project for your own class or lab. Prompts provided to guide you. |
| 10:00 AM | Group sharing and feedback | Present your ideas, get input from the group |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee break | WALC 2124 |
| 10:45 AM | Customizing Carpentries Modules for Classroom Use | Markdown basics, tutorial construction, and hands-on module building. On your own: read more about data sharing platforms, FAIR data standards, and metadata practices. |
| 12:00 PM | Closing discussion | Preview of 2027 module development workshop |
| 12:30 PM | Box lunch provided | WALC 2124 |
What You Need for Day 2
Day 2 focuses on designing and building your own teaching modules. The requirements are lighter than Day 1 — no GIS software or data accounts needed.
Software
- GitHub Desktop — for cloning and pushing lesson repositories without using the command line → Download here
- A text editor — for editing Markdown files locally. Any of the following will work:
Accounts
- GitHub — you will create a lesson repository and host it on GitHub Pages → Sign up here if you do not have an account
Preparation
- Morning session (9:15 AM): Think about a course, lab, or project you teach (or plan to teach) that could benefit from a geospatial component. You will work in small groups to outline a module, so having a specific class in mind will help.
- Afternoon session (10:45 AM): If you are new to Markdown, a quick glance at markdownguide.org/basic-syntax beforehand is helpful but not required — we will cover the basics during the session.