May 6 - 11, 2015: Lesson Prep for Publication, Capturing Instructors' Commands, and Instructor Debriefing.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights

• 15 people in 5 countries are preparing the Software Carpentry lessons for publication.

Instructor Tips

• Do you find that participants fall behind during Software Carpentry workshops because they can't follow commands entered into the terminal? You can use redirect and Dropbox to create a live document for participants to follow.

Details

• The latest instructor debriefing is now available and provides great advice. Capturing the instructor's shell, preparing answers for challenges, and using example scripts to model complexity.
• Congratulations to all Software Carpenters who qualified as instructors last week!
• Four workshops were run this week: Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology, University of South Florida - College of Marine Science.
• Several workshops have been confirmed for the next few months. Upcoming workshops can be viewed on our website. Newly added workshops are indicated with "*".
• May: University of New Mexico, Western University, Boston University School of Medicine*, Stellenbosch University, University of Oklahoma Libraries, University of Melbourne, Oklahoma State Universtiy
• June: University of Cambridge, Materials Physics Center - University of the Basque Country, California Institute of Technology*, University of Washington*
• July: The University of Queensland, SciPy 2015, West Vancouver Memorial Library*, The University of Queensland - AMOS sciences, SAP Offices in Feltham, University of Cape Town*, Curtin University*

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