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Upcoming Workshops
Workshop Templates
- This should help keep the class syllabuses consistent
Workshops people can teach
- Suggest workshops you would like to teach. You could also ask for help developing a lesson plan for your topic, or offer to collaborate with another person. When you want to schedule a day for your class, contact Ifny on her talk page, or join/email the education workgroup.
- rcy: emacs, commandline, programming, networking, openbsd, ltsp
- pwalker: python, hacking?
- infil00p: javascript, ruby, C, kernel hacking, hardware
Show and Tell
- Should we have a regular night of show and tell? Maybe two or three items per session? Tell the class about something cool you made, hacked or customized.
- Yes! I'd help get a show and tell going Infil00p 10:58, 17 June 2008 (PDT)
- -Did you want to show & tell something? We could set a date and have, say, 2 or 3 things per evening, from a few different people, with Q&A. Are there days in July or August that work for you? Ifny 12:11, 18 June 2008 (PDT)
- - I have a few show & tell projects that I could bring down to FG (mostly Arduino based, some XO and Wifi). Having a live demo happening would be good. Infil00p 10:40, 25 June 2008 (PDT)
Workshops people want to attend
- Suggest workshops you would like to take. Add ideas for what each workshop could cover or how it could be taught.
Software Workshops
- Suggest sofware workshops you would like to take. Add ideas for what each workshop could cover or how it could be taught.
- Data backups - how to do regular backups, different storage options
- GIMP - Gnu Image Manipulation Program
- How to make a home file server
- Inkscape
- Scribus
- Introduction to Ubuntu - would include introduction to free and open source in general?
- Superbuntu (Advanced Ubuntu)
- Introduction to Wikis: how to make a login, a tour of some wiki sites, basic editing, a bit of practice time
- Pretty Wiki: learning wiki conventions and more advanced formatting like making tables
- Wiki Ninja: setting up your own wiki, including wiki implementation options
- 3D-Art Development: making 3d objects and rendering them for amusement
- Python/GTK: basics of how to make a gui program in Linux. (the actual language is merely a suggestion)
Hardware and Otherware Workshops
- Suggest workshops you would like to take. Add ideas for what each workshop could cover or how it could be taught.
- Touch typing
- Building cool things with Microcontrollers
- Shorthand
- Ham Radio
- How to build a theremin
- Consensus Workshop
- Conflict Resolution
- Anti-Oppression Workshop
Ongoing Workshops
Past Workshops
Past instructors, please feel free to post your curriculum or notes!!
Teaching Tips and Resources
FG Portland Adoption Class Overview
FG Portland Adoption Class Teacher's Outline
Student Resources
- FAQs, online guides, how-tos. Compile information here for student enrichment, reference, and further study.
Workshop Name Conventions
- Perhaps we should start figuring this out now, to save discrepancies later. Something useful and fun would be nice.
Other Technology Educators
- UBC Programming Classes: http://www.tech.ubc.ca/programming/
- BCIT Computing Programs: http://www.bcit.ca/path/computing/programs/
- O'Reilly School of Technology: http://www.oreillyschool.com/
- Coronado Enterprises (Programming Tutorials): http://www.coronadoenterprises.com/
- MIT Open CourseWare : http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#ElectricalEngineeringandComputerScience
