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Teach Better

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Teach Better Geoffrey Grosenbach VP of Open Source Developer Content

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How to Apply Styling Cream ⏱ ✋ ☻

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• Key Concepts • Memorable • Action/Verification • From Experience Why Does This Work?

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Beginning

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⏰ The first 60 seconds

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http://hello.processing.org/editor

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Explanatory Patterns • Problem • Solution • Before • After

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Kinds of Documentation • API • Terminology • Step by Step • Concepts • Tips

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Explain concepts in the context of a hands on demo. ! Avoid an hour of lecture, hour of lab.

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• Restaurant orders by table • Music player • Task list with duration or tags • Project management app • Calendar What Makes a Good Demo Project? ⏱ • Data • Application • Apple pie recipe • Cupcake factory inventory • List of cities for a trip • Catalog of books or movies • Pluralsight API

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Datatypes • Events • Input • Progression of Concepts Too Complex • Hacks • Impractical • Fragile

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Explanatory Patterns • Problem/Solution • Action/Result • Before/After • Bad/Good • Good/Better/Best • Compare/Contrast • Analogy • Timeline

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“A good exam covers a range of concepts from easy to moderate to difficult. ! An exam that covers a range of concepts will naturally include concepts that span a range of difficulties.”

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The 9 Principles of Immediately Effective Instruction • Most critical items • Repeat • Single stream • Experience the problem • Overarching narrative • Eliminate • Impact, sparingly • Small collections • Short cycles https://authors.pluralsight.com/course-design-guidelines/

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“I spent weeks trying to understand Ember.js but it all clicked when I watched your course.”

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