Reflection¶
- Author: Richel
- Course: Intermediate Bianca
- Date: 2025-05-23
- Lesson plan
- Evaluation
- Reflection
At the start we did a voting procedure, as I described in the lesson plan. I think this was clear and went well.
Topic | Yes | No | Neutral |
---|---|---|---|
GPU | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Transfer | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Efficient jobs | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Installing | 3 | 0 | 0 |
IDEs | 2 | 0 | 1 |
We decided to keep the schedule and discussed the GPU. A learner suggested to do other stuff wile listening in. We followed that suggestion.
I felt better to remove the initial exercise. BC reminded me to consider doing it, yet I felt it was better at that moment: I felt it not important enough to delay the course even further.
We scheduled 35 minutes for GPU. The session took 17 minutes. I suggested to schedule it at 20 minutes. JY wanted 5 more minutes for questions, hence GPU will now be scheduled at 25 minutes.
- [ ] Schedule GPUs at 25 minutes
My session on 'efficient job' was very interactive.
I started with a Prior, then a Present, then a Challenge.
I used a 4 mins reading session in silence (I told
I would quiz them afterwards), in which
learners were encouraged to turn off their camera
and I promised them to leave them in peace.
The quizzing was useful: a lot of basic questions got
answered. Practicing the exercises (to interpret a
jobstats
plot) together (i.e. each learner thinking
out loud while solving an exercise) felt
useful.
- [ ] Add a second reason why adding CPUs: to prevent a timeout
- [ ] Show Amdahl's Law in the last exercise
At the second exercise, I found a reason why they could not do it (where it worked for me). We were quick to conclude this and I quickly decided to have an earlier break.
Installing from file:
wget https://github.com/ropensci/beautier/archive/refs/tags/v2.6.12.tar.gz
Rscript -e 'install.packages("beautier-2.6.12.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")'
During the course, Bianca broke down. We decided to end earlier. I think this was a good idea. After the evaluation however, there were still 30 minutes spent with questions.