Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread Marvin M. Doyley
Thanks John, I am sure this will be better than blackboard. I will give it a try :) Cheers M Sent from my iPhone ** May contain typos** > On Dec 20, 2014, at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > > All of the code is here: > https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela > > and there is some

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread briangpowell .
* Wow! Thanks for posting this topic and your techela. * Suggest an "Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" and OrgMode be everyone's first, and maybe last, required course in grade school--other than Reading, Writing and Arithmetic of course! * Suggest all students download this free book a

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread Evan Misshula
I am going to try this semester also. Thanks for paving the way. :-) On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:48 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > All of the code is here: > https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela > > and there is some documentation in the README. > > I am not sure how much work it woul

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread John Kitchin
All of the code is here: https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/tree/master/techela and there is some documentation in the README. I am not sure how much work it would take to try it yourself though. You need to setup a gitolite server (that is described in the README), and more importantly figure out

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-20 Thread Marvin M. Doyley
Very cool indeed. I would love to try this for a small course that I will be teaching in the spring semester. Is your code available? Cheers, M Sent from my iPad

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-19 Thread John Kitchin
I put a screencast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUCiF2MwP4&feature=youtu.be&a if you would like to see some of what this was like. John Kitchin writes: > Hi all, > > I wrote a blog post > (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/12/18/org-mode-+-Python-+-git-in-a-graduate-engineering

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-19 Thread John Kitchin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Doug Lewan wrote: > Vry cool. > > Could we get some background information? > Sure. I put a screen cast up here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUCiF2MwP4 in case you want to see what it looks like. > How much time did it take to get all the elements coor

Re: [O] org-mode in teaching

2014-12-19 Thread Doug Lewan
Vry cool. Could we get some background information? How much time did it take to get all the elements coordinated and running properly? Was any piece particularly easy? Natural? Difficult? Were the grade reports assignment-specific or cumulative? Did the grading work for the entire cours