Shiny Train-the-Trainer

The following is the tentative outline for Shiny Train-the-Trainer workshop at rstudio::conf 2019.

• 09:00–09:45 - Starting a workshop

  • Let them eat cake (first)
  • How to pick content, and adjust to workshop focus/level to audience
  • Hands on: Pair up and run an impromptu first 5 mins of worksop with your favourite go to app

• 09:45-10:30 - Content outline

  • Writing learning objectives
  • What to cover if you have
    • 1 hour
    • 2 hours
    • half day
    • full day
    • 2 days
  • Sample curricula
  • Hands on: Write learning objectives for one of the time periods, one you're most likely to teach

• 10:30–11:00 - Break

• 11:00–11:45 - Content delivery and computing environment

  • Slides: R Markdown vs. Keynote vs. something else
  • Code to deliver: GitHub, Dropbox, etc.
  • Livecoding and RStudio setup
  • Computing environment, RStudio Cloud
  • Hands on: Set up an RStudio Cloud workspace, place your favourite app, invite partner

• 12:30–14:00 - Lunch

• 14:00–14:45 - Hands on

  • Writing good exercises
  • Planning exercises at various levels
  • Timing:
    • How to plan your time
    • How to end gracefully if you run out of time
    • How to end gracefully if you're done earlier than expected
  • Hands on: Give one exercise, ask for a lower and a higher complexity level version

• 14:45-15:30 - Roads less travelled - teaching the challenging bits

  • Testing and debugging
    • Writing a Shiny "reprex"
    • Using the reactlog
  • Deployment options: how much you can realistically teach about them
  • Making a performant Shiny app + where to find resources on this

• 15:30–16:00 - Break

• 16:00–16:45 - Prep teaching demo

• 16:45-17:30 - Do teaching demo