Adrien Joly - Teaching

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2020-2021

• Back-end / API development with Node.js at EEMI and ESGI (Paris, France)

Pedagogical Tools I Use

Here is a list of tools I regularly use for teaching classes and assessing the understanding of my students:

• Markdown + Jekyll on GitHub Pages: I write my course material (i.e. mostly guided exercises) in Markdown format and publish it with GitHub Pages. (free)
• Repl.it: I use this free online IDE to quickly write, re-format, run and share JavaScript programs to my students.
• Codingame: I use this free online server to make my students collaborate on solving algorithmic problems together, by mob programming in the classroom. It’s also a fun way to train individually.
• Straw Poll: to regularly poll the progress of students on the exercises I gave them. It helps me decide when it’s most helpful to provide more tips on how to solve a particular exercice, to prevent students from being stuck for too long. Especially useful for remote classes.
• Google Forms: to create small quizzes (i.e. mostly at the end of each class) and quickly gather scores and results from students. This helps me determine which topic needs to be re-explained to my students.
• Survey Response Browser: to generate a PDF file that contains the assignments submitted by all my students on Google Forms, so I can review, annotate and return their responses using my iPad. (e.g. thanks to PDF Master)
• classroom-submissions-to-pdf: to generate a PDF file that contains the code submitted by all my students on a Google Classroom assignment, so I can review and annotate it on my iPad. (see video demo: How to evaluate students’ code by hand, and without paper - YouTube)
• gclass: a CLI to quickly collect the URLs submitted by my students through Google Classroom assignments, and store them in a flat text file, for batch processing.
• énoncé: a static web page to display a Markdown-formatted exercise/exam statement, with subtle variants for each student who accesses it, to help detect plagiarism.
• js-test: to give auto-graded exercises or exams (including coding exercises) to my students. I wrote this open-source toolkit to help me design exercises and auto-grading scripts, deploy them online, gather answers from students and generate a graded feedback sheets that I return to students. (see video demos: 🇫🇷 Évaluer efficacement ses étudiants - YouTube)
• GitHub private repositories: I maintain several private repositories in GitHub, to keep the exams I gave to all my students, and their solutions.
• Google Classroom is a platform that one of the schools where I teach has been using to create a virtual space for each classroom, to support communication between students and teachers and to submit assignments.

Also check out this living document: js-test competitors & alternatives (for reference) · Issue #61 · adrienjoly/js-test

Past interventions

2019-2020

• Back-end development with Node.js (32h), at EEMI and ESGI (Paris, France), mostly given from home, because of COVID-19 lockdown.

2018-2019

• Use of git for collaborative and open source projects (4h), at EEMI (Paris, France)
• Tech leadership (lead dev) (18h) at La Web School Factory (Paris, France)

2015-2018

Between October 2015 and June 2018, I was giving a Web Programming Basics with JavaScript course (~40 hours) to 4 classes of 1st-year students, at EEMI (Paris, France).

• Course material: Cours JavaScript
• My learnings, as a teacher: Enseigner le développement web à 85 étudiants sans s’arracher les cheveux (French)

Last update was October 31st, 2020. History

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