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Observable Educator's
Network Gathering

Meetup Recap: Sept 27, 2022

Courtney Francis, host
Community Manager for Education, Observable
courtney@observablehq.com

featuring
Philip Bogden
Assistant Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
@pbogden

Mark McClure
Professor of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Asheville
@mcmcclur

`32:T44f,**Are you using Observable for teaching and learning, research, or education administration? Join us!** We're hosting a brief "state of the EDUnion" and discussion to update the community on the resources, programs, projects, and events available to anyone using Observable in education. We'll hear from educators Philip Bogden, professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, and Mark McClure, professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina Asheville, about using Observable in the classroom. This is a chance to contribute to the growth of the Observable community. We'll help you find collaborators and allies in the education community who are focused on work similar to yours, and we want to hear what tools and additional support Observable could support you. **Are you using Observable for education projects we haven't even considered? It's possible!** Every voice matters in the development of this community and we LOVE to hear about new and creative projects. Works-in-progress, impossible challenges, and curious tinkering are welcome here.33:Ta3f,

Event Resources!

Tools for using Observable in the Classroom

Instructional Resources

Mike Bostock's Three Little Circles - using a static post as a springboard for a classroom exercise
Three Little Circles Revisited in Observable
Brushable Earthquakes - exercise with an increased level of complexity
Observable Embedded - Mark McClure's methods for embedding Observable for instruction.
Reveal.js used to create an automatic slide show in the resource above - Hello Reveal.js notebook from user [Alok Pepakayala]
Observable-Jupyter Documentation
Altair - a suggested alternative to Jupyter Notebooks

Submission and grading

To submit static versions of assignments, open the sidebar with the icon, select the version, and copy-paste that URL.
Grading tool using assertions created by Jo Wood, allows you to compare a cell with an expected answer.
Grading tool created by Mike Freeman. Here is the tool is in practice.

Student Work

Example of student project created with Observable by Philip Bogden's class for the City of Portland, ME

Other Resources

"Cut the tyranny of copy-and-paste with these coding tools," Nature, Feb 2022
EuroVis 2014: Capstone: The Value of Visualization…and Why Interaction Matters, recommended talk by John Stasko on sharing faculty salaries using visualization.

Sept 27, 2022 Recap | Edu Network Gathering

Observable Educator'sNetwork Gathering

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Observable Educator's
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