The format of the course material
We have elected to write our course material in Markdown.
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Do you know what markdown is?
- G = Yes.
- R = No.
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NB If there are any "No's" you have to explain markdown...
The following may help:
HTML is simply text with tags in it.
Demo:
<h1>A Heading</h1>
<p>Paragraph text
Your browser parses the text and then renders it appropriately. But all those tags are a pain to type. Hence markdown: the lazy way of generating HTML. You write:
#A heading
Paragraph text
And feed it into an engine, and out comes beautifully formed HTML.
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Open the following sites in tabs:
- http://tinyurl.com/ResOsLd
G = I'm ready to proceed.
- R = What: there is no such site!
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Pair up!
And see if you can produce the following well turned out html in the live demo site...
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This is a heading
Followed by a paragraph
and a subheading
- with a bullet
- list
# this is pretty printed bash code
ls -al
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Hold up a green card when you are done
And a red card if you want help...
Demonstrate Show that you can type raw html into the markdown by adding
<a href="http://www.nectar.org.au">NeCTAR</a>
Tiny URL
We wanted to make it simple for learners to enter a url from the slides, so we decided to use a URL shortner.
There are a lot of url shortners out there.
We settled on TinyURL.com
For one simple reason: it was the first we found in which we could set the URL to be generated.
I believe, with no research behind me, that well selected human readable strings are easier to work with than randomly generated characters.
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Our url format
[TinyURL](The original url being shortened)
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We try to keep to this format for URL's in the material.
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Why do we use this format?
[TinyURL](The original url being shortened)
- Markdown mandates this format for url's
- Developers like clarity
- TinyURL might vanish!
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Answer: C Although it's been around for quite a while, we aren't sure that TinyURl will continue to be around. It also helps us when reading the source material to see where the shortened url is actually pointing.
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Can you
Find a long link, and shorten it with http://tinyurl.com ?
Once done, enter it into the Markdown Here live demo site
In our preferred format:
- [TinyURL](The original url being shortened)
Then get your neighbour to check it for correctness.
- G = Done...
- R = Please help us!
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And that's about the level of markdown you need to know to work on and understand the training material.
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True or False: Physical activity helps learning
- G = True.
- R = False.
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A True - Activity makes for a healthy brain. Especially true for children!