Of Teacups, Giraffes, and R Markdown
summary
An interactive R Markdown site teaches statistics by embedding a whimsical teacup giraffe narrative and real exercises, with interactive Plotly plots, gifs built with gifski, embedded learnr tutorials and Shiny apps, and a custom iframe resizer to make learnr iframes behave. Source code lives on GitHub, rmarkdown templates (rstudio-for-edu / rmd-for-edu) are being packaged, and analytics are live but formal learning-efficacy testing is still pending as pilots with real classrooms begin.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:23Of TEACUPS, GIRAFFES, & R MARKDOWN
- 1:01The Problem
- 1:43Another problem...
- 4:30Creating your own GOOD CHARACTERS
- 8:06GOOD PLAY Embedded learn windows
- 10:20GOOD DESIGN
- 14:04GOOD CHARACTERS GOOD PLAY
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