This is the "I 💖 teaching" lightning talk from JSUnconf 2015 in Hamburg. Links: Tal Ben-Shahar – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ben-Shahar Michele Guido – http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/michele-guido-it-takes-a-village-to-make-a-programmer.html Etiene Dalcol – https://twitter.com/etiene_d Wilhelm von Humboldt – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Humboldt Barcamp Salzburg – https://barcamp-sbg.at/ .concat() 2015 – https://conc.at/ University of Applied Sciences Salzburg – http://www.fh-salzburg.ac.at/ MultiMediaTechnology, Web Development – http://multimediatechnology.at/

1. I ! teaching
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2. How I got into teaching
• I studied Design & Animation
• I was lucky enough to have great mentors
• I wanted others to have the same experience that I had
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3. Teaching is probably
the most selfish thing
you can do!
— based on a quote by Tal Ben-Shahar 1
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extracted from Michele Guidos talk at
JSConf 2014 – It Takes a Village to Make a Programmer
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4. • You will get to know new people all the time
• You will probably learn more than your students
• You will get inspired and taught yourself every day
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5. If you care about
something: teach it -
and your life will
change forever
— @etiene_d
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6. Where is the !?
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7. I am a university lecturer
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8. Why universities usually suck
• The academic system is not inclusive at all
• It is based on a 200 year old philosophy
Blame good old Humboldt for that, or…
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9. You can change this!
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10. You do not need a PhD to teach!
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11. You do not need to be an
academic at all!
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12. You should teach what you are really into
• Frontend: JavaScript → io.js, ES6
• Backend: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Capistrano
• Tooling → Github, Browserify, Travis CI, …
• TDD, BDD
• Operations → *NIX, Docker, …
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13. Things you can help us with
• Be a mentor
• Offer paid internships
• Give talks, e.g. @Barcamp Salzburg, .concat() conference
• and …
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14. Teach at my university
Talk to me @eliias
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15. Thank You
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16. Links
• MultiMediaTechnology – Web Development
• University of Applied Sciences – Salzburg
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