Create Galaxy-to-IGB training materials

Target audience: Dr. Goldstein and other researchers from his lab.

This slide deck may also provide the framework for the talk I'll be giving at the upcoming Galaxy conference in June, so the more detailed the better.

Link to slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1laXK6azinXmxq0MEhz5ZZ044vgQL5YfdTJv7GyDLM_A/edit?usp=sharing

Please see the presentation's notes for an outline of what I'd plan to say with each slide.

I've created the slide deck to hopefully do the following:

1. Introduce IGB
2. Introduce Galaxy
3. Convince the audience why they should use the Galaxy-IGB integration over other genome visualization options
4. Walk through an example RNA-Seq analysis pipeline/visual analysis story using tardigrade data

I initially created this slide deck in Microsoft PowerPoint but have converted it to Google Slides for ease of collaboration. This caused a few odd formatting glitches. I think I caught all of them, but please let me know if you see anything that looks off.

For review:

• Are there any important talking points that I might have missed?
• Are the images and text easy to read?
• If you could imagine yourself as a student in the Goldstein lab with relatively little computational background, would you find this presentation useful/easy to understand?

Change request:

• Please put the slidedeck draft into Dropbox / IGB / Outreach / 2024 Tardigrade

I've added the slidedeck draft to the aforementioned location in Dropbox and named it "2024-05-13-Galaxy-to-IGB-Tardigrade-Genome-Visualization.pptx".

This is a great start. We now have a great first version, and a structure for how we want to present the training. But there is still work to do - which is fine. The main challenge in the next step is going to be figuring out how to re-craft the slides so that a researcher can understand and execute the actions shown in the slides.

I think we ought to articulate a basic structure for our training materials slides decks, a structure we can use again and again, in different contexts. I want us to have a fast and efficient "pipeline" and protocol for making effective training materials for people, without our having to do tons of work

Building on what Paige Kulzer has started here, the structure I think will work best for us is:

• Introductory slides that tell the viewer and audience what the slide deck will explain to them. In this case, we explain: The slide deck will show them how to process and analyse RNA-Seq data from tardigrade, using a tardigrade genome assembly. We should explain that the slide deck is designed to let them try the process for themselves.
• Introductory slides that explain *why* it's useful to do this. What will they get out of doing all the steps shown in the slidedeck?
• Process slides that then walk the user through the steps, screen by screen, with images that perfectly match what the user is going to see on *their* screen.

I could write more but I think it would be better to talk about these ideas in person.

Moving to "Ready for PR" for the next step. For that step, Paige Kulzer please read this comment and make any additional comments about what I wrote. The next time we are in the office together let's talk about it!

Other ideas:

• Ask team members to do the tutorials and tell us where they got stuck or confused
• Ask people who do this type of thing a lot to give us feedback, tips, advice – and pay them consulting fees, of course!

I think that's a great idea to have a basic structure for training materials going forward. We can save presentations as templates with PowerPoint, so we can create a template from this slide deck once we settle on a version that we're happy with and save it to an accessible location like Dropbox. Then, when we want to make more training materials, we can open this shared template and work from there.

I also agree that it would be very beneficial to have some of our team members do the tutorials and see how well they can follow along. Ideally, these training materials will outline a process step-by-step such that any user, from IGB novices to power users, can all follow it without needing much guidance.

We have a good first draft of these materials, but they need additional work. Moving to DONE for now. We will revisit this when we're about a week out from a training sesion.