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## Community
=> students-on-gemini.gmi Help wanted: Why would students use gemini?
=> gemini-birthday.gmi 2023-06-22 - Happy birthday gemini
=> mastodon.gmi 2022-11-04 - Welcome to Mastodon
=> inviting-communities.gmi 2021-11-16 - Inviting more communities in to Gemini

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# Posts
=> students-on-gemini.gmi Help wanted: Why would students use gemini?
=> why-cli.gmi 2023-07-31 - Why I use the command line
=> intro-to-rogue.gmi 2023-07-30 - Beginners Guide to Rogue, the Roguelike Game

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# Why would students use gemini?
2023-08-31
Hi folks, this title perhaps sounds a little click-baity, but it's actually a genuine question.
This semester I'm teaching a computer science course to a diverse community of students, and among many other things, I'm teaching html/css/js and node.js and bash. This is the course I taught a few years ago (and wrote about previously) where I built a tilde server for the class, that they tried out. I'm teaching the class again, with a new crop of students, and I wanted some help here. On the one hand, I'm excited to show them Gemini. On the other hand, the last time I taught this class, it didn't make a big impression as I recall.
What attracts me to Gemini is the ability to read blog-like articles on topics that interest me, and the slow pace. Maybe this isn't that attractive to students!
Sadly, the one server I found previously that seemed to have a lot of young people and students on it (e-worm.club) appears to have shut down their gemini server, and while their www site is up, it's not active anymore either.
In some ways, this parallels my experience becoming a ham radio operator as a kid. I kept at it until high school, then gradually stopped when I found MUDs, MUSHes and aol chatrooms as a teen (90s). They were realtime, dynamic, and exciting to me.
So I'm wondering: would gemini be attractive to students at all, and if so, how? Are you a student (or young person) on Gemini? Please share your gemlog, or any thoughts you care to share.
And how would you explain or provide context about it that would connect for them?
Keep in mind: my students are young, have grown up with social media, are on tik tok. Some of them don't own a personal computer, and many mostly have access to the internet primarily on their phone.
Last time, the students seemed to enjoy the tilde server, playing the old bsd-games, competing in tetris-bsd and hunt. I'm going to set up astrobotany and finger, adventure and ideally something like a lightweight MUD.
The best way to reach me is lettuce at ctrl-c.club. And if you'd like your post listed publicly, please let me know your 'handle.'
Thanks!
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