TY - GEN
T1 - Teachers as designers
T2 - 3rd International Symposium on End-User Development, IS-EUD 2011
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
AU - Thiry, Elizabeth
AU - Zhao, Dejin
AU - Carroll, John M.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - wConnect is a participatory action research project [1] building a developmental community for women in computer and information science (CIS). One activity hosted by wConnect is end-user web programming workshops for high school girls. Thus far we have relied on our lab's Java-based toolkit for these workshops, but this requires considerable advance work and subsequent maintenance by team members for each workshop, making the outreach process difficult to generalize and sustain. Currently we are using the Drupal CMS to create a web authoring tool that will support these workshops but also enable teachers to design and specify their own project concepts. Once a project is specified, learners can instantiate and complete them, adding data and other customizations according to personal preferences. We describe our work thus far on the authoring tool, design tradeoffs we are facing, and ongoing research.
AB - wConnect is a participatory action research project [1] building a developmental community for women in computer and information science (CIS). One activity hosted by wConnect is end-user web programming workshops for high school girls. Thus far we have relied on our lab's Java-based toolkit for these workshops, but this requires considerable advance work and subsequent maintenance by team members for each workshop, making the outreach process difficult to generalize and sustain. Currently we are using the Drupal CMS to create a web authoring tool that will support these workshops but also enable teachers to design and specify their own project concepts. Once a project is specified, learners can instantiate and complete them, adding data and other customizations according to personal preferences. We describe our work thus far on the authoring tool, design tradeoffs we are facing, and ongoing research.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21530-8_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21530-8_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960023372
SN - 9783642215292
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 233
EP - 238
BT - End-User Development - Third International Symposium, IS-EUD 2011, Proceedings
Y2 - 7 June 2011 through 10 June 2011
ER -