A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students
Title | A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
2009 | |
Authors | Rosson, M B., Ioujanina A., Paone T., Sheasley G., Sinha H., Ganoe C., Carroll J. M., & Mahar J. |
Conference Name | Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '09) |
Pagination | 226-230 |
Date Published | 03/2009 |
Conference Location | Chattanooga, TN USA |
We describe work on developing workshop activities that are part of wConnect, a project that is building an online community of women in computer and information science. The workshops are designed by college women for high school girls, with hands-on construction of dynamic web sites. Because of limited workshop time, the activities use scaffolding to help girls achieve the in-tended learning objectives. In this paper we describe the design of the activities, their formative evaluation in a series of four work-shops, and how we are using these results in the larger project. | |
10.1145/1539024.1508950 |