A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students

Authors:
Mary Beth Rosson;Anastassia Ioujanina;Timothy Paone;Gretel Sheasley;Hansa Sinha;Craig Ganoe;John M. Carroll;Jan Mahar
Affiliations:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park,, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2009

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Abstract

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.