Paper Info
Title
Teachers as designers: enabling teachers to specify dynamic web programming projects for students
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21530-8_19
IS-EUD
Keywords
Field
DocType
enabling teacher,authoring tool,drupal cms,own project concept,java-based toolkit,considerable advance work,developmental community,end-user web programming workshop,ongoing research,dynamic web programming project,participatory action research project,design tradeoffs
Participatory action research,World Wide Web,Outreach,Engineering,Dynamic web page,Content management system,Web programming,Multimedia,Java,Information and Computer Science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mary Beth Rosson14350613.74
Elizabeth Thiry2364.79
Dejin Zhao343334.98
John M. Carroll449501233.96