CS10K Community Activating Your Membership

Why an online community for CS10K?

• Sustained engagement to support your teaching

• Recognize successes and honor challenges

• Contribute to a national movement – To broader participation in

computing – To better prepare students for

the challenges of the future

Online Community Research

What Creates Value for Educators

Initial value• Effective leadership and

moderation• Appropriate resources • Robust tools for finding

what you need and getting questions answered

Deeper value• Effective leadership and

moderation• Structured activities• Tangible products• Leadership opportunities

Community Activities

• Accessing and sharing expertise – Peers nationwide – Outside experts

• Finding, sharing, and co-creating resources– Finished and in progress – Within and across projects

• Confronting challenges of practice together – Key instructional moments– CSP Portfolio tasks – Recruiting students and communicating with administrators

Confronting the challenges of practice & co-creating resources Groups

– Project groups – Inquiry and working groups – Public groups (e.g., CS in the Wild)

Accessing expertise Events and one-to-one connections

– Webinars– Chats– Time-bounded

asynchronous discussions

– Member profiles

Finding and sharing resources Search and annotation

– Anyone can upload and tag in relationship to curriculum and development status

– Faceted search – Rating and comments

Going public, but only when you’re ready

• You control with which groups you have a discussion

• You control who gets to see resources you post

• You decide with whom and how you want to connect and in what you participate

Tour

Collective wondering

How might you use the community to support your learning and performance? What could you

contribute (now or later)?

Collective wondering

What might prevent you from participating actively? What kinds of support would be

helpful in overcoming those barriers?

Collective wondering

What topics would you like to see groups and resource development focus on? On which

would events with guest experts be helpful?

Questions?

Stay in touch

Darren Cambridge dcambridge@air.org

@dcambrid(202) 270-5224