From Code Club to CodeHub: Experiences with  Collaborative Learning

 

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Help, I've got a Meetup Group

 

 

 

 

Katja Durrani

BathCamp 20 July 2017

I. A bit about me

Euro Establishment Trash

My brother's

Now working on the "full stack" - Frontend, Backend, CMS, Basic Server Admin, currently with Wiredmedia in Bristol

2007

2011

Agency work from 2013

II. Adventures of a Learner-Teacher

Code Club

https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

Code Club

50/50 girls and boys - and almost all came back in the following school year!

What we did (in 3 years, 2012 - 2015):

- Scratch

- Moving turtles around with Python

- Build a website

- Raspberry Pi - Pi Cars

- Programming inside RasPi Minecraft version

- JavaScript (ThreeJS in the browser)

Code Club

NodeSchool

https://nodeschool.io/

With Adam Butler, Tom Spencer, Tristan McDonald and lots of mentors!

Terminal-based challenges + NodeJS-related talks   (Feb 2015)

CodeHub

http://codehub.org.uk/

- Started by Gicela Morales and me in 2013

- Originally just 4-6 people meeting up every month, to "work on a web dev project together and learn from each other"

- Targeted at people working on their own

- Became a Meetup group in January 2014

- We started to prepare mini workshops for each other (e.g. File permissions, Grunt, CSS Animations, Angular)

- A bit later, evening workshops (Git, Testing, Vagrant, Docker, PhaserJS, WebGL, Bash scripting)

- Experimenting with formats

- Members of very different skill levels

OpenTechSchool

http://www.opentechschool.org/

What is OpenTechSchool?

OpenTechSchool is a movement aiming to offer free tech education. Our events are open to technology enthusiasts of all genders, backgrounds, and experience levels, willing to coach or learn in a friendly environment. Our learning materials are shared and collectively improved by the online community and anyone is welcome to use it to organize new OTS chapters anywhere in the world.

Formats: One-day workshops like Rails Girls, Learners groups, "Hackership"

Hack Night

III. Plans

Objectives for CodeHub

  • Immediate: Organise JS workshop in September
  • Evening workshops every two months from September
  • Release our JS101 App and turn it into model project for learners to contribute to (same goes for JS101 website)
  • Ask experienced developers to be mentors (lunchtime talks at JS101?, hack night)
  • Get more women to attend hack night!
  • Establish discussion forum, publish documents with guidelines for talks etc
  • Research pathways to employment, get in touch with possible employers, establish 'baseline' web dev skills to work toward

Inspiration for creating learning environments

Contact CodeHub

Codehubbristol@gmail.com

@CodeHubBs

Gicela Morales, Claudia Loch,

Katja Durrani

Thank you

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