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Children as webmakers: designing a web editor for beginners

Children as webmakers: designing a web editor for beginners Short Papers IDC 2013, New York, NY, USA Children as Webmakers: Designing a Web Editor for Beginners Thomas H. Park, Rachel M. Magee, Susan Wiedenbeck, Andrea Forte College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 {thomas.park, rachel.magee, susan.wiedenbeck, andrea.forte}@drexel.edu ABSTRACT In this short paper, we describe the design of a new web editor for beginners called openHTML and our initial evaluation with children aged 10 and 11 in an after-school web-building workshop. Drawing on data from verbally administered surveys and participant observation, we identified three kinds of engagement with the workshop tasks: a homework orientation, an artistic orientation, and a social orientation. We describe the kinds of scaffolding that the children needed to complete their web pages, the places where they struggled, and translate these observations into implications for the design of a web editor for children. children aged 7 to 17 go online [15]. Although this demonstrates a high penetration of Internet use, there are large variations in the kinds of activities youth engage in online. Close to three quarters of American teens online use social networking sites, while less than 40% share content online [7]. The creation and sharing of creative content online http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Children as webmakers: designing a web editor for beginners

Park, Thomas H.; Magee, Rachel M.; Wiedenbeck, Susan; Forte, Andrea
Association for Computing Machinery — Jun 24, 2013
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Short Papers IDC 2013, New York, NY, USA Children as Webmakers: Designing a Web Editor for Beginners Thomas H. Park, Rachel M. Magee, Susan Wiedenbeck, Andrea Forte College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 {thomas.park, rachel.magee, susan.wiedenbeck, andrea.forte}@drexel.edu ABSTRACT In this short paper, we describe the design of a new web editor for beginners called openHTML and our initial evaluation with children aged 10 and 11 in an after-school web-building workshop. Drawing on data from verbally administered surveys and participant observation, we identified three kinds of engagement with the workshop tasks: a homework orientation, an artistic orientation, and a social orientation. We describe the kinds of scaffolding that the children needed to complete their web pages, the places where they struggled, and translate these observations into implications for the design of a web editor for children. children aged 7 to 17 go online [15]. Although this demonstrates a high penetration of Internet use, there are large variations in the kinds of activities youth engage in online. Close to three quarters of American teens online use social networking sites, while less than 40% share content online [7]. The creation and sharing of creative content online

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