TY - GEN
T1 - Collaboration by choice
T2 - 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
AU - Kafai, Yasmin
AU - Roque, Ricarose
AU - Fields, Deborah
AU - Monroy-Hernandez, Andres
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Online creative production has received considerable attention for its success in creating Wikipedia and Free and Open Source Software yet few youth participate in such voluntary online collaborations, in particular in programming contexts. In this paper, we describe how youth programmers organized collaborative groups or collabs in response to a design challenge in the Scratch Online Community. We report on participation in the "Collab Challenge" in the Scratch community at large and with particular groups, designers' efforts in recruiting and organizing collab groups, and the role of community feedback. In the discussion, we address what we learned about youth's informal collaborative skills, fostering community participation, and the design of online communities supportive of creative collaboration, and open issues for further research.
AB - Online creative production has received considerable attention for its success in creating Wikipedia and Free and Open Source Software yet few youth participate in such voluntary online collaborations, in particular in programming contexts. In this paper, we describe how youth programmers organized collaborative groups or collabs in response to a design challenge in the Scratch Online Community. We report on participation in the "Collab Challenge" in the Scratch community at large and with particular groups, designers' efforts in recruiting and organizing collab groups, and the role of community feedback. In the discussion, we address what we learned about youth's informal collaborative skills, fostering community participation, and the design of online communities supportive of creative collaboration, and open issues for further research.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Online community
KW - Programming
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860496813
SN - 9786161201883
T3 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
SP - 189
EP - 193
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
Y2 - 28 November 2011 through 2 December 2011
ER -