Computer Clubs for Girls

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CC4G Computer Clubs for Girls
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Agenda for this afternoon

• Welcome and housekeeping
• What is CC4G
• Where did it start
• A look at the Courseware
• Guided Tour and Hands on session exploring
• the site
• More reasons to be involved
• Facilitator support what we do to help you
• Role of the Facilitator
• Q A
• Next Steps

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What is CC4G?

• A series of web-based activities and challenges,
  delivered in a club environment
• Provides courseware on a number of attractive
  themes specifically targeting girls
• Courseware introduces a range of ICT skills
  within a familiar and exciting context
• Designed to be accessible to a cohort of girls
  aged between 10 and 14 years

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Where did it start?

• Research
• Only one fifth of the IT workforce is female
• Recruits often lack soft and commercial skills
• Girls dont link technologies they love with the
  appeal of careers in IT

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Where did it start?

• Survey
• Talked to Educators
• Talked to Girls
• Talked to Employers

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The story so far

• 128 Schools in SEEDA
• DfES funding national rollout across England
• Programmes in Scotland, Wales and Northern
  Ireland

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The club was born

• Based around a website, accessible from school
  and home through a password
• Full e-learning function
• Mapped to ICT National Curriculum and relevant
  across the many subject areas
• Provides girls with attractive membership items -
  folders, stickers and pens
• CC4G offers free donated software to support the
  club challenges

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The courseware

• Developed following consultation
• The four main traits identified
• Communication skills
• Project planning
• Problem solving
• Predictive reasoning

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The courseware

• Incorporated girls interests and aspirations
• Designed to clearly link to the National
  Curriculum for ICT at Key Stages 2 3
• Explicit links across the wider curriculum
• Aims to complement the curriculum and support
  teachers by building ICT skills in a
  user-friendly e-learning environment

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The topics

• Investig8 looks at the world of crime scene
  investigation, forensic science and profiling
• DesignTime girls design rooms and gardens to a
  specified brief, bringing in energy efficiency
  and awareness of those with partial sight
• Celebrity fanzines, posters, publicity
  materials, interviews, bands on tour, everything
  linked with the world of the celebrity
• Campaign introduces a SuperChallenge, girls
  plan and run their own fundraising campaign

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The topics

• Soundskool composing a radio jingle, sound
  poster and e-card design.
• Fashion nail art, clothing design, fashion show
  organisation and marketing are all covered.
• DanceM8 movement, dance sequences, planning a
  disco.
• Game Girl designing games, understanding
  computer game coding and programming.

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The topics

• Fit4Sport video and animation creation of sport
  moves, fitness logging, team promotion.
• Communi-K8 the world of communications,
  including codes, encryption, video conferencing,
  designing mobile phones.
• Showcase the pinnacle of the courseware where
  girls engage in a large-scale project introducing
  them to the world of work and making use of the
  skills they have gained from other courseware
  topics.

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The CC4G website
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Reasons

• Girls comments about the club
• Girls who are not comfortable in other clubs
  (music, sport) often find their niche in CC4G
• Cross-curricular gains are made, particularly
  when girls realise that ICT can help them in
  different contexts
• Evidence suggests ICT skills learnt in the club
  environment are more enduring, and girls
  correlate these more easily than those learned
  in a classroom.

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Support given

• Glossary
• How2s

• Assets
• Certificates

• Guides for each Topic
• Facilitators can contact the Helpdesk either by
  telephone [phone] or by email by clicking
  on Support in the admin menu
• FAQs

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The role of a facilitator

• Recruit members
• Add new members
• Provides support in starting the courseware
  challenges
• Monitor progress and recognise completed
  challenges
• Create the right environment to support learning,
  but which isnt like school

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Questions and Answers
QA
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The Next Steps

• Complete the Registration Form
• Receive Welcome email including your Username
  and
• Password
• Receive a Start-up Pack
• Facilitator Information Guide
• 10 Posters
• 30 flyers
• Sample of the Club Member Goodies
• Induction DVD
• Celebrity topic guide
• Further training available

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