This full-day workshop will be on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at the
Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, NC.
Note: Because it is rare for so many members of the blocks programming community to be in one place, we have also planned some informal gatherings and meetups at meal times.
If you have any questions about the program, please contact
Franklyn Turbak.
Informal Dinner Groups and Post-Dinner Discussions
Many workshop attendees are interested in joining dinner groups.
Use the Blocks and Beyond Coordination Doc to form dinner/discussion groups and tell other folks where you are.
Tuesday, October 10
The main workshop activites will take place in the Zanzibar Room
at the Marbles Museum.
The workshop format and schedule is designed to encourage discussion amongst the attendees:
Four talk sessions include both full paper presentations (15 minutes each) and position statement lightning talks (6 minutes each), followed by a discussion with the audience.
Two hour-long blocks playground sessions involve presentations of demos and posters
The workshop culminates in an invited panel on the future of blocks programming. Each of five panelists will begin with a 6-minute presentation, and this will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
Note: The PDF links require an HTTP username/password. This has been emailed to all workshop registrations, authors, and PC members.
08:00-08:20
Registration (continues throughout day)
08:20-08:30
Welcome from the Organizers
08:30-09:45
Talk Session 1: Visual Language Design
(Session Chair: Mark Sherman)
09:45-10:45
Blocks Playground 1: Demos and Posters
10:45-11:45
Talk Session 2: Blocks in New Domains
(Session Chair: Ralph Morelli)
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-12:45
Talk Session 3: New Features in Blocks Environments
(Session Chair: Caitlin Kelleher)
Invited Panel: The Future of Blocks Programming
(Moderator: Jeff Gray)
Caitlin Kelleher
·
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
·
Looking Glass
John Maloney
·
HARC/YCR, USA
·
GP
Paul Medlock-Walton
·
MIT, USA
·
GameBlox
Evan Patton
·
MIT, USA
·
App Inventor
Daniel Wendel
·
MIT (Scheller Teacher Education Program), USA
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StarLogo Nova
Abstract:
Five blocks programming environment developers were invited
to share their thoughts about the future of blocks programming and
seed a discussion among all attendees about this topic for the final session of the workshop.
Informal Dinner Groups and Post-Dinner Discussions
Continue discussions from the workshop going over dinner and after!
Use the Blocks and Beyond Coordination Doc to form dinner/discussion groups and tell other folks where you are.