By Shu-Min Liao (Amherst College)
Abstract
Do you want to build a strong (online) learning community while helping students with no or minimum prior coding experience learn R? Try SCRATCH self-introduction project! In this demonstration, I’ll describe how I used SCRATCH – a fun virtual program developed by MIT – to help my Intermediate Statistics (STAT 230) students create and share their interactive self-introductions on a discussion forum in Week 1. This project helped students not only get to know each other (and me!) well from the beginning, but also learn basic coding concepts without even writing any code! The detailed Project Guidelines and Video Tutorials will be provided to help participants make their own activity in a few hours! With careful instructions, the average time students spent completing this project is no more than an hour. STAT230 is one of our service courses and there are 46 students with very diverse coding experience enrolled in Spring 2021.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ltAfN5h9rKNrNvRbx7HmY_Jer7skyHHH/view?usp=sharing