I had been awaiting this one session ever since the programme was first published. Happily I was not disappointed.
Barbara Boucher Owens (Southwestern University), Vicki L. Almstrum (The University of Texas at Austin), Lecia J. Barker (ATLAS Assessment and Research Center), and E. Anne Gates Applin (Ithaca College) spoke about their in-progress work with the Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP).
The rationale for the project is to collect narratives and oral histories from women educators in computing, to provide the basis for exploring how they could be used to support mentoring. We were introduced to the project, some sample interviews and looked at their early stage indexing system.
What interested me was the similarities in the issues they were addressing with our own on the (slightly less ambitious) Agile Narratives Project. Their talk gave me plenty to think about and implement, further references for reading, and the potential promise of a support network for people working in this field in the future. This connection alone would have made the entire conference invaluable for me. I left with a spring in my step, and a gladness in my heart, knowing that I was not alone and had just met some lovely people who were working in the same area.
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Johanna Hunt
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