A Google funded project to try to find ways to make computer science interesting and fun to high school learners. Makes use of the SCNS website and radio network, as well as MXit, Chsisimba and Google Talk

1. Making Computer Science fun for teachers and learners in Western Cape High Schools Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za [email_address] The University of the Western Cape

2. Context is important South Africa Western Cape Univ Western Cape Poverty is a majority phenomenon

5. http://scns.uwc.ac.za

13. widely popular among youth

14. Highly available due to high cellphone use among young people

15. XMPP based

16. Drug Advice Services Chisimba MXit Google Talk Service : 3-5pm daily, expanded to 3-7 pm due to demand

17. Project A proof of concept with 1-3 schools that are part of the SCNS project to participate in an online CS4Fun competition as a means to develop interest in computer science among high school learners

19. Talk via cell phone (MXIT)

20. Create a bot editor (AIML editor) for the learners to use to create their bot

21. Example

23. Create an AIML file and load it into the bot via a web interface

24. Chat with the bot via a web interface and improve on it by iteratively changing the AIML

25. Chat to the bot using MXit

26. Attribution file: http://www.dkeats.com/usrfiles/users/ 1563080430/attribution/attrib.txt