📅 Agenda

The detailed agenda for a workshop

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  1. Energiser
  2. Time traveller
  3. Sharing our blockers
  4. Step by Step
  5. Break
  6. Mentor each other
  7. Wrap up

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Wemoji

Learning Objectives

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This game can be played in-person or online with 2 or more participants.

One person will be the “Emoter” and the others will be “Empaths.”

  1. Emoter, choose a random emoji from the list.
  2. Emoter, act out the emoji using only facial expressions and body language (no sounds or words).
  3. Empaths, try to guess the emoji.
  4. The first Empath to correctly identify the emoji becomes the next Emoter.
Emojis List

❤️ Red Heart 😭 Loudly Crying Face 💀 Skull 🔥 Fire 🫶 Heart Hands ✅ Check Mark Button ✨ Sparkles 😂 Face with Tears of Joy 😊 Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes ⭐ Star 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears 🫡 Saluting Face 🙏 Folded Hands 🤍 White Heart 👀 Eyes 🫶🏻 Heart Hands 🫂 People Hugging 🩷 Pink Heart 🫠 Melting Face ❤️‍🩹 Mending Heart ✔️ Check Mark 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes 🦴 Bone 🗿 Moai 👍 Thumbs Up ❤️‍🔥 Heart on Fire 😔 Pensive Face 🫵 Index Pointing at the Viewer 👑 Crown

~ From emojipedia Most Popular Emojis 2024

Facilitator Check in questions

Guide participants to reflect on emotional expression and recognition
  • What was most challenging about expressing without words?
  • Which emoji were easiest to express, or read? Which were most difficult?
  • How does this exercise relate to reading people in real-life situations?

More resources

Time traveller

Learning Objectives

Meet the time traveller

In this motivational session, you will hear from an alumni who has been through the course and is now working in the tech industry. They will share their experience of training with CYF and how it has helped them in their career.

You will have the opportunity to ask questions and learn from their experience. If you could ask your future self anything about today, what would it be?

Sharing Our Blockers

Learning Objectives

We call problems that stop our progress “blockers”. We talk through our blockers regularly and help each other get “unblocked” or “unstuck”.

Sharing Our Blockers

Join the Jam board or grab some sticky notes. Add your blockers.

Make sure to add only one blocker per note.

Once everyone has added their blockers, group similar blockers together.

Next, we will discuss the blockers and help each other get “unblocked”.

🧰 Mentor Led Workshop

Learning Objectives

This time is to get help with a specific step. Focus on the blockers that are stopping your group from progressing. You must now split into groups based on the step you are working on. If you’re online, you can use breakout rooms to do this. If you’re in person, just step forward when your step is called.

📢 Caller:

  1. Step 1 join group Code Academy
  2. Step 2 join group Google Sheets
  3. Step 3 join group Scrimba
  4. Step 4 join group Scrimba as well
  5. Step 5 join group CYF Blocks
  6. Step 6 join group English

And if you haven’t started yet, welcome! Join the group Newcomers!

🗂️ Options

Code Academy

Step 1: Code Academy

Learning Objectives

https://www.codecademy.com/courses/streamline-resume-creation-with-generative-ai-case-study

This short 60 minute case study from Code Academy explains how to prompt an AI to generate a customised CV for a particular job. It is suitable for beginners. It has a link to a pre-course for people who have never tried Chat GPT before.

Volunteers should prepare for this session by completing the case study themselves. Your goal is to guide learners to explore achieving specific outcomes with the AI, rather than just following the instructions. Also reflect on the risks of using AI to generate CVs.

Google Sheets

Step 2: Google Sheets

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/college-and-continuing-education/en/try-a-career-in-data-analytics/details.html

This is an introductory course on Google Sheets for adult learners. In Try a Career in Data Analytics, learners will analyze data like a data analyst by filtering, sorting, calculating averages, and creating a visualisation in Google Sheets.

Here is the lesson plan.

Scrimba

Step 3, Step 4: Scrimba

https://v2.scrimba.com/learn-html-and-css-c0p/

The Scrimba course is an interactive video series where trainees build and deploy a sequence of static HTML and CSS sites.

Your job is to facilitate learners to work together on their projects. You can answer questions and unblock people, but keep your hands off the keyboard and let the applicants lead.

The capstone project is the Hometown Homepage. This is much more self directed than the previous steps and supporting learners to explore HTML and CSS is really key here.

The final stage of the Scrimba course is to seek a code review. We ask learners to do this in Slack using a simple template. Volunteers should lead code review and make sure every learner receives at least one code review in Slack. This can be as few as 50 words.

When learners have completed the course, support them to give other learners on this step code review in Slack.

CYF Blocks

Step 5: CYF Blocks

Learning Objectives

https://blocks.codeyourfuture.io/

CYF Blocks is a custom application of the Blockly library. It is a visual programming language that allows you to create programs by dragging and dropping blocks. This course has been developed specifically for {{our-name}} learners to build a foundation in programming concepts.

Volunteers, please prepare by completing some of the lessons in CYF Blocks. You can find the course at the link above. Establish a basic understanding of the course content and the types of exercises learners will complete.

CYF Blocks

CYF Blocks

🔗 Start the course

English

Step 6: English

Learning Objectives

https://englishtest.duolingo.com/test/practice

People who cannot yet speak English at a B1 or higher level should not apply for the next course. This is because the course is taught in English.

Newcomers

Welcome to Code Your Future

Learning Objectives

Welcome to Code Your Future! We are excited to have you join our community. Here are the steps you need to take to get started:

Break

A quick break of fifteen minutes so we can all concentrate on the next piece of work.

🧰 Peer learning Workshop

Learning Objectives

At CYF we always make time to help others. In fact, the best way to learn is to teach others. This is how we secure our understanding. Remember: focus on the blockers that are stopping your group from progressing. Volunteers may be around to help you with your questions, but this is your time to work together.

📢 Caller:

  1. Step 1 stay in group Code Academy
  2. Step 2 stay in group Google Sheets
  3. Step 3 stay in group Scrimba
  4. Step 4 join group Code Academy
  5. Step 5 join group Google Sheets
  6. Step 6 join group Scrimba

And if you’re a Newcomer, welcome! Join the group Code Academy!

🗂️ Options

Code Academy

Step 1: Code Academy

Learning Objectives

https://www.codecademy.com/courses/streamline-resume-creation-with-generative-ai-case-study

This short 60 minute case study from Code Academy explains how to prompt an AI to generate a customised CV for a particular job. It is suitable for beginners. It has a link to a pre-course for people who have never tried Chat GPT before.

Volunteers should prepare for this session by completing the case study themselves. Your goal is to guide learners to explore achieving specific outcomes with the AI, rather than just following the instructions. Also reflect on the risks of using AI to generate CVs.

Google Sheets

Step 2: Google Sheets

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/college-and-continuing-education/en/try-a-career-in-data-analytics/details.html

This is an introductory course on Google Sheets for adult learners. In Try a Career in Data Analytics, learners will analyze data like a data analyst by filtering, sorting, calculating averages, and creating a visualisation in Google Sheets.

Here is the lesson plan.

Scrimba

Step 3, Step 4: Scrimba

https://v2.scrimba.com/learn-html-and-css-c0p/

The Scrimba course is an interactive video series where trainees build and deploy a sequence of static HTML and CSS sites.

Your job is to facilitate learners to work together on their projects. You can answer questions and unblock people, but keep your hands off the keyboard and let the applicants lead.

The capstone project is the Hometown Homepage. This is much more self directed than the previous steps and supporting learners to explore HTML and CSS is really key here.

The final stage of the Scrimba course is to seek a code review. We ask learners to do this in Slack using a simple template. Volunteers should lead code review and make sure every learner receives at least one code review in Slack. This can be as few as 50 words.

When learners have completed the course, support them to give other learners on this step code review in Slack.

Wrap

You are done for the day. Take a moment to reflect on what you have learned and achieved.

Stand in a circle and share:

  • 📛 your name
  • 💪🏽 one thing you built today
  • 👷🏾 the task you are going to work on next
  • 🛟 one thing you need help with

Give yourselves a round of applause. Now you have earned your rest. Usually people go for a drink (or a coffee) after class. You are welcome to join and wind down together.