- Content organization of VMT wiki page
- -- Project papers posted
- Questions about research design
- Seeded question can be generated from POW
- Open: freely come and go. Might be difficult to get them signed up.
- 4-5 people per group:
- Videotaping may be needed e.g. for watching what they are doing on paper along with the chat; facial expression and what's on the screen at the same time
- Two main research questions:
- Impact of mathematical identities and classroom culture on chat work
- Structure of group itself and the way the group work develops
- Difference in math discussion in classroom and this online environment Classroom videotaping
- What we have known about software use
- Fall program design
- Membership required to participate in solving the problem
- Run PoW? first
- Provide trial account
- Development schedule
- Create user accounts
- Create rooms/tasks/
- More about registration: what data do we want to gather from registration
- Can we make time stamp of whiteboard -- it's available on the server. The old version shows the local time. It's still up in the air how to design it in the new version.
- Discussion of year 3 plan led by Steve
- Open and seeded: maybe helpful to have an expert from math forum
- Get feedback to see the requirement for mentoring and time/room
- Coordination:
- Can people send email around to invite more participants or should teachers be in charge of it?
- Should we have “happy hour” over longer period of time?
- Should people registered for the room get a list of people who also registered?
- Do people need to wait to get the approval?
- Maybe different types of room: we may want to get participants' opinion on how they want it to be set up, e.g.control of the room
- other issues of designing:
- Let someone join but still can deny the access to the room
- If open, people can change their identity
- (wes: younger kids don’t use email at all. They don’t have each other’s email. They use IM. They would wait or set away message. It’s similar to physical world without email. )
- Specific time slots during the day/week to attract people
- Recruit the initial interview core group of Wes?
- -- How to solve the time conflict? Should we do the interview before having them participate?
- Recruitment protocol for teachers/students
- Put together recruitment plan for teachers and participants
- One of benefits of participating: get feedback
- more: Learn a lot (pass the exam), generate ideas, to cooperate, share, etc
- More specific about what we see good collaboration is in order to say what support we would be able to offer
- Scaling issue: not likely to happen based low participation using IM
- How are we providing the problems?
- In HTML page: how is it going to be transfered into concertchat.
- How do we want people to see the problem before they come to the room and work together?
- -- For the time being, we should allow them see so they have idea of the nature of the problems math forum provides. The type of problem changes the dynamic.
- -- Separate problems (under different categories) and one of them will pop up. So students know what types of problem to expect but didn’t know which one exactly. (similar to a game)
- -- We should keep thinking about the question of how they get problem, which will affect the conversation.
- -- Once the room is populated and ready to start, there’s a button for the owner to click and say “get the problem”. What are the benefits?
- For open group: Idea of library: browse and choose their own
- For seeded: strictly lined with POW
- -- A list of problems under each is the list of rooms who are working on it
- -- Can user create problems? No. they can only add rooms
- Control issue
- Multiple reviews: summary of the problem
- Design of math problems that enables tracking the learning, assessment
- Track development over time: plan for year 4? Assessment
- Alternative design of tracking the group but not the math knowledge (individual and group as a whole)
- Open-ended problem vs. hard problem
- Tree of problems: problem types
- What to do next:
- Design recruitment protocols
- Design the help documents
- Design problems
- Set a chat with them next week?