VMTYear4Plan

VMT Year IV Plan

Meeting Schedule

Project Meetings -- Wednesdays (sometimes Tuesday) 12:00 to 1:30

Sept 13, 19 (Tuesday), 27, Oct 3 (Tuesday), 11, 18, 25

Data Analysis Sessions -- Wednesdays (sometimes Tuesday) 2:30 to 4:30

Sept 13, 19 (Tuesday), 27, Oct 4, 11, 18, 25

Project Staging

Release new rooms without lobby

Singapore

Upward Bound

Carnegie Mellon

Mentoring

Public

Release basic lobby

Testing

Public trial

Release full lobby

Spring Fest

Public

Software & Hardware Development

Hire programmer

IST RA or Research Experience

CS RA or Research Experience

Math Forum half-time staff

Install 3 servers for load balancing

Future Expansion of Software

Community areas for sharing & communication

Archive of solution work

Collaborative information searching

Social support & community building: profiles, group formation

Research

Dissertation proposal defenses -- PhDCommittees & PhDProposals?

Doctoral consortia

CSCL 2007 papers & workshop

Publications

Other

VMT web site

Automatic archiving of transcripts

Plan as of Summer 2006

• 1. Scale up technology by making isolated rooms. Move lobby to other technology
• 2. Support grouping by individuals – new version of lobby
• 3. Develop lobby on cell phones & handhelds as well as html
• 4. Develop funding proposals to Microsoft, H-P, Verizon, NSF
• 5. Support development of new business plan by Math Forum
• 6. Revise Help & Documentation system to respond to different use scenarios (classroom related and open)

• Teacher’s Guide, etc. – Gerry
• Help website, more graphical and organized – Aarthy
• Email directed to checklist of room members, teacher, VMT – Martin
• Refine use of wiki – Johann
• Information browsing & search – Nan
• Curricula sets – Gerry
• Start up new service in Fall
• Upward Bound in Summer
• Singapore in Summer
• Reports to NSF – Gerry
• Dissertation proposals & approval – Murat, Nan, Ramon, Johann
• Interviews of students – Ilene and Wes
• Papers at CSCL conference