Wiki – Lobby Connection

VMT Lobby Registered Users, Profiles, Tasks?, Rooms?

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User Profiles

• Structured (e.g. via a Template) or unstructured profiles?

• URL can be linked from the lobby and other places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jsarmi • Can usage information be integrated automatically?

Integrated/Enhanced Replayer

Shortcuts/Links

Session 1 (03/03/06 AM) Session 2 (03/09/06 PM) Guess & Check Great Use of Law of Sines • System automatically tags elements of the chat transcript to aid in navigation (e.g. a sessions’ start time and end time) • Users can do tagging as well to support their information needs (e.g. marking a point to backtrack, or an interesting passage)

Replayer

Teams’ “Trajectories”

• Represent team timelines and offer contextual information to aid in the exploration of trajectories: •Time & duration •Distance from previous and next sessions • Members present • Sample Whiteboard images • Automatic Topic detection?

• Associated Tags & Paths

Team A

(Algebra PoW: Baffling Brother) Topic: (Algebra PoW: Baffling Brother – Wikilinks ) Started on: Jan 7, 2007. Number of Sessions: 6 Participants: THarriot, nregul, mrt Visitors (25)

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Feb 22, 2006. 325 msgs, 45 minutes

Present

: THarriot, nregul and mrt.

Topics

: Quadratic equation, guess & check, adjusting Notes: Review 1 (sweimar), Nice Guess & Check (ian)

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“Notes”

46 Phil 1 iguana= 50 goldfish • Based on existing or new tags that point to the chat or whiteboard • Users annotate collections of tags and create paths for others to visit • Potential Uses: Instruction, Feedback, Community-building, etc.

To start, Phil created a first guess of the max number of pets. A good exploratory move!

Salt tried Phil’s idea and discovered that it didn’t quite work as a final solution. It’s always great to check ideas together as a group Phil then explored some relationships between the quantities of the problem: 15 iguanas cost the same as !

James we shouldnt worry about getting the numba of animals right lets just get the money right James made another very interesting move: just concentrate on one part of the problem at a time Although different team members were doing their own separate explorations they kept the results of their calculations public by placing them on the whiteboard At the end, the team found a formula to spend $10, do you think that would help them get the answer?!