Transcript Productive tensions

Chat Analysis in
Virtual Math Teams
Gerry Stahl & the VMT Team
The Math Forum @ Drexel
The I-School @ Drexel
[email protected]
Goals of VMT & Workshop
• How to understand knowledge building
that takes place in the VMT environment
• How to support data analysis with
technology
• How to move from data, to analysis, to
broader claims
• How to design technology & pedagogy to
support effective group cognition online
Face-to-face Classroom
• familiar people and artifacts
• parallel collaboration
background issues
disembodied text
separate diagrams
1. Avr (8:21:46 PM): Okay, I think we should start with the
formula for the area of a triangle
2. Sup (8:22:17 PM): ok
3. Avr (8:22:28 PM): A = 1/2bh
4. Avr (8:22:31 PM): I believe
5. pin (8:22:35 PM): yes
6. pin (8:22:37 PM): i concue
7. pin (8:22:39 PM): concur*
8. Avr (8:22:42 PM): then find the area of each triangle
9. Avr (8:22:54 PM): oh, wait
10. Sup (8:23:03 PM): the base and heigth are 9 and 12
right?
11. Avr (8:23:11 PM): no
12. Sup (8:23:16 PM): o
13. Avr (8:23:16 PM): that's two separate triangles
14. Sup (8:23:19 PM): ooo
15. Sup (8:23:20 PM): ok
16. Avr (8:23:21 PM): right
17. Avr (8:23:27 PM): i think we have to figure out the height
by ourselves
18. Avr (8:23:29 PM): if possible
19. pin (8:24:05 PM): i know how
20. pin (8:24:09 PM): draw the altitude'
21. Avr (8:24:09 PM): how?
22. Avr (8:24:15 PM): right
23. Sup (8:24:19 PM): proportions?
24. Avr (8:24:19 PM): this is frustrating
25. Avr (8:24:22 PM): I don't have enough paper
26. pin (8:24:43 PM): i think i got it
27. pin (8:24:54 PM): its a 30/60/90 triangle
28. Avr (8:25:06 PM): I see
29. pin (8:25:12 PM): so whats the formula
VMT ConcertChat
VMT Lobby of Chat Rooms
Multiple Shared Spaces
Wiki for Inter-Group
College Course with Chat,
Lobby, Boards, Wiki
Morning Workshop papers
– Information as a social achievement: Collaborative
information behavior in CSCL (Nan Zhou, Alan Zemel,
Gerry Stahl)
– Resolving differences: Twists and turns in a synchronous
online collaborative mathematics problem-solving session
(Ramon Prudencio S. Toledo, Alan R. Zemel, Gerry Stahl)
– The organization of collaborative math problem-solving
activities across dual interaction spaces (Murat Perit Cakir,
Alan Zemel, Gerry Stahl)
[download] [reviews] [ discussion ] [chat room] [wiki page]
[[chat transcript (TeamC.jno)]
– Bridging: Interactional mechanisms used by online groups
to sustain knowledge building over time(Johann W.
Sarmiento)
– The disembodied act: Copresence and indexical symmetry
in computer-mediated communication (Alan Zemel, Wes
Shumar, Murat Perit Cakir)
Afternoon Workshop papers
• Polyphonic Inter-Animation of Voices in Chats (Stefan Trausan-Matu)
• Model for Analysing Collaborative Knowledge Construction in a QuasiSynchronous Chat Environment (Juan Dee Wee & Chee-Kit Looi)
• A Framework for Analyzing Interactional Processes in Online Learning
(Daniel Suthers, Nathan Dwyer, Richard Medina, Ravi Vatrapu)
• Evaluating the Effect of Social Conversation on Learning, Interaction, and
Perceived Interdependence in a Collaborative Math Problem Solving
Environment (Rohit Kumar, Gahgene Gweon, Mahesh Joshi, Yue Cui,
Adaeze Nwaigwe, Carolyn P. Rosé)
• Understanding Students’ Mathematical Ideas and Reasoning in the
Online Environment of VMT-Chat (Arthur B. Powell & Frank Lai)
• Complicating Common Sense: The Theory, Practice and Politics of
Critical Ethnography in CSCL (Terry Epperson)
Other Conference Presentations
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Mon 9:00 -- Chat analysis in VMT workshop [intro slides]
Weds 3:30 -- Evaluating the Effect of Feedback from a CSCL Problem Solving
Environment on Learning, Interaction, and Perceived Interdependence;
Gahgene Gweon, Carolyn Rose, Emil Albright, Yue Cui (see above)
Weds 6:00 -- The Organization of Collaborative Math Problem Solving Activities
across Dual Interaction Spaces; Murat Cakir, Alan Zemel, Gerry Stahl (see above)
Thurs 10:15 -- A Framework for Eclectic Analysis of Collaborative Interaction;
Daniel Suthers, Nathan Dwyer, Ravi Vatrapu
Thurs 11:45 -- Information as a Social Achievement: Collaborative Information
Behavior in CSCL; Nan Zhou, Alan Zemel, Gerry Stahl (see above)
Thurs 11:45 -- The Disembodied Act: Copresence and Indexical Symmentry in
Computer-Mediated Communication; Alan Zemel, Wesley Shumar, Murat Cakir
(see above)
Thurs 3:30 -- Meaning Making in CSCL: Conditions and Preconditions for
Cognitive Processes by Groups; Gerry Stahl [download] [handout] [slides] [TeamB
JNO file] [replayer]
Fri 10:15 -- The Integration of Synchronous Communication Across Dual
Interaction Spaces; Martin Mühlpfordt, Gerry Stahl [download]
Fri 10:15 -- Creativity, Collaboration and Competence: Agency in Online
Synchronous Chat Environment; Elizabeth Charles, Wesley Shumar [download]
Fri 7:30 -- International Wine Tasting with Live Music: Browers Commons
Sat 11:00 -- ijCSCL Invited Symposium: Making Use of Productive Tensions in
CSCL; Friedrich W. Hesse, Gerry Stahl, Tim Koschmann, Dan Suthers, Peter
Reimann, Jürgen Buder, Ulrike Cress [intro slides]
Workshop (& VMT) Issues
• How to understand knowledge building that
takes place in the VMT environment
• How to support data analysis with technology
• How to move from data to analysis to broader
claims
• How to design technology & pedagogy to
support effective group cognition online
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Internet Access During Workshop
– The NETID is gerrystahl and the password is
Summer2007
Links
• Wiki including Workshop materials —
http://vmt.mathforum.org/vmtwiki/
• VMT Lobby —
http://vmt.mathforum.org/VMTLobby/
• VMT website —
http://mathforum.org/vmt/
• Gerry’s website —
http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/