Classroom Salon Enhancing Learning through Annotation Visualization Classroom Salon Team 2010, Carnegie Mellon University. No part of this presentation may be copied, reproduced or disclosed without written permission.

Salon Research/Development Team David Kaufer, Professor of English, former head, CMU English Joanna Wolfe, associate professor of English, Univ of Louisville Alex Cheeks, Assistant professor of communication design, CMU-Q Raja Sooriyamoorti Associate professor Information Systems, CMU Jason Kuo, Adam Brooks, Immanuel Alam, and Aaron Tan Original Salon Team, not shown Rupen Paul, Dev Doshi and 4 others Ananda Gunawardena, Associate Teaching Professor Computer science, CMU

Salon Strategy/Marketing/PR team Yitz Francus Consultant Ari Lightman Consultant Reed McManigle CMU Tech Transfer Babs Carryer Project Olympus

What is a Salon?

Salon is a gathering of stimulating and intellectual people

Salon Technology

Salon 2.0 Architecture

Administration Annotation/Visualization Clustering studentProfessorstudent Classroom Management Document uploadannotation Visualization Markup Analysis Algorithm Docuscope

Salon Technology Distributed web Servers –Hosting regions/groups –Localized/globalized annotation management Scalability –100+ concurrent users per session per document –number of sessions, documents, users No major limits Major Technology Platforms –Uses.Net, flash, HTML5, JavaScript –no open source software, proprietary system

Classroom Salon in Education

The Purpose of Salon Bridging the gap between Learning Sciences Research and Classroom Teaching Good Teaching Requires the understanding of how students learn Classroom Salon enables teachers to develop content and techniques to understand how students learn Learning Sciences can help…

7 Principles of Learning Sciences that can improve Teaching How does students prior knowledge affect their learning? How does the way students organize knowledge affect their learning? What factors motivate students to learn? How do students develop mastery? What kinds of practice and feedback enhance learning? Why do student development and course climate matter for student learning? How do students become self directed learners? Source: Eberly Center for Learning, CMU

It is possible to develop good projects around salon to support one or more of these principles

You can be as creative as possible with Classroom Salon Here is one approach…

Prepare and Upload a document to Salon add tags and questions, make the document available to a salon, privacy and access settings

Get Students to Annotate and respond to questions with a highly interactive tool Respond to questions and provide associated locations in the text

Salon Aggregates all student comments to show “hot spots” in the document Show all students who annotated a section

Show groups of students who agree/disagree Create communities of likes

If a document is marked with tags show how students selected tags associated with a spot

List all students who annotated the text View annotations specific to one or more students Hot spots shows the student annotation activity on the document

View student responses to questions

Understanding emotions What do students think of the document

Global Response Grids users versus responses

Adopting Salon to your classroom

Create a Salon Ask the students to join

Add individual Students or bulk add

Rate of Participation monitor student activity

Learning is Social Salon Enables Social Interactions

What is happening?

Live feeds from fellow students

Personalization

interaction

Content and Emotion Mappings

Personalized Clustering

Salon encourages mobile communication

Salon on iPad

Get Salon comments on your Mobile Phone

Conclusion

Why did we create classroom Salon? Getting students to read is hard Even if they read we do not know what they are reading Now we have a way to aggregate all student comments into visualization objects We can find out which part of the document is most interesting.. most controversial… Where do students agree or disagree or like or dislike?

Why Classroom Salon motivates writing students? Writing is an essential component of learning Imagine a student uploads a writing to salon Now all friends, family, teachers, anyone can comment on student writing Comments are aggregated and shown so student can quickly focus on places of interest, places that needs improvement etc.. No other platform is technically and algorithmically superior to classroom salon in annotation aggregation and visualization

Classroom Salon helps scale classes Creating small groups (within a large class setting) is one advantage of salon Small groups discuss and critique documents Documents can be their own writings or external reading assignments Aggregation of comments show places of interest

Data Mining and Classroom Salon A strength of classroom Salon is its ability to use novel techniques to understand – Content matching's How does your comments compare to an expert? – Emotion Mappings Who else is agreeing with the specific content of this document? Each highlighted section or comment student writes, explains what students know and don’t know Our goal is to mine this data to help the teacher and the student

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