Argunaut’s 1 st teachers’ workshop An example of a design workshop in the initial stages of tool development

The Digalo discussion tool Graphical, synchronous e- discussion Ontology of shapes and connectors Small groups of 3- 6 discussants Moderated / un- moderated

The Idea of Argunaut

Planning the workshop… The “Hen and Egg” problem Solution strategy: using mock-ups Initial awareness indicators selected based on: – Literature review – Pedagogical experience Mock-up visualizations: – Static vs. animated vs. interactive – Familiar vs. unique/innovative – Amount of data in one graph?

Brief description of the workshop Questions: What awareness data are needed for effective online moderation of e-discussions? How should these data be presented to the moderator? Participants: 12 teachers with Digalo classroom experience. Schedule: 1.Introduction to the ideas of Argunaut. 2.Visualization workshop (mock-ups->feedback). 3. “Free” annotation/evaluation of Digalo maps Data sources: questionnaires, group discussion, observation sheets

A taste of the visualization workshop… For each of the following displays, please note: How important/useful is the type information displayed, for moderating Digalo discussions online? How intuitive/easy to understand was the display of information? (Also Likert scale) Any comments?

Activity1

Activity2

Social network - simplified

Social network - full

Sample feedback & reflection Activity 1 > Activity2 SNA-simple > SNA-full – “Information should be added, like coloring the arrows from one to the others in colors of support/opposition.” (SNA-simple) – “I prefer the user's name to automatically appear inside the circle, the shapes are too abstracted for me.” (SNA- simple) – Information overload, too many shapes. Not suitable for real-time (=on-the-fly) work, requires too much time to process/analyze. (SNA-full) – There are a lot of things you have to know in order to interpret the information. (SNA-full)