1. Classroom Salon – A 21st Century Meeting of the Minds
David Kaufer, English
Ananda Gunawardena, CSD

2. How can Social Learning enhance Learning outcomes for Students?

3. Salon started in 2007 when we were Musing about Two Ancient Conundra:
Can we motivate students to read?
Can we monitor their reading?
We turned these ancient questions into modern ones:
Can we enhance student understanding of texts through social networking?
Can we make these social networks contagious?

4. And We Built Salon: A technology that transparently links annotation
data analysis
visualization

5. Leading To:
Deeper Student Engagement
Social learning
Efficient and Effective Class Prep
Real Time Formative Assessment

6. And all you need to do is to upload or type a document into a Salon

7. Users Annotate by
Selecting

8. They Respond to Questions and can Cite Textual Support.

9. They Build a Community with their Peers

10. Darker Shades Indicate more User Activity
Users
Who are
Part of the hotspot
Darker Shades Indicate more User Activity
They monitor activity in their community

11. Take a Document with Thirty Five Users
Salon finds the buzz….
Take a Document with Thirty Five Users
Where are the Hotspots?

12. Commented in the Highlighted Areas
11 Users
Commented in the Highlighted Areas

13. As we relax the requirements for a hotspot we see more hotspots

14. 10 or more

15. 9 or more

16. 8 or more

17. 7 or more

18. 6 or more

19. 5 or more

20. 4 or more

21. 3 or more

22. 2 or more

23. Here are all the annotations

24. Collective attention is rare
All 35 users annotated over 60% of the text; But no 6 users annotated even the same 5%.

25. Salon Supports Perspectives of Reading
Students can select roles
moralists or pragmatists.
Salon can filter annotations made from these different perspectives

26. Students identifying as moralists had one pattern of annotations

27. Students identifying as pragmatists had another

28. Moralists and pragmatists cited different regions of text to make their case

29. Social Media and Knowledge Assets

30. Salon Can Form Communities of Readers of Popular Media

33. Salon Combines Social Media and Social Learning

34. Salon Enables Real Time Tracking of Knowledge Assets

35. So much knowledge from user annotations…

36. Salon is funded by National Science Foundation Innovation Works
Heinz Foundation (through CTTEC)
And Lots of Talented People who Donated their Time

37. Who Uses Salon? CMU Global Campuses Allegheny Intermediate Unit
University of Pittsburgh Law School
South Fayette Public Schools
Qatar Academy
Grove City College
And many others that we’d list except that you then wouldn’t be able to read the slide.

38. Salon is growing

39. And we invite you to request an account @ http://classroomsalon.org

40. Thank you Salon Team Yitz Francus Reed McManigle Ari Lightman
Babs Carrier
Aaron Tan
Dev Doshi
And many many others …..