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

2. 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?

3. We gathered our academic team. Ananda Gunawardena David Kaufer Alex Cheek Professor of Interaction Design Joanna Wolfe Professor of Annotations

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 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 They monitor activity in their community

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

12. 11 Users 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

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

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 …..