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Classroom Salon

Classroom Salon. Ananda Gunawardena (“ guna ”) Computer Science & David Kaufer English Carnegie Mellon University. What we bring to the project. A human-centric view. A machine-centric view. Salon vision. To extract and organize knowledge around small groups. What Salon is.

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Classroom Salon

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  1. Classroom Salon AnandaGunawardena (“guna”) Computer Science & David Kaufer English Carnegie Mellon University

  2. What we bring to the project A human-centric view A machine-centric view

  3. Salon vision

  4. To extract and organize knowledge around small groups

  5. What Salon is • A platform that supports social learning • A content-centric platform that allows deep discussion of all content related to the course • A discovery platform that allows users to find other “interesting” users • A platform that allows teachers to get to know their students better • A platform that allows students to get to know each other • A platform that protects privacy of students

  6. What Salon is not • It is not a course management system • It is not an ebook platform • It is not just another highlighting tool • It is not a document management system

  7. We think most educational technology systems are designed from a system centric viewDo not support teacher thinking or workflow

  8. Salon is designed with a user-centric view

  9. Salon handles most course related tasks better

  10. Teacher ask students to read and prepare for class • No other platform supports reading like Salon does • Salon tracks and records student activities • Social nature of the platform encourages active participation • How do you track reading with other platforms/processes? • Course management systems? • Learning management systems? • Reading groups? • Polling/surveys?

  11. Track Reading

  12. Teacher ask students to complete homework • Salon enables small group homework completion • Individually • As a group • How do other systems manage this process? • Submitting completed homework online or on paper

  13. Complete homework

  14. Students have a lot of questions about the assignment • Salon enables immediate clarification on the context • How do other systems handle this? • Discussion boards • attachments • Help sessions

  15. Clarify Assignments

  16. There are no good ways to measure student’s prior knowledge • Salon enables prior knowledge detection activities • How do other systems handle this? • Pre course surveys • Polling • 1-1 meetings

  17. Measure Prior Knowledge

  18. Tracking the activities of students • Dash board is a way to track activities of each/all student(s)

  19. Salon is Social

  20. People I am interested in

  21. Current activities of those I am interested in

  22. These people are interested in me

  23. I manage my Salons

  24. How to create this social connection? Click on anyone’s picture and find their interests

  25. Salon Teacher Tools

  26. Monitoring Class Activities

  27. Monitoring Individual Students Thomas Manzini annotations Performance in each unit responses Salons Created: 2 Documents uploaded: 6 Annotations Made: 56 Responses Provided: 40 Commenting on others: 42 Open Discussions: 38 Commenting on others Filter discussions How time spent

  28. Salon is research based

  29. Tone matching dictionariesExpert humanistUsability Semantic similarity algorithms Adaptive Book technologies Scalability and performance Alex Cheek Interaction design Information design Joanna Wolfe Reading and Annotations

  30. How learning works Eberly Center for Learning Carnegie Mellon University

  31. Salon Technology

  32. Salon Technology and Statistics • Flexible and Scalable platform • asp.net, C#, Flex • Transition into Cloud • Virtual Salon server • php, html5, js • Mobile Salon • Android Tablet/phone Support • ipad/iphone in the works (target date: January 2012) • Statistics • Current users: 8000+ • Documents uploaded : ~ 5637 • Salons created: ~ 670 • Separate Salon server Deployments: Grover City College • http://classroomsalon.gcc.edu

  33. Funding and company Status • Funded by • National Science Foundation • Gates Foundation • CMU • Spin-off Status • Seed Funding by • innovation works • Heinz Endowment • Business Relation Discussions • Mc-Graw Hill • HP • Intel Capital • Yahoo!

  34. Thank you

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