Classroom Salon Enhancing Learning through Annotation Visualization

1. Classroom SalonEnhancing Learningthrough Annotation Visualization Classroom Salon Team

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

3. Salon Strategy/Marketing/PR team YitzFrancus Consultant Reed McManigle CMU Tech Transfer Ari Lightman Consultant BabsCarryer Project Olympus

4. What is a Salon?

5. Salon is a gathering of stimulating and intellectual people

6. Salon Technology

7. Salon 2.0 Architecture

8. student Professor student Document upload annotation Markup Analysis Algorithm Classroom Management Docuscope Visualization

9. 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

10. Classroom Salon in Education

11. 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…

12. 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

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

14. You can be as creative as possible with Classroom SalonHere is one approach…

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

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

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

18. Show groups of students who agree/disagreeCreate communities of likes

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

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

21. View student responses to questions

22. Understanding emotions What do students think of the document

23. Global Response Gridsusers versus responses

24. Adopting Salon to your classroom

25. Create a SalonAsk the students to join

26. Add individual Students or bulk add

27. Rate of Participationmonitor student activity

28. Learning is SocialSalon Enables Social Interactions

29. What is happening?

30. Live feeds from fellow students

31. Personalization

32. interaction

33. Content and Emotion Mappings

34. Personalized Clustering

35. Salon encourages mobile communication

36. Salon on iPad

38. Get Salon comments on your Mobile Phone

39. Conclusion

40. 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?

41. 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

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

43. 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

44. Enjoy Classroom Salona gift from Carnegie Mellon University We are only supporting a limited number of pilot projects at this point. If you are interested contact guna@cs.cmu.edu