Case Studies: Meetings

Friday, March 14, 2003, Torgersen 3180 (1:30-2:50 pm)

• Next Meeting: Friday, March 28, Torgersen 3180 (1:30 pm)
  • Following Meeting: Friday, April 18, Torgersen 3180 (1:30 pm)
• Attendees: Mary Beth, Jack, Con, Jonathan
• Workshop
  • Dates
    • Potential dates are:
      • 19-20 May
      • 22-23 May
      • Anytime during the week of 23 June
      • 2-3 June
    • Con is working on getting feedback from those who indicated an interest in working with us
  • Content
    • Possible topics for conference are now posted on Workshop 2003 page:
      • Case Study Background and Theory
      • Case Studies and Usability Engineering Instruction
      • Case Study Library/Usability Case Crawler
      • Student Activities Based on Case Study Library
      • Measuring Impact of Student Activities
      • Plan for AY2003-2004
  • Travel/Accomodations
    • We will do arrangements. Con needs to find out how. [Action: Con, Completed, See Workshop 2003]
      • See Ginger/Cathy Flint
    • Try to use Donaldson Brown for accomodations
• CoWeb
  • One product of this effort will be a website for participants
    • Possible content includes:
      • Contacts
      • Ways to use cases
      • Means to share in-class practices
      • Things to try
      • Theory
    • Con's task over the summer will be to construct the web site [Action: Con]
    • Begin to implement parts of it now
      • Seed with current activities used in CS 3724
      • Shell out structure to hold case use activities
        • Activity
        • Contact
        • Assignment
        • Results
      • Mary Beth knows of an exemplar site that does this in another domain. Send to Con [Action: Mary Beth, Closed: See 2003.03.28]
• Participants
  • We have twelve responses to 21 requests to participate
  • Of these 12, 9 were positive expressing interest in participating
  • We need to involve our participants in various activities leading up to the workshop. Participants should arrive at the workshop already grounded to much of the direction, possibilities, and theory of the project.
  • Send out an e-mail that points to the current co-web [Action: Con, Completed]
    • Indicate a full support web site will be coming this summer
    • Participating should help them in their teaching by providing access to materials and to other people doing the same thing
• Case Study Activities
  • Idea for case activity: Each student to study one of two cases and then pairwise explain the differneces
    • Contrast
    • This could possibly be an on-line collaboration
• Case Study Contributors
  • Jonathan is making progress looking at Tapped-In
• CS 3724 Surveys
  • Generated three self-efficacy questions for the homework #7 survey
  • Con to create survey and pass link to Jack (Action: Con, Completed)
  • Con shared some of his first efforts to try to get a big picture from the surveys
    • Share survey reports with Jack and Mary Beth (e-mail) [Action: Con]
• Other Items
  • Jack and Mary Beth will be presenting on case studies at a Center for Education in Undergraduate Teaching (CEUT) session on April 17