New Thinking Related to NRC Presentation
Hi all!
I hope everyone is surviving the beginning of the spring semester without keeping TOO busy!
I have been doing some reading and came across a very interesting article that reminded me of some of the conversations that emerged during and after the NRC presentation by John McEneaney, Bridget Dalton, and Maya Eagleton. I came across this paper and thought I'd send it along to the people I could remember were there (and a few that weren't but might be interested) just to share a new idea (or at least new to me) that might spark some more thinking along those lines.
Just to refresh your memories: After the presentations, we were collectively brainstorming ways that John's trace methodologies could potentially be used within a scaffolded environment (like Strategy Tutor) to simulate novice vs. expert interaction within online informational websites and thus, "with the click of a button" guide or support readers engaged in complex information searches on the Internet.
The title of the paper I just found is SNIF-ACT: A Model of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web -
available in pdf format at
http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/pubs/items/UIR-2003-02-Pirolli-UM-SNIFACT.pdf
This study (it's short - only about 13 pages) examines log files generated by WWW interaction while users are engaged in ecologically valid WWW reading and learning tasks. The data is represented in "web behavior graphs" that reminded me of John's work with graphical analyses of reader patterns for different purposes.
The trace methodologies here integrate data from something called Weblogger (which captures keystrokes, browser actions, etc), Eyetracker, and video recordings along with verbal protocol data to produce a "web protocol transcript". It sounds like Camtasia could combine weblogger and video (though not sure which platforms produce data that is most efficiently analyzed for the purposes we may have).
The results suggest that some of the ideas we were thinking about at NRC might actually be possible (though I don't think I have the technical brainpower that John does to actually make sense of the data! ;-)
Also, on the bottom of page 5, the authors refer to a database of tasks collected from a survey of over 2000 WWW users (Morisson, Pirolli & Card, 2001) - has anyone ever heard of this? I thought it might be a nice database to get hold of for ideas we could all use in our work with students reading on the Internet.
Well - I just thought I'd pass this information on in case it sparked any new ideas for any of you. It reminded me of the great NRC presentation and how the technologies seem to be quickly emerging to begin providing the scaffolding we'd like for online readers - it's just a matter of pulling information from different fields of work to inform the development of this support system. I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts on the matter!
Hope all is well with everyone!
Take Care,
:-) Julie
I hope everyone is surviving the beginning of the spring semester without keeping TOO busy!
I have been doing some reading and came across a very interesting article that reminded me of some of the conversations that emerged during and after the NRC presentation by John McEneaney, Bridget Dalton, and Maya Eagleton. I came across this paper and thought I'd send it along to the people I could remember were there (and a few that weren't but might be interested) just to share a new idea (or at least new to me) that might spark some more thinking along those lines.
Just to refresh your memories: After the presentations, we were collectively brainstorming ways that John's trace methodologies could potentially be used within a scaffolded environment (like Strategy Tutor) to simulate novice vs. expert interaction within online informational websites and thus, "with the click of a button" guide or support readers engaged in complex information searches on the Internet.
The title of the paper I just found is SNIF-ACT: A Model of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web -
available in pdf format at
http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/pubs/items/UIR-2003-02-Pirolli-UM-SNIFACT.pdf
This study (it's short - only about 13 pages) examines log files generated by WWW interaction while users are engaged in ecologically valid WWW reading and learning tasks. The data is represented in "web behavior graphs" that reminded me of John's work with graphical analyses of reader patterns for different purposes.
The trace methodologies here integrate data from something called Weblogger (which captures keystrokes, browser actions, etc), Eyetracker, and video recordings along with verbal protocol data to produce a "web protocol transcript". It sounds like Camtasia could combine weblogger and video (though not sure which platforms produce data that is most efficiently analyzed for the purposes we may have).
The results suggest that some of the ideas we were thinking about at NRC might actually be possible (though I don't think I have the technical brainpower that John does to actually make sense of the data! ;-)
Also, on the bottom of page 5, the authors refer to a database of tasks collected from a survey of over 2000 WWW users (Morisson, Pirolli & Card, 2001) - has anyone ever heard of this? I thought it might be a nice database to get hold of for ideas we could all use in our work with students reading on the Internet.
Well - I just thought I'd pass this information on in case it sparked any new ideas for any of you. It reminded me of the great NRC presentation and how the technologies seem to be quickly emerging to begin providing the scaffolding we'd like for online readers - it's just a matter of pulling information from different fields of work to inform the development of this support system. I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts on the matter!
Hope all is well with everyone!
Take Care,
:-) Julie
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