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Classroom SalonEnhancing Learning
through Annotation Visualization
Classroom Salon Team
Copyright @ 2010, Carnegie Mellon University. No part of this presentation may be copied, reproduced or disclosed without written permission.
Salon Research/Development Team
David Kaufer,Professor of English, former head, CMU English
Joanna Wolfe, associate professor of English, Univ of Louisville
Alex Cheeks, Assistant professor of communication design, CMU-Q
Raja SooriyamoortiAssociate professor
Information Systems, CMU
Jason Kuo, Adam Brooks, Immanuel Alam, and Aaron TanOriginal Salon Team, not shown Rupen Paul, Dev Doshi and 4 others
Ananda Gunawardena,Associate Teaching ProfessorComputer science, CMU
Salon Strategy/Marketing/PR team
Yitz FrancusConsultant Ari Lightman
Consultant
Reed McManigleCMU Tech Transfer
Babs CarryerProject
Olympus
What is a Salon?
Salon is a gathering of stimulating and intellectual people
Salon Technology
Salon 2.0 Architecture
Administration Annotation/Visualization Clustering
student Professor student
ClassroomManagement
Document upload annotation
Visualization
Markup Analysis Algorithm
Docuscope
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
Classroom Salon in Education
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…
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
It is possible to develop good projects around salon to support one or more of these principles
You can be as creative as possible with Classroom Salon
Here is one approach…
Prepare and Upload a document to Salon
• add tags and questions, make the document available to a salon, privacy and access settings
Get Students to Annotate and respond to questions with a highly interactive tool
Respond to questions and provide associated locations in the text
Salon Aggregates all student comments to show “hot spots” in the document
Show all students who annotated a
section
Show groups of students who agree/disagreeCreate communities of likes
If a document is marked with tags show how students selected tags associated with a spot
List all students who annotated the text
View annotations
specific to one or more students
Hot spots shows the student annotation
activity on the document
View student responses to questions
Understanding emotions
What do students think of the document
Global Response Gridsusers versus responses
Adopting Salon to your classroom
Create a SalonAsk the students to join
Add individual Students or bulk add
Rate of Participationmonitor student activity
Learning is SocialSalon Enables Social Interactions
What is happening?
Live feeds from fellow students
Personalization
interaction
Content and Emotion Mappings
Personalized Clustering
Salon encourages mobile communication
Salon on iPad
Get Salon comments on your Mobile Phone
Conclusion
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?
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
Classroom Salon helps scale classes
• Creating small groups (within a large class setting) is one advantage of salon
• Small groups discuss and critique documents• Documents can be their own writings or
external reading assignments• Aggregation of comments show places of
interest
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
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