Monday, April 21, 2008

Reestablishing Context of Activity

One thought: this might be part of LiveScribe's power - it easily preserves and presents a visual and audio record of activity.

Two Experiments to look at this question

1. Film 102C groups as they work on projects. Provide them with various kinds of representations or not - perhaps one as an audio record only, one with audio and digital images, one with video and audio. Which groups are faster to get back on task? Or which representations help a group get back on task more quickly (this a possible design only if there will be multiple weeks with similar activities taking place, e.g. writing).

2. Film vs. photos + podcast of 102C lecture.
Which students are better at recalling details of lecture, or which kinds of representations help the same students better recall details of lecture - e.g. what we went over last week.

Jim: Very natural to be describing it at a somewhat abstract level while watching my screen capture. Hal Pashler - does he know literature about that re-envoking context or aiding memory.

Edit snippets from the videos and we have to say me, not me.

Make up a web task, can you tell me not me
Don't finish up
Next week show a speeded up version of what they did
Reload context - isn't in the stuff but are in inferences
Making recommendations about printers
Quantify interruption cost
Group 1 - does entire task
Group 2 - gets interrupted
Group 3 -

Talk to me about what you were doing here - someone else's video vs. your own


Ed's Cascade of Representations

Rough table of contents - time codes, what's going on

"Event Table" - Spreadsheet with more events broken down - columns for Event/Timecode/Speaker/Speech/Gesture/Framegrab

How are decisions made about a publication?
How are final transcripts created?

Superimposing transcript over a map - works for a route