Duke CS Education Research Journal

Grande Finale!

Finished the final project and wrote a description for it.

Wrap-up lunch!

Kept on developing the final project!

• Finished the final report
• Started constructing my grande finale project – Fantasy Land

Have been working on the final report!

Goals of the day:

1. Modify Julie’s world √
2. Give feedback to Estella’s world + Write descriptions √
3. Standardize all teacher world descriptions √
4. Write a paragraph in place of a lesson plan for – Leonard, Norma, Wole, Rhonda √
5. Close all teacher requests via email √
6. Lay out the structure of final report

Day 38-40: MIT App Inventor Workshop!

*Really interesting lunch talk about using vectors to simulate projects

*Spoke with person in charge of Oxford exchange program! Thrilled to study CS there!

Day 41:

• Transcribed two interviews with former Alice participants
• Fine-tuning the collision check tutorial

To-do list:

1. Modify Julie’s world
2. Write a paragraph describing the worlds of teachers without lesson plans (Julie, Leonard, Norma, Wole)
3. Estella’s final world stats
4. Final report (by Wed.)
5. Read Kristen’s paper (by Mon.)
6. Further review Grundman’s world
7. Finalize tutorial PPT (after Nat reviews it)

Day 42:

• Goals:
  • Collect Estella’s final world stats √
  • Read Kristen’s paper √
  • Further review Jeanne’s world √
  • Start composing the final report √

Completed the collision detection tutorial!, which introduces the event listener feature and also the step by step manual setting of threshold distance, if one so wishes.

Goals of the day:

• Update form of teacher LP submissions
• Complete Ghost fire project collision detection tutorial
• Read a paper
• Further develop KM project

Actualities:

• Proofread the pre/post test results summary
• Half finished the Ghost fire project
• Further developed KM project

Worked as planned:

• Completed about half of my new project on author (Katherine Mansfield) chronology
• Lunch talk (algorithms)
• Updating teacher lesson plan responses

Actualities:

• Improved Amy’s pizza lasagna world
• Emailed everyone
• Developing project ideas