Meeting Notes for 04 February 2008

Action Items

• Get a task list item and estimate for updating the tutorials
• Eric: Evaluation forum for evaluators + developers

Tutorial

• Current tutorials are out of date
• There are some tools that will produce screencasts for the tutorial.
• Eric suggests:
  • have a knowledgeable student should do the tutorial?
  • use this tool to record the Think-Alouds
• Bob says: this is an enhancement, probably should be implemented after this development cycle

Marge's Concerns

• Bob, TomJ get in touch with Mihael's progress on Swift parallelization
• Eric's email-helpdesk merger and transition is in progress
• Bluestone-on-ANL. Eric says it's close to being done & Dale needs to test it.
• TomL needs to check with Dale for LIGO's stuff.
• Extra time may be needed for CMS' MC and TB studies (+1 week).
• Eric is concerned about the task numbers still.
• If no progress has been made on a task number, please don't put it in the weekly status report.

General discussion

• One of cosmic's perl scripts have been changes
• Minor changes and bugfixes go into BRANCHES/1.0 and TRUNK, major changes only into TRUNK
• We should branch off TRUNK into something like BRANCHES/1.1 at some point. (Waiting on Mihael's fixes?)
• Policy on emergency bug fixing
• Eric wants read access to the databases to learn it
• Phong is starting up development on alternate assessments.

Test routines

• Regression testing
• Unit testing
• It would take a lot of time.
• Eric suggests
  • Going forward, write tests when we fix bugs.
  • www13 will be for TRUNK
  • www18 will be for BRANCH/n (current)
  • www12 will be for BRANCH/n+1 (next release)

Surveys

• Students might concentrate on one area and miss some things for the pre-/post-test
• Some sort of survey the teacher fills out about how he or she feels how the students are learning
  • Jean is investigating this a bit.
• Set up a forum discussion on evaluation

Multiple-level e-Lab

• Set up separate elabs for each major experiment?
• For the LIGO-magnetometer study, assume the students have done the seismometer study already?
• For CMS, might be easy to clone the elabs since the studies are so similar between TB and MC.
• Take notes on the whole process of these multi-level elabs
  • Differences: prior knowledge, references, learner outcomes