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By Reilly Ellis
At our Friday work morning last week, Caitlin, Mary and I came up with a sketch for the new frontpage of the website. We want it to answer the following questions: What the heck is this thing?...
- Feb 07, 2013
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I have continued working on my paper this week and have started moving from an outline toward a draft. I think one of the biggest challenges about writing about something I have done is that I know...
- Feb 07, 2013
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Red Array of Death fixed, onward to exposing Types!
By pcarleton
After discussion in the meeting last week, I will be pumping the brakes on my mini-gallery effort. Making local variables more visible to the users is problem that needs solving, but the...
- Feb 07, 2013
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Designing for the Future of Code Tests
By Aaron Zemach
My week involved a little bit of actually writing code--getting a new branch working and a couple of bug fixes--but a lot of design. Earlier in the week, I had a meeting with Kyle to continue a...
- Jan 31, 2013
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A Community-Infused File Open Perspective and Looking Glass Design Principles
One of the themes that has been coming up with some frequency in our recent discussions is the need to tell Looking Glass’s story throughout both the community and the IDE. Following our...
- Jan 31, 2013
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By Jordana Kerr
Since my last post, my IRB was approved and I booked 36 children to participate in the challenges study, which starts this Saturday. I have the specialized IDEs built and ready to go, challenges...
- Nov 29, 2012
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To keep moving forward on the implementation while I'm working out a few design issues, I worked on filling in any missing pieces and fixing issues with the Select a World view and the Make a...
- Nov 15, 2012
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By Jordana Kerr
There’s a strong indication that being involved or identifying with a subgroup within an online community increases the chances that a member will stay active within that community,...
- Nov 08, 2012
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What's Currently Wrong with Our Tutorials
This week I'm in the process of trying to trim down our tutorials into something that is more manageable and less over-whelming to our users. The basic assumption here is that our tutorials...
- Nov 01, 2012
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Kids Technical University Debrief
I had the pleasure and honor of spending last Saturday at Virginia State University's Kids Technical University giving a talk on Computer Sciencein the World to a fun group of kids. I am pleased to...
- Oct 18, 2012
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By Jordana Kerr
Here are video tutorials explaining how to get started, build a custom scene, and add animations to your story. This post will soon include remixing and sharing to the community. Soon, these...
- Aug 04, 2012
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Video Tutorials (A sneak peek!)
By Jordana Kerr
Here is a sneak peek at the video tutorial resources to come! Voice directions and captions will be added, and these videos will be adjusted and tailored a bit visually, but they're a good starting...
- Jul 24, 2012
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By Reilly Ellis
After creating the storytelling badges as a whole last week, this week was all about defining the details and drawing designs. I spent some time parsing out what the individual skills would be...
- Jul 05, 2012
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Week 5: Test Editor Interface Walkthrough
Fictitious mentor: Sam Fictitious mentee: Kate Authoring Process One day, Sam notices that Kate’s world includes redundant code. Each of Kate’s twelve characters says...
- Jun 28, 2012
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By Michael Liu
To encourage users to use the remix visualization, it needs to be somehow both interactive and educational. The evolutionary history of a world is unlikely to be that interesting to most children....
- Jun 22, 2012
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This week, I felt I took a step into what it actually means to do research work as a computer scientist, specifically in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. First of all, I learned how...
- Jun 21, 2012
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By Reilly Ellis
After the meeting last week, I started out this week trying to tame the snarl of badges thoughts that were whirling about in my brain. Here is the (simple) story of how badges work. User Jenny...
- Jun 07, 2012
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Welcome to the Looking Glass Community
By Jordana Kerr
Welcome! Looking Glass is an interactive 3D programming environment for novice programmers in and around the middle school age. The Looking Glass Community is designed to support Looking Glass...
- May 28, 2012
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