caitlin's Blog
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Reading, writing, arithmetic, and programming?
I believe that basic programming should be a skill that most adults have. We don't all prove new theorems, but we can use math to solve problems that arise in daily life. We won't all publish...
- May 31, 2012
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Stencils as Annotations, Not Interfaces
Originally, when we created Stencils (the overlay through which we present tutorials - first in Storytelling Alice, then in Alice 2, 3, and Looking Glass), they were intended to serve the purpose...
- Jun 08, 2012
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Kyle and Shannon have been running some user tests that are intended to focus primarily on the tutorials but are running into difficulties with the current remix process. In a lot of ways this...
- Jun 28, 2012
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Some Thoughts on Rules for Offering Suggestions
Sometimes experienced users can glance at what you're doing and see an opportunity that you had no idea existed before their suggestion. Currently, this is something that computing environments...
- Jul 06, 2012
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Michelle has recently joined us (yay!) and we've been starting to put together a formative study to explore how potential Looking Glass mentors (CS domain experts who are working with one specific...
- Jul 13, 2012
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Supporting Novice and Expert Remixing
One of the really common struggles in designing interfaces is the tradeoffs between making complex things approachable for novice users, while not constraining expert users too much. When we first...
- Jul 20, 2012
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Online Computer Science for 100,000 7th Graders?
In the wake of the success of the online Stanford AI course and some great discussion on how to build on it at the Google Faculty Summit, I find myself asking more seriously: what would it take to...
- Aug 02, 2012
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Jordana, Michelle and I are working through a social web class as an independent study this semester. The first part of the course focuses heavily on wikipedia so we've been reading and they've...
- Sep 14, 2012
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I've been playing a supporting role in the papers that went out this week. And, in the semi-calm after the storm starting to consider what the next thing to tackle should be. I am currently leaning...
- Sep 21, 2012
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The online community went up for the first time in February of this year. And, in the months since then it's become more and more deeply engrained in how we imagine the system and the overall user...
- Sep 28, 2012
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Caitlin Kelleher
Caitlin is the Urbauer Career Development Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and leads the Looking Glass project.
- Joined Feb 23, 2012
- 19 Posts
