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    First two days of Starter Project

    By Shannon Gray

    My two week starter project is to: first, rethinking the remix process, making it more streamlined, etc.; and second, once the badges and rules are introduced, to be able to generate custom...

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    Lots of Scribbled Notes and Sketches.......

    By Shannon Gray

        I spent most of my time this week brainstorming, sketching,  and brainstorming some more about specific aspects of the remix process. Things to add, things to remove, things...

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    Project Proposal (redo)

    By Shannon Gray

    High-level problem: For my project, I want to do two things.  The first is to finish revamping the remix process and second, to look into the idea of personalized tutorials.  Therefore,...

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    Project Stuff and User Studies

    By Shannon Gray

      This week I started off with editing a few aspects of my proposal, and making some worlds for the User Study that I was helping conduct on Thursday.  I had various restrictions to...

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    Minimalistic Tutorials and More User Studies

    By Shannon Gray

      This past week I did a lot of swapping back and forth between user study stuff and working on my project, like the last week.  However, as we are progressing, I am finding out that the...

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    More User Studies and a bit of Personalization

    By Shannon Gray

      Working on the user study stuff took up pretty much all of this week.  I started off fixing an issue we were having in the user studies with procedures.  The participants were...

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    Work on the User Model

    By Shannon Gray

           Last Friday began with another user study.  Caitlin, Kyle and I then met to discuss where to go from there, and the changes we would need to make before...

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    User Studies and End of the Line Plans

    By Shannon Gray

    I did a lot of random stuff on Monday. I started working on the official user study script of what we are going to say at each user study.  Printed out the transfer task worlds from all of our...

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    Tutorial Generation Work

    By Shannon Gray

    This week I spent a lot of time going through the code of the BlocktStatementGenerator, and trying to figure out how it was generating tutorial steps.  This is where I will eventually need to...

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    Finishing Up Stuff

    By Shannon Gray

    This week was spent finishing up various parts of my research experience.  On Monday, Kyle and I went through all of our user study data and entered it into excel.  Removing the mercy...