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Title: Teach Alabama: Conceptual Model


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Teach AlabamaConceptual Model
  • By Andrea Williams
  • Kinnis Gosha
  • Wanda Eugene

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Project Description
  • In the state of Alabama, educators can utilize
    the resources provided by professional
    development communities. It is encourage that you
    use this website to gather, learn, collaborate,
    share, and support one another in fostering
    learning. We will provide learning material which
    can be shared to promote networking in specific
    subject areas from school to school. This network
    provides an opportunity to share lesson plans and
    curricula aids. Our goal is to create a user
    interface that stores content for new systems to
    support middle and high school students in
    preparing for the Alabama exit exam and
    supporting their teachers in this effort.

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Project Description contd
  • The Teach Alabama Website Design and
    Implementation Project is centered about creating
    a user interface that will facilitate computer
    supported collaborative work for teachers in
    Alabama school system. It will serve as an online
    professional development community for K-12
    Educators in the state of Alabama. We will study
    existing similar websites and the provided
    content and create a conceptual model to
    illustrate our design. Our conceptual model will
    be presented to the user for validation and
    verification. After our conceptual model is
    validated, we will create this web presence and
    store the associated content.

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Lexicon
  • AHSGE Alabama High School Graduation Exam,
    required for any student who was a ninth grader
    on or after the 1997-1998 scholastic year, test
    students on the eleventh-grade level.
  • Computer Supportive Collaborative Work a generic
    term, which combines the understanding of the way
    people work in groups with the enabling
    technologies of computer networking, and
    associated hardware, software, services and
    techniques.
  • Curricula aids Help, support, or relief provided
    for the courses of study offered by an
    educational institution.
  • Education the activities of educating or
    instructing or teaching activities that impart
    knowledge or skill
  • Middle School A school at a level between
    elementary and high school, typically including
    grades five through eight or grades six through
    eight, serving as a bridge between the two.
  • Lesson Plan A lesson plan is a detailed
    description of a teacher's activity for a given
    day, week or unit.
  • Virtual Community a group whose participants are
    engaged in a dialog by means of information
    technologies, typically the Internet, to share
    information and values.
  • User Interface Design The overall process of
    designing how users interact with computers,
    devices and machines.
  • Praxis The Praxis series of tests are
    professional assessments for beginning teachers.
    They are a set of rigorous and carefully
    validated assessments that provides accurate,
    reliable information for use by state education
    agencies in making licensing decisions.

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System Specification Hardware
  • Minimum RAM 128 mega bytes (MB)
  • PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock
    speed recommended 233 MHz minimum required
    (single or dual processor system) Intel
    Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron
    family, or compatible processor recommended
  • Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video
    adapter (32 bit video card) and monitor
  • Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible
    pointing device

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System Specification Software
  • Word processing program
  • Internet browser
  • Document reader
  • Media Player
  • or any compatible software

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System Design
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver software
  • From an existing site
  • http//www.auburn.edu/harmoch/comp6620/teachprep/
  • Challenges
  • Collecting consistent and organized content from
    other research students working with client
  • Displaying the content in a consistent and
    organized manner
  • Achieving some of the desired goals of the client
    within our time budget

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Heuristic Evaluations
  • Pros
  • Good Tabbing and design
  • Attractive
  • Simple and intuitive
  • Well designed layout
  • Cons
  • Too much white space
  • Bland colors
  • Hard to find the tour at the bottom

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Usability Testing
  • Remote Testing done with 9 users
  • 4 teachers (high school, college)
  • 5 college students (undergraduate, graduate)
  • 4 were usability experts
  • Background Survey
  • 4 short structured tasks
  • Specific tasks designed to test particular
    features of the site
  • Final Reaction Survey

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Testing Results (Background Survey)
  • Average age of user 33 years old
  • All users had PC experience
  • Average years of computer usage 13 yrs
  • All had experience using a Word Processor
  • 7 users have used computers in classroom
    settings, 1 had not, and 1 did not respond

0-1 2-3 4-5 6 or more
Computer usage a week 100
Computer usage an hour 11 77
Documents created for classroom usage 11 11 66
Internet usage 11 11 77
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Testing Results (Final Reaction Survey)
Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
Site was easy to use and learn 33 22 33
It was easy to get started 44 44
Site is easy to use for beginners w/ minimal computer knowledge 11 55 11 22
It was hard to recover from errors 11 11 22 44 11
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More Results (Final Reaction Survey)
1(lo) 2 3 4 5 (hi)
Terrible Wonderful 33 22 44
Frustrating Satisfying 22 22 55
Difficult Easy 55 11 33
  • Least interesting
  • Rollover links arent consistent
  • Lack of visuals
  • Too much white space
  • Too much text (try bulleting)
  • Menu tag reactions, dead links
  • Bland colors
  • Prototype or application?
  • Most interesting
  • Really good design (links, layout, text)
  • Very effective and useful for teachers
  • Good amount of information
  • Attractive colors, good contrast
  • Has a tour
  • Very comfortable, easy to read
  • Intuitive, self-explanatory, conventional

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Redesign efforts
  • Menu tag reaction (tab changes color)
  • Add more emphasis to working links (subject
    objectives)
  • Add more pictures to fill white space (pictures
    from actual Alabama students)
  • Links with dead ends refer to actual locations

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Final Product
  • http//www.goshanet.com/csci/classes/userinterface
    /index.html
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