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    Learning without a Teacher

    By Michelle Ichinco

    One of our main goals is for kids to understand how to use the features of Looking Glass, such as drag-and-drop, play and remix. However, even if they can successfully create a basic animation,...

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    Paper Writing

    By Michelle Ichinco

    After finishing up user studies for the Mentoring rule-writing API, I've been working on writing the paper. The two main parts I have been struggling with are framing the study/contribution and the...

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    Data Analysis

    By Michelle Ichinco

    While I worked a bit on data analysis last week, by labeling and categorizing the structure of the rules mentors wrote, this week, Caitlin and I got into the meat of the quality of suggestions and...

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    When to Recommend Mentor Suggestions

    By Michelle Ichinco

    Last night Kyle and I submitted our papers to CHI (yayyy)!    My paper was on the study I ran mostly in July/August where we had expert programmers make suggestions on how Looking Glass...

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    Informing Design with Data

    By Michelle Ichinco

    After spending so much time working with the results of our exploratory rules study, I was pretty excited to apply some of what we found to the design of the mentoring system and interface. Patrick...

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    Thinking and Sketching

    By Michelle Ichinco

    This week I have been trying to really sketch out what the mentoring interface looks like, specifically so that mentors can efficiently and productively collaborate on suggestions and rules. I did...

  • Michelle Ichinco

    Thinking and Sketching

    By Michelle Ichinco

    This week I have been trying to really sketch out what the mentoring interface looks like, specifically so that mentors can efficiently and productively collaborate on suggestions and rules. I did...

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    Simplifying

    By Michelle Ichinco

    After presenting preliminary designs last week, I was struggling with the fact that this process can get kind of long and unweildy. While mentors will be domain experts in programming, if they...

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    Resolving the Design

    By Michelle Ichinco

    This week I started turning my drawings into what Looking Glass would look like with the designs, since this sometimes helps me figure out whether pieces of the design are realistic. I also started...

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    Implementing

    By Michelle Ichinco

    This week I've been working on implementing the design for mentors to view and create suggestions. I started off working on the "Select a World" view, where mentors choose one if their student's...