CS92: Bridges!
in conjuction with the Lincoln School |
Erin Carey,
Diana Chien,
Jason Li |
Final Stages Testing:
Minutes from the meeting with Ms Bryan 4/30/04
- She did not like the idea of a help mode because she thought it
would actually confuse them more. She said, all they need to know, for
example is that they are using stone/steel/glass etc.
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- She liked our suggestion about the load meter instead of the
display of pounds. We will fix this.
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- As far as the display of loads, she said that if she had to choose
between the characters moving across screen and the children picking and
plopping, she would prefer the walking...but we will brainstorm a little
on this to see if there's anything we can do. She also said what we
were thinking, which was that she didn't want the goal of the program to
be simply to break the bridge, but to see different situations presented
and discover what happens.
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- She liked the dictionary and clickable words which we had already
implemented by the time of our meeting.
- She liked the audio we had recorded and our ideas of
implementation (ie, the screens are read..and words said as they scroll
over them)
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- She asked us to change the tank to an elephant because of possible
war implications...Done
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- We discussed how to represent multiple loads and she likes the idea
best of making the objects bigger and then showing a representation icon
depicting how much it is worth.
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- We asked about the same loads for all the time periods and she said
she liked the continuity. She said her students were smart enough to
realize that.
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- As far as the bridge broken screen...she said noting scary because
the girls are very nervous about bridges breaking in general and she
would rather be displaying that the bridge breaks under very heavy
loads, with other materials...etc rather than a flashy, possibly
upsetting screen.
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- We brought up the issue of rewards, because it seems to always
come up when talking about our project in class, and she confirmed that
it was not the aim of the program. She wants a reinforcement that can
guide their exploration, not so much a game. She pointed out that they
had plenty of reward based activities in the classroom, and would prefer
the program remain unchanged in that regard.
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- We asked for anything she would like to see changed and said that
our ideas are all she could have thought of and that she was very
pleased.
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