Final Stages Testing:
Minutes from the meeting with Ms Bryan 4/30/04

1. 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.
   .
2. She liked our suggestion about the load meter instead of the
   display of pounds.  We will fix this.
   .
3. 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.
   .
4. She liked the dictionary and clickable words which we had already
   implemented by the time of our meeting.
   
5. 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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6. She asked us to change the tank to an elephant because of possible
   war implications...Done
   .
7. 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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8. 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.
   .
9. 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.
   .
10. 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.
    .
11. 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.