Chat Analysis in Virtual Math Teams

Gerry Stahl & the VMT TeamThe Math Forum @ Drexel

The I-School @ Drexel

Gerry.Stahl@drexel.edu

Goals of VMT & Workshop

• How to understand knowledge building that takes place in the VMT environment

• How to support data analysis with technology

• How to move from data, to analysis, to broader claims

• How to design technology & pedagogy to support effective group cognition online

Face-to-face Classroom• familiar people and artifacts • parallel collaboration

background issuesdisembodied text

separate diagrams

1. Avr (8:21:46 PM): Okay, I think we should start with the formula for the area of a triangle2. Sup (8:22:17 PM): ok3. Avr (8:22:28 PM): A = 1/2bh4. Avr (8:22:31 PM): I believe5. pin (8:22:35 PM): yes6. pin (8:22:37 PM): i concue7. pin (8:22:39 PM): concur*8. Avr (8:22:42 PM): then find the area of each triangle9. Avr (8:22:54 PM): oh, wait10. Sup (8:23:03 PM): the base and heigth are 9 and 12 right?11. Avr (8:23:11 PM): no12. Sup (8:23:16 PM): o13. Avr (8:23:16 PM): that's two separate triangles14. Sup (8:23:19 PM): ooo15. Sup (8:23:20 PM): ok16. Avr (8:23:21 PM): right17. Avr (8:23:27 PM): i think we have to figure out the height by ourselves18. Avr (8:23:29 PM): if possible19. pin (8:24:05 PM): i know how20. pin (8:24:09 PM): draw the altitude'21. Avr (8:24:09 PM): how?22. Avr (8:24:15 PM): right23. Sup (8:24:19 PM): proportions?24. Avr (8:24:19 PM): this is frustrating25. Avr (8:24:22 PM): I don't have enough paper26. pin (8:24:43 PM): i think i got it27. pin (8:24:54 PM): its a 30/60/90 triangle28. Avr (8:25:06 PM): I see29. pin (8:25:12 PM): so whats the formula

VMT ConcertChat

VMT Lobby of Chat Rooms

Multiple Shared Spaces

Wiki for Inter-Group

College Course with Chat, Lobby, Boards, Wiki

Morning Workshop papers – Information as a social achievement: Collaborative

information behavior in CSCL (Nan Zhou, Alan Zemel, Gerry Stahl)

– Resolving differences: Twists and turns in a synchronous online collaborative mathematics problem-solving session (Ramon Prudencio S. Toledo, Alan R. Zemel, Gerry Stahl)

– The organization of collaborative math problem-solving activities across dual interaction spaces (Murat Perit Cakir, Alan Zemel, Gerry Stahl) [download] [reviews] [ discussion ] [chat room] [wiki page] [[chat transcript (TeamC.jno)]

– Bridging: Interactional mechanisms used by online groups to sustain knowledge building over time(Johann W. Sarmiento)

– The disembodied act: Copresence and indexical symmetry in computer-mediated communication (Alan Zemel, Wes Shumar, Murat Perit Cakir)

Afternoon Workshop papers • Polyphonic Inter-Animation of Voices in Chats (Stefan Trausan-Matu)

• Model for Analysing Collaborative Knowledge Construction in a Quasi-Synchronous Chat Environment (Juan Dee Wee & Chee-Kit Looi)

• A Framework for Analyzing Interactional Processes in Online Learning (Daniel Suthers, Nathan Dwyer, Richard Medina, Ravi Vatrapu)

• Evaluating the Effect of Social Conversation on Learning, Interaction, and Perceived Interdependence in a Collaborative Math Problem Solving Environment (Rohit Kumar, Gahgene Gweon, Mahesh Joshi, Yue Cui, Adaeze Nwaigwe, Carolyn P. Rosé)

• Understanding Students’ Mathematical Ideas and Reasoning in the Online Environment of VMT-Chat (Arthur B. Powell & Frank Lai)

• Complicating Common Sense: The Theory, Practice and Politics of Critical Ethnography in CSCL (Terry Epperson)

Other Conference Presentations • Mon 9:00 -- Chat analysis in VMT workshop [intro slides] • Weds 3:30 -- Evaluating the Effect of Feedback from a CSCL Problem Solving

Environment on Learning, Interaction, and Perceived Interdependence; Gahgene Gweon, Carolyn Rose, Emil Albright, Yue Cui (see above)

• Weds 6:00 -- The Organization of Collaborative Math Problem Solving Activities across Dual Interaction Spaces; Murat Cakir, Alan Zemel, Gerry Stahl (see above)

• Thurs 10:15 -- A Framework for Eclectic Analysis of Collaborative Interaction; Daniel Suthers, Nathan Dwyer, Ravi Vatrapu

• Thurs 11:45 -- Information as a Social Achievement: Collaborative Information Behavior in CSCL; Nan Zhou, Alan Zemel, Gerry Stahl (see above)

• Thurs 11:45 -- The Disembodied Act: Copresence and Indexical Symmentry in Computer-Mediated Communication; Alan Zemel, Wesley Shumar, Murat Cakir (see above)

• Thurs 3:30 -- Meaning Making in CSCL: Conditions and Preconditions for Cognitive Processes by Groups; Gerry Stahl [download] [handout] [slides] [TeamB JNO file] [replayer]

• Fri 10:15 -- The Integration of Synchronous Communication Across Dual Interaction Spaces; Martin Mühlpfordt, Gerry Stahl [download]

• Fri 10:15 -- Creativity, Collaboration and Competence: Agency in Online Synchronous Chat Environment; Elizabeth Charles, Wesley Shumar [download]

• Fri 7:30 -- International Wine Tasting with Live Music: Browers Commons • Sat 11:00 -- ijCSCL Invited Symposium: Making Use of Productive Tensions in

CSCL; Friedrich W. Hesse, Gerry Stahl, Tim Koschmann, Dan Suthers, Peter Reimann, Jürgen Buder, Ulrike Cress [intro slides]

Workshop (& VMT) Issues • How to understand knowledge building that

takes place in the VMT environment • How to support data analysis with technology • How to move from data to analysis to broader

claims • How to design technology & pedagogy to

support effective group cognition online

• Internet Access During Workshop

– The NETID is gerrystahl and the password is Summer2007

Links

• Wiki including Workshop materials — http://vmt.mathforum.org/vmtwiki/

• VMT Lobby — http://vmt.mathforum.org/VMTLobby/

• VMT website —

http://mathforum.org/vmt/

• Gerry’s website — http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/