Wiki source code of Umbrella Project - Ideas and Tasks

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 1: 1.1 Members
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 3: Kyuhan Koh, Jane Meyers, Jeff Hoehl, Catharine Starbird, Antonio González, Olga Liskin, George McCabe, 
 4: Walter Mahfuz, Mikel King
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 7: 1.1 Description
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11: Our "Umbrella" Project looks to examine, compare, and contrast motivations for contribution in two different environments.
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14: ~~Storytelling in social networks~~
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16: We want to study what motivates individuals to actively participate in
17: social networks, possibly by studying participation on YouTube and/or
18: Facebook. By actively we mean that individuals not only browse content
19: but actively respond and maintain interest for at least a short period
20: of time. We want to examine existing participation activities and then
21: seed discussions, varying both context and framing, and measuring the
22: differences between contributions.
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24: ~~Game Creation in a Classroom Environment with a Public Wiki~~
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26: We will explore the factors motivating students in classroom with the ideas 
27: of 'open designed classroom'. The course, game programming for education 
28: purpose offered by Dr. Lewis and Dr. Repenning would be used for this class 
29: project. Unlike traditional classroom, students can share their assignments, 
30: feedback, and rate each other in this course. Similarly to other web 2.0 sites, 
31: students collaborate actively or at least passively for their assignments. 
32: We want to observe which factor encourages students to engage and/or contribute 
33: in the class actively and collaborate each other.
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35: ~~Researching other Socially Networking Programming Environments~~
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37: Scratch. Alice. Squeak. New design for socially networked programming. 
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40: ~~Social Creativity through Google Sketchup and 3D warehouse~~
41: I'm not sure this is the right place we are supposed to wrap up our final paper. 
42: We have Olga's group report here. 
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45: ~~Bringing it Together~~
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47: The main goal of our project is to gain a better understanding of what
48: motivates people to actively participate both in online, social
49: networking environments and in the classroom. In the social networking
50: environment we define "active" as either the creation of new content,
51: the reuse of existing content, or a response to existing content.
52: Within the classroom, "active" participation is defined as the sharing
53: and reuse of existing work ???. Although these projects are quite
54: different our goal is to study these environments in parallel analyze
55: them with similar techniques, and draw conclusions that universal to
56: motivation and also those distinct to the individual domains.
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58: A significant overlap between both projects will be
59: determining systems to analyze the flow of contributions. In the social
60: networking environment, these contributions will build on each other,
61: creating an artifact or a series of artifacts. In the class programming
62: environment, each student has the ability to see the contributions of
63: other students and to borrow and reuse their code. In both environments
64: there is a flow of knowledge and creation. We will have to develop a
65: mechanism or mechanisms to locate and analyze this creativity flow.
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71: 1.1 Materials/Links
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73: * [Project Presentation on Monday]
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79: 1.1 Tasks
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81: Storytelling
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83: research - background\\creating / deploying / seeding\\scraping\\OVERLAP - analyzing\\  survey / feedback
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85: flow of information / knowledge / active? collaboration\\  motivations? willingness to participate
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87: reflection\\           
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90: \\Code-building / sharing - classroom wiki
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92: research - background\\creating / distributing / reusing \\ Knowledge building and sharing \\OVERLAP - analyzing\\  survey / Flow of Inspiration Priciples / knowledge / collaboration, competition, inspiration\\
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