Hello world! We are team ArchiTek.
Welcome to the first blog post of team ArchiTek!
Our project for this semester is about technology enhanced learning. We work with Professor Kristen Kurland to explore the topic of allowing students to take online tests for assessment beyond the university blackboard during the semester.
Our academic instructor on the project is Mike Christel. Our client is Kristen Kurland, professor of Heinz College. Our goal is to develop a highly interactive and interesting quiz system to help Kristen know how well the students have prepared for the course. Also, students are allowed to remediate if they are not correct for the first time.
Our team: Boyao Chu (programmer), Jiawei (Candice) Li (artist), KJ Liu (programmer), Ziqi (Michael) Ma (producer and writer)
The updates of our work these weeks can be summed up as follows:
- We settled on our team name: ArchiTek.
- We scheduled team core hours, weekly instructor meeting time and weekly client meeting time.
- We met with instructors, Mike and Jessica, to discuss project contents and past projects’ experience.
- We met Kristen, our client, to get familiar with what she wants to enhance her course.
- All of us attended the Playtest to Explore workshop, where we learned how to gather and present our ideas at the very beginning of a project.
Programming:
- Clarified what tools and language should be used.
- Looked up AMC library to check others’ experience.
Art & Sound
- 2D style
- Badge system
- Use more pictures and videos instead of just words for the tests.
Design
We came up with five ideas:
- Leader Board style interface
Three people construct 3D building. Each people takes charge of one feature. Each people gets separate score.
Pros: Straightforward. General.
Cons: Not specific enough.
- Design based on each question
Add interesting component to each question. We can add something such as visual effects, digital timer, cartoon style components and some other interactive experience thing.
Pros: Very specific. Interesting.
Cons: Not general. Question cannot be changed.
- Bomb Simulation
There is a bomb hiding somewhere on the map.
- Giving students three or four types of data to ask them try to analyze where the bomb should be. We collect all maps and show students every map. And they should give an answer where the bomb might be and choose three maps they like most (feedback).
- Given some data, two teams will play a game. One team will choose where to put bomb to maximize the damage and the other will try to guess where the bomb should be and give their reason.(topic)
Pros: Interesting. Problem solving.
Cons: May influence the accuracy of exam.
- Constructing simulation
Given a new land, student will choose the data they want to show on the map and give the reason. After showing data on the map they will conclude what they have found on the map and what they think should be done next (scale, color).
Pros: Can test students’ understanding of GIS.
Cons: Many uncertain points.
- Quiz online webpage or app(like Duolingo)
Pros: Teachers can track students’ learning process with leaderboard
Students can review their wrong answers
The experience system can show them their own process.
Offer students questions according to their previous accuracy.
Cons: maybe need to be more creative(duolingo, coursera, etc.)
In week 2, we narrowed down on the fifth idea.