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4.27.03
Research-
Student performing double-blind experiments - very difficult to find anything on this because so many hits come up that are about performing double-blind experiments ON students. Will have to continue this one.

Axiomatic design:
Here is an article comparing it to TRIZ:
http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2000/08/d/

Here is a book available at the Georgia Tech library:
Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications

Here is a short blurb on its history, definition, and how it is used:
http://www.iae.re.kr/english/news/9605Axiom.html

Here is another book in the library:
Axiomatic set theory. With a historical introd. by Abraham A. Fraenke.

PDA stuff: I actually program on an iPaq in the Design of Operating Systems class - so I have some experience with that. I can also ask him if he could point me in the direction of someone in the CoC that is very knowledgable of that kind of stuff..

Internet being down - I'm almost positive that I sent in a help request regarding our loss of internet connection at the office - but I'm not completely sure if I did. Would you mind sending one just in case?? Just say that both our Mac's network connections are broken - and that it appears that their nameserver is down (they both share the same nameserver)..

On the N. Network stuff - I was thinking that maybe a language like Matlab or Maple would be appropriate?? Im not exactly sure how you would want to use the application - so I don't know if Matlab would work or not...

from David C 1.6.03
I need for you to upload and chmod the latest version of the FCPro document "Interviews v.106" – am pretty sure of the number, and very sure it is on the Office Mac. Please email me a heads up when you get this done.
Also, send me your schedule for this week, if you please.

from: benjamin :: 12.17.2002
- rename juggling.mov to balancing.mov and put it in movie/ folder
- choose which feather movie we need, rename it to just feather.mov, delete the remaining feather movies from the movies/ folder
- we need to add chrsCont to teachingStrategies/balancingActs.html. it's a bit involved in that we need to creat rollover images, preload code, another html page. if you can't follow my code from other pages similiar to this, then don't worry about it, i'll do it tomorrow

benjamin :: 12.02.2002

edTran.mov and woodieFL.mov need to be re-exported to the correct 240x180 size. Currently, edTran.mov is too small and woodieFL.mov is too big. Thanks Cliff.

A. DITC Development
(Cant find Earl tapes) 11.27.02 Find all of the interviews in the Earl collection, and note them in Notes to Dave. These need to be compiled into 2-3 Earl Interview tapes.
(DONE 12.6.02 - With the transcripts listed here - not all of them) 11.3.02 Complete the formatting for the transcripts of the following movies, which are listed as done in MovieList Master but do not appear on the website: sWrkDay4, sWrkDay7, tDay7. Load them onto the website, with proper CHMODing, and check to make sure the links are in place within the website's MovieList.
11.3.02 Complete transcripts of expert interviews with Sadler, Kimbell, Barlex and Black. Find the paper transcripts in the white folder – computer should have the files.
(DONE 11.26.02) Waiting on Edit.. 1. Create summary of prologue from Designs for Science Literacy.

B. Research Tasks
5.20.03 Call Gutman Library re tests on file (or reference books that catalog) that measure metacognition. Let them know you have one – MAI - Metacog Assessment Inventory. If they ask, say that you work for an alum, who will call directly if needed.
(SEE NOTES) 12.3.02 Doug Prime wanted contact information on where he can get copies of all of the NSF model curricula that he might share with teachers: Challenges In Physical Science (check Phil Sadler or the publisher) and Design It! (check EDC under Bernie Zubrowski name)
(SEE NOTES 12.3.02) 11.27.02 Find any articles by Marcia Linn on using controversies with teachers in prof devel settings. Look up best review article by Marcia Linn at UC-Berkeley concerning the use of contraversies in students' learning of science.
(DONE 12.5.02) 10.19.02 Find any articles that study designers using simulations versus some other design methods (hands-on, paper drawings, etc). Refer to Kimbell's article comparing CAD-driven designing versus paper-based drawings.
(DONE 12.9.02) 2. 9.21.02 Ask GaTech reference librarian which databases to search for articles on tinkering with mechanical objects. Engineering and education databases, cognitive science and learning sciences.
(DONE 12.9.02) 3. 10.21.02 Give me the list of the NSF regional distribution centers that dole out professional development materials on newly created curriculum.
DONE (11.12.02)6. Find Nat'l Board for Professional Teaching Standards website. Look for: model videos, how they are used, whether they address design tasks, how the train administrators with them, and if there is a parents edition.
7. Research Design misunderstandings. Look for articles in cognitive psychology, and engineering education databases. Which database serves engineering education? Which ones serve Journal of the Learning Sciences, Cognition and Instruction, ect.? International Technology Education.

C. Office Work
5.20.03 Collect all articles/files from my NARST 03 trip on Nature of Science tests, and related articles. This will include a DVD disk, which I'd like you to print out the key documents from. Please put this into a vertical file named "Nature of Science Tests"
11.28.02 Help me find the tape with footage of the Johnson-Laird talk at its end. I think it was tacked onto the end of some classroom footage. Search the GaTeech website for the date of the talk, and then look at tapes made up to three 3 weeks before that date. Hands over the third tape when found.
9.17.02 Collect names of all the manila folders. Then, incorporate Lisa Frontado's suggestions, when you receive them by email, oni organizing headings for folders in vertical files.
On-Going STORE all audio/video equipment and charge all batteries.
On-Going Organize all audio/video equipment and accessories (wires, batteries, tapes) for shoots.