Thesis Final Steps

Where: MAGNET 821

Participants: Gui Bueno, Nicole Pallares, Shashank Pawar

Duration: 60min

Topics:

  • Show my progress and the feedback I got from Maaike
  • Ask for general help/tips in structuring work during these final steps
  • How should I make my evaluation section?
  • How should I make my design rationale section?
Rationale Evaluation


Results:

  • Mention my website in EVALUATION: feedback from peers, committee members, etc.
  • Describe how submiting parts of the project for feedback has helped in my design process
  • Also, add the feedback I've gotten from UX workshop and from user tests with friends
  • The website was also a way to accomplish personal goals: learn coding, versioning control, etc.
  • Change the language tone: not 'This is a draft', but 'my experience as a teacher tells me that'
  • Pre-questionnaire and Test Plan should go in the document as APPENDICES
  • Use the evaluation section to create a narrative / tell a story about the design process
  • Shashank: add 'Introducing a new way to tackle language learning' in the introduction section
  • Nicole agreed with Shashank's suggestion to talk about opportunities, not problems
  • Rationale: Explain my general design and answer why I chose that
  • Mention, once again, experience as language teacher, having observed succes in this approach
  • Walk through the method/prototype, just like I did in class in my individual focus presentation
  • Mention my most important learning theories, such as scaffolding, ZPD, priming, subliminar, ...
  • Move the NOT A METHOD item from INTRODUCTION section to the DESIGN RATIONALE section