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=Notes on Research and Planning= CCT 693: Evaluation of Educational Policy and Change //Last Updated:// 2 April 2007

Project Description
I plan to provide an online forum for people to discuss, research, and contact local area electricians. To engage the user population, I have decided to approach the project as an online learning community. This perspective allows me to leverage best practices from education while at the same time building a constituency of informed, active teacher-students whose content will drive the site. Because the user community will supply most of the content, I hope my site will host useful, high-quality, trustworthy information that would otherwise be difficult to find.

Class Presentations
[|Presentation Notes]: (March 26) Includes an overview of the project, a hint of the underlying motivation and educational theory. Rationale behind my (eventual) surveys and persona design, with working-draft example.

Class Assignments
[|Project Description] [|KAFQ Matrix] [|Evaluation Clock]

Related Links
[|The Origin of Personas] An article about Alan Cooper's method of personas in design by the man himself. [|Visual Complexity], a gallery of complex data sets and associated visualizations. [|Ben Fry], an archive of work developed by a doctoral student at the [|MIT Media Lab] researching computational information design. [|Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces], a group of people working to design and build ways of interacting with computers starting from an understanding of the needs and frailties of the human mind. [|My blog]. Just for my ego's sake.