Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Catching up after final exams week!

The semester is over, but we are catching up on our hours and work since we took last week off to study and take our final exams.  Our submission to the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) was accepted!  We are registered and made our travel registrations.  We will present the poster in February, so we will be able to include the December bug data on our poster and present results for a complete semester! 

Now that the tutor lab is closed for the semester, we are caught up on the classifications of the tutor log forms for December.  We are back-tracking though because we want to go back to identify the min, max, and avg amount of time students spent on each class of bugs.  We think that not only the frequency of bugs are important to learn, but we also want to know the types of bugs that consumed the most time.

We are also working on the website.  It is in limbo right now because we are redesigning it.  We have two types of movies to post: (1) a step-by-step movie that shows how to find a bug (we made it with Camtasia Studio) and (2) a Flash video that is an interactive approach to teaching students about bugs.  Our first step-by-step movie is down, but we are still trying to finish our Flash movie.  We all watched the video and have been pair programming together, but we still need to solve our problem of making a link on a button in it. We are close to getting over the learning curve and once we do, we should be able to make the Flash movies quicker.

Finally, we are working on our mid-year surveys and will complete them this week.

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