Brinkman 1-20-12 Report

1. What did you plan to do this week?
- Write Android sections of GG final report
- Write Table Tilt paper

2. What did you do?
- Wrote Android sections of GG final report
- Wrote short Table Tilt paper for FDG Experimental Game entry
- Helped Veronica prepare SPARCs materials and create pre/post tests

3. Problems encountered?
- Finding a LaTeX editor that worked well in Windows

4. What do you plan to do next week?
- Extend Android functionality to include "extras" that were cut out of last semester's schedule
- More Android testing

5. How many hours did you work?
~18

Katie Doran Weekly Report 1/13 - 1/19

1. What did you plan to do this week?

- Submit ITiCSE paper (deadline early on 1/14)

- Submit abstract to grad research fair (deadline 1/18)

- Identify target conferences for this semester

- Assist in Global Game Jam preparations

2. What did you do?

- Finished and submitted paper to ITiCSE on Citizen Schools work

- Submitted an abstract for a poster to the Grad Research Fair (also on outreach)

- Identified several target publications (see #6)

- Have finalized nearly all details for GGJ, secured funding for advertising (unfortunately not for food, but may already have another source for that), contacted Journalism professors about students to assist in interviews for a paper on GGJ & Creativity

3. Problems encountered?

- Format of data from Citizen Schools made it impossible for me to calculate the statistical significance of my results, weakening the impact of the ITiCSE paper

4. What do you plan to do next week

- Finalize all Citizen Schools lesson plans for this semester of outreach and put them online

- Make plans for a short-paper submission to GAS on our work creating a game-based digital layer for the museum (deadline 2/17)

- Investigate feasibility of a study on learning benefits of Citizen Schools outreach for the instructors

- Global Game Jam event & study

- Citizen Schools WOW! training

- Set up new devices for outreach use

- Contact Mike Kubiak from Citizen Schools data collection office to determine what data I need and, out of that, what I can get (what I received most recently was good, but did not have all the information I would like to capture)

5. How many hours did you work?

~12 hours

6. What publication venues are you targeting and for what papers?

- GAS 2012, short paper (4 pages) - Creation of a Game-Based Digital Layer for a Science Museum (deadline 2/17)

- ICER 2012, discussion paper (6 pages) - Better Understanding through Outreach: learning gains among instructors of computer science outreach (deadline 4/20)

- Meaningful Play 2012, extended abstract (500+ words) - I'd like to submit a paper on OLPC serious games for Haiti, but this depends on me creating such a game before our spring break trip...which I plan to do, but may or may not be successful (deadline 7/16)

- A D.C. somewhere? Maybe ICER?