[Using Sakai] Learning Activities Investigation: Tues 10/6 meeting for end user interviewers, Monday 10/12 meeting for benchmarkers

[kamann at stanford.edu]

Hello
Thanks again to those who came to the Kickoff meeting. The follow up meetings will be one of two types

1) End User Interviewer meeting: Tues 10/6 and 10/14, 9 AM Pacific (-7 GMT)
 If you are interested in conducting end-user interviews (aka contextual inquiries) on your campus, please come to at least one of the next two meetings October 6 and October 14, both if you can. On 10/6, we'll be asking for your thoughts on the interviewee matrix (including the types of users you think you will be able to interview on your campus) as well as the guidelines for conducting the contextual inquiry. On 10/14, we should have a better idea of who you might really be talking to. We should be starting interviews in the second half of October.

If you are coming to either meeting, please add your name to the attendees list at the meeting page, where you'll find meeting details (same as last time, but no breeze room)

October 6
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/October+6%2C+2009. 

October 12
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/October+13%2C+2009


2) Benchmarking: Monday 10/12 9 AM Pacific (-7 GMT)
 We haven't given as much thought to the benchmarking process as we have the end user interviews. The benchmarking is to see what other systems people are using, why they are using them, and to find out what works and doesn't work. Our initial thought was to create a matrix, but another more recent thought was that we might have a show and tell, where the 3 other institutions that have indicated interest in participating (HEC Montreal, Weber State, Indiana) in this give us a screen tour of their system. I would propose a meeting next Monday where each of us gets 10 minutes to show their app--please let us know if this is of interest and I will follow up with those who do.


Keli Amann & Jackie Mai
User Experience Specialists
Academic Computing, Stanford University