CS10K Information Architecture Task Force Meeting January 11, 2016
Agenda AIR Website Redesign Team The Task Force CS10K Community Site: Mission, Vision, Values and Goals Iteration III Plan: Requirements Gathering Next Steps
AIR Website Redesign Team Okori Christopher (Site Redesign) Maria Payri Alvarez (Site Maintenance) Michelle Perry (Usability Testing)
The Task Force A virtual group of CS10K community site power users Formed to: ensure a community-driven experience Align the site’s information architecture with community needs Support requirements gathering Inform interaction design decisions Four meetings: January – May 2016 Occasional written feedback in between meetings
Cohort II Task Force Members Sean Morris Gail Chapman Maureen Psaila-Dombrowski Eric Snow Leslie Keller Josh Paley Art Lopez
CS10K Community Site: Mission, Vision, Values and Goals Mission: Provide an online platform to support capacity building for NSF’s CS10K initiative Vision: Where teachers of ECS and CSP can: Connect with each other and with the resources and expertise they need to excel Get answers to their burning questions Share their experiences Work together to develop materials and strategies they need to embrace powerful pedagogies Get students engaged with exciting technologies Make the case to potential students and to school leaders that computer science education is integral to preparing future leaders Poll: In which of these areas could the community improve its efforts to realize this vision?
CS10K Community Site: Mission, Vision, Values and Goals What do you view as the mission of the CS10K community website? What is your vision for the community? What values should the community reflect and promote (e.g., collaborative instructional resource and assessment development, broadening participation)? Poll: What should be the primary goals of the community website (Choose 3)?
Iteration III Planning Draft Plan Requirements Gathering
Draft Iteration III Plan: Key Tasks Resources Standardize resource creation to improve resource quality and searchability (e.g., lesson plan template) Groups Add group productivity indicators to the Groups page Add group messaging functionality for group administrators Blog Add “Other Posts by Author” block Improve “Related Content” block
Draft Iteration III Plan: Key Tasks Favorites Develop Favorites functionality (e.g., add favorites page, view favorites on profile and My Activity page) New Teacher Content Create a New Teacher/Getting Started page Develop a tagging system and icon for new teacher content Other Add Twitter Feed
Iteration III: Requirements Gathering Merging the Groups and Projects pages By what criteria or categories would you like to be able to search for groups or projects? Responsive Design Considerations for an Interactive CSP Curriculum Framework To what extent would you like the framework to be mobile-friendly? Supporting Crowdsourced Questions (e.g., stackoverflow) What features appeal to you the most? My Activity/Activity Feed Does the proposed functionality make sense? Is it appropriate to differentiate My Activity? If so, are these the rights personas /user types?
My Activity: Proposed Differentiated Functionality Teachers new to CS Content suggestions based on expressed interests Feed from group through which they entered the community Experienced CS teachers new to ECS or CSP Latest info from projects and groups Published and draft journals NSF CS10K Project Leaders What projects members are doing Latest info from projects and groups Resource collections and resources Bloggers Published posts
Activity Feed: Proposed Functionality Add list of favorites Login directs user to Activity Feed instead of My Activity Add Share buttons Add ability to “like” things in my feed Add ability to “follow” content or users Option to view only followed content and users
Next Steps Iteration III development Provide feedback on new tagging systems and mock-ups (via ) Next Meeting February TBD Poll: Potential Topics