VMTGroupB

From VMT

The Math Forum VMT Spring Fest 2006 was held in May and June of 2006.

A number of groups participated from the US, Singapore and Scotland. Each team met online for four hour-long sessions to discuss patterns. Team B tied for first place, winning iPods for all members.

The topic for the Spring Fest is available at: topic.doc The topic page includes links to three wiki pages that were used by the teams to share their findings: wiki rows, wiki patterns, wiki problem ideas.

A spreadsheet containing a chat log of Team B's sessions is available at: teamb.xls or: teamb_new.xls The spreadsheet includes a column for you to add comments. The spreadsheet is formatted for printing.

teamb_columns.xls This spreadsheet includes a column for each participant and posting start/stop times. The spreadsheet is formatted for printing (92 pages long).

Other spreadsheets containing the chat log of Team B's sessions can be made by reading-in these html files: teamb_column.html teamb_list.html

To replay the sessions in real-time, showing the chat, whiteboard and awareness messages:

1. Download the session data .jno file to your desktop by clicking here: teamb.jno
2. Then download the player software: VMT Player v1 (2006)
3. Then use the player applet to open the teamb.jno file.

If you have any questions or problems, please contact me at Gerry.Stahl@drexel.edu If you would like to share any analysis you do of this data, please send me a copy and I will link to it below. Please acknowledge the Virtual Math Teams project at the Math Forum in any publication involving this data.

Publications and Analyses of this data:

1. A micro-analysis of the reference structure of a 3 minute excerpt from Team B, session 3 (an expanded version of Gerry Stahl's CSCL 2007 paper): Chapter 26.doc
2. An analysis of the representational practices in the 4-hour chat of Team B (a chapter by Dan Suthers and colleagues for the edited volume on "Studying Virtual Math Teams"): Chapter 10.doc
3. A talk by Gerry Stahl at a symposium on generalization at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder -- available at: PowerPoint slides
4. The original paper by Gerry Stahl at CSCL 2007 -- available at: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/pub/cscl07.pdf

1. Access to a pre-publication version of "Studying Virtual Math Teams" is available at: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/vmt/book/0.html

1. teamb.jno teamc.jno VMTChat.app