voyeurism

blown away

had my first preview of the software which Jason has been working on all these past months.

we're going to launch it at the AGM / Annual Seminar of the Geography Teachers' Association of Singapore this coming Saturday :-)

i know i should have expected as much, but i was still blown away this first time i played with the game. and so was Richard, who's the lawyer we have engaged to oversee the intellectual property of the software (won't reveal the name to you yet :-) )

i would also like to thank Yen Ling, who's another lawyer. she helped us with the licence agreement for the demo copies we're going to distribute this Saturday.

meanwhile, the pre-tests are over for Fuchun, and we've just started the orienteering tasks.

i'm happy to say that the geography pupils of 3E1/E2 are doing very well in the orienteering tasks so far. i'm also relieved that my final two routes - Jurong East and Pasir Panjang - have proved workable (yet to try the SAC at these two locales, though - that will be next month).

today, Mr Zainudin (the teacher-in-charge at Fuchun) told me that some of the pupils had enjoyed the orienteering tasks so much that they had expressed the wish to go for a second round :-)

pilot on final approach

had another meeting with john yesterday - all the transcripts from the pilot have been generated, and we had a discussion about how to analyse the data from the orienteering tasks and the Academic Controversy tasks. i am clear how to use the data from the orienteering tasks, but am still trying to understand what to do with the data from the latter - i can't analyse them with respect to the quality of the debate because the technology sometimes gets in the way of the debate. so instead i am tentatively thinking of concentrating on the nature of the evidence selected and presented.

for the remaining three schools, i'll be using Newater, instead of regular bottled water.

this week i'm doing the post-tests. next week is their peer critique session, as they craft their final product for sharing with their classmates. was having second thoughts about whether to go ahead with my original idea of pasting the transcripted messages from the Academic Controversy task on to a large map of each study area. might it be more trouble than it is worth? in the end, the two of us decided it was still a good idea, anyway, that's what pilots are for.