April 30 - May 4
This week my work involved familiarizing myself with wiEGO again (I forgot a lot over the last year I found out). After I determined where I left off last summer, I started to once again look at integrating wiEGO into Annoki. This task, while appearing seemingly small, actually involved a lot of work for me. I had to figure out how to log into the Annoki server, find the correct php and JavaScript files to modify (this consumed most of my time) and then figure out how to use php and JavaScript to pass variables from one Annoki wiki page to my applet. After this task was accomplished, I then had to figure out how to take wiEGO off of my home directory and move it to another Linux server so that it would be usable for the student experiments I will be performing later on in the year. These two tasks took me most of the week because I had to make lots of modifications to wiEGO. I have had to refactor a large portion of code (probably about 50% of the code) and come up with creative ways to allow one to have the Annoki page open, but also open up my applet and pass variables to it; for someone who had limited experience with php, this was a huge challenge. Next week's work will involve creating the CMDP website, while also refactoring more wiEGO code to make the GUI a lot more functional, as well as change the functionality of the child side of wiEGO.

May 7 - May 11
This week was more relaxed and less stressful than the previous week. Because my project is being presented to a series of elementary school teachers in the hope that it will be used in their classroom settings, I needed to become familiar with the demographic and needs of my 'clients'. I read a literary review (http://ednet.edc.gov.ab.ca/technology/emerge/resources/litreview.pdf) from the provincial government in regards to 'one-to-one' mobile computing in educational settings in Alberta and North America school districts. This paper opened by eyes towards the technological push that is occurring in elementary and junior high schools and helped me better understand where and how my software could be used. I also developed my CDMP website this week, and I will continue to work on it next week, as I have a few more things to add in. Lastly, I started working on my project plan (/proposal) which will be presented to the education faculty. I have started to work on different use case scenarios and determine how the textual and graphical information in my program will be associated. As well, I started looking at EGO's (electronic graphic organizers) that are used in other projects to determine how mine differs and what other EGO educational software is currently in use.

May 14 - May 25
From May 17th to May 23rd I was on vacation in Disneyland so I have no work to report from those days. From the 14th to 17th I worked on my project plan that I will be presenting to the Elk Island School district on May 29th. This meeting is intended to allow me to practice my 'pitching skills' as well as meet a client face to face to discuss what their needs are. I will primarily be using this meeting to set up an 'experiment' where by I can further test wiEGO usability. On the 23rd and 24th I continued to refine my project plan and create a method whereby I can easily relate/compare the graphical information to the verbatim text information and come up with a viable empirical method to determine the correctness of student answers.

May 28 - June 1
This week was a very busy week. I finished off my project plan on Monday and Tuesday and then met with the technology coordinator and principle of one of the Elk Island Middle Schools to determine what needs to be done in time for the student experiment I will be running in September - May of next year (2007 - 2008 school year). After our meeting, I realized that I had a lot of new use case capabilities that I needed to implement in wiEGO before I could test and collect data in September. We also scheduled another meeting for mid June so that I could demo the current software to the principle. After this, I had a whole collection of papers to read so that I could better understand the wiki world, educational one-to-one mobile computing initiative and teacher reports on technology in the classroom and literary teaching methods. Lastly, I met with Dr. Stroulia to determine how the wisest students and interns will be incorporated into my project, and how the data produced by my project (.xml files the students stories will be saved as) will be use in combination with another graduate students work to produce xml differencing trees. As well, I had an idea that I should try to incorporate a dictionary/thesaurus/grammar checker into wiEGO so that I can check a wider variety of answers from the students in the reading comprehension tasks within wiEGO and the EGO (electronic graphic organizers).