Untrodden 1／23 Report Manuscript ／ FB

• Comparison table with other services

• Showing people who are using the product as a secondary means if they cannot actually use it is a powerful method.

  • So in user testing, it is a must to record videos.

• It would be great if the teacher could go through the cycle of adaptation to Kineto.

  • The top priority is to go through the cycle of observing students’ movements and making improvements.

• It might be worth creating a class that deliberately makes you want to manipulate time (unavoidably).

• Future plans (transferred to Todo Before Kineto’s Final Presentation)

  • Create a comparison chart (URGENT)
  • Teacher
    • Rewrite the explanation on a board basis and ask for feedback again.
    • I want to go through the cycle, so please cooperate and help.
    • Send this message.
  • 2/1 FMS class
    • Let’s make super progress by this time and bring it to a level where it can be used.
    • Whiteboardization, sticky notes
      • If we can minimize the use of sticky notes, distribute them through TestFlight (URGENT)
    • Teachers should be able to see the movements.
  • After that
    • Solve problems related to whiteboardization, such as overlapping.
    • Go through the cycle as much as possible (let’s hurry, DO IT)

• I am Aoyama, an 11th-grade student at Gunma International High School.

• After explaining the overview, I will talk about the progress and things I would like to discuss.

• Regarding the implementation,

  • Communication is done in a text-based manner.
    • It was difficult to implement because it involved displaying messages that are synchronized with oneself on a timeline.
  • Also, although I hadn’t tried it before, I tried porting Catalyst, which can port iOS apps to Mac, and surprisingly succeeded, so now it can be used if you have a Mac or iPad.

• When trying it out at school, I sent a message to the teachers asking them to try it.

  • I sent emails to teachers of various subjects.
  • The teachers were positive about trying it, but they pointed out some points that they found confusing or difficult to understand, so I addressed those issues.
  • We discussed which subjects and what kind of class content are suitable for teachers.
  • As a conclusion, we found that classes that are open-ended or feel like open-ended are suitable. We believe that it is effective to allow students to diverge their thoughts.
  • In classes that aim to transmit information with maximum efficiency, many opinions were that other students’ writings become noise.
  • So specifically, for example, sharing interpretations of works studied in Japanese or predicting the results of experiments in physics, we think that it is an environment where such situations exist.
  • Until now, I hadn’t clearly grasped this point, so in the past user tests, I used videos that aimed to transmit information efficiently. Conventional classroom videos on YouTube are mostly like that, so I think we should prepare new classroom videos based on Kineto.

• Also, related to that, I was asked why we seek synchronization. Even in the previous report meeting, I couldn’t give a clear answer to that question, but we reached a consensus that there are benefits in terms of interaction in dialogue and triggering phenomena observed in user testing.

  • Regarding the first point, to explain with a specific number, without elastic synchronization: you can only see the messages of the 5 people ahead of you, while with elastic synchronization, you can see the messages of the 5 people ahead of you plus the messages of the 3 people nearby. I think this is particularly important for people at the forefront of the timeline, and when there are few or no people ahead, it is especially important to be able to synchronize thoughts with nearby people.
  • Regarding the second point,- The concept of pseudo-synchronization, where A acts on B and then B acts on A again, does not hold true. It can only be achieved through synchronization.

• Next, let’s talk about the presentation.

  • As mentioned earlier, I wrote this summary when explaining the project to the teacher.
    • I mentioned three key points: overlapping communication in class videos, elastic synchronization among students, and the experience of “synchronization”.
  • After writing this, I discussed it with friends and realized that it might be better to present it as “sharing a blackboard” rather than “sharing class videos”.
    • The actions remain the same, but the image of the desired outcome might be easier to convey in that way.
    • From the perspective of students, the sensation of writing something on the blackboard at the same level as the class, rather than writing something above the layer of the class video, might be better. I thought that it would be easier to facilitate communication if the completion of the class is achieved through student input, rather than adding something to an already completed class.
    • For teachers, it would also be easier to understand the sense of completion of the class through student input on the blackboard. This would make it easier for them to understand the compatibility with the open-ended approach mentioned earlier.
  • Therefore, in terms of positioning, it would be more like an extension of Zoom, but with the concept of a timeline added to online whiteboards like Jamboard.
    • Compared to online whiteboards, there is the advantage of being able to avoid spoilers by pseudo-synchronously experiencing the flow from the past, rather than always seeing the latest version.

• Additionally, I think this could be positioned as elastic synchronization, which achieves a hybrid of synchronous and asynchronous.

  • (Ad lib explanation)
  • It would be great if we could discuss this at the final presentation as well.

• Things to do before the final presentation:

  • We will prioritize implementing it so that we can show how it has been used in actual education.
  • I regret that we couldn’t expand earlier and have more cycles of improvement, but I want to make the most of the remaining month.

• We will also adjust the UI to make it more like a whiteboard for presentation purposes.