Re-search project: prototype
2011
Description
First year, semester I; Re-search project, a tool to filter the credibility of content on the Web for K12 middle school students.
Fields
Interaction Design
- Fall 2010Team: Nastia Tumash, Nadya RodionenkoInstructor: Meredith DavisRe-search project is designed: to visualize Web search outcomes on the grid, to learn how to choose credible Web resources, to structure and organize Web search process.

- Home page represents a list of all students and their current ranking, a teacher's assignment, graphics that show the most evaluated Web resources in 6 categories: books, encyclopedia, blogs, video/audio, images/maps and other.

- After logging in, the student goes to his profile where there is a search grid, tools to navigate and a teacher’s question. Interactive instructions are available at any time. The student creates a new search, types in the name and applies a particular color, then goes to the browser and executes Web search saving relevant Web resources.





- When saving, the resources have to be put into one of the 6 categories. Credibility of Web recourses has to be evaluated from 1 to 10. All Web search steps are recorded on the grid and represented as small dots. The student saves Web resources he finds credible manually, these resources are represented as big dots.




- Three views of a search grid are available in a student's profile: isometric (view of the whole picture), plan (shows time sequence), elevation (shows the distribution of credibility applied to Web resourses).


- The system also allows the student to edit the grid after having executed Web search and compare it with other members of the system.
