RAW Composited Notes Google Doc

Introduction to site

MIT Hive Mission

Create a digital platform for meaningful engagement between MIT community and global learners in areas of strategic impact.

HIVE/Lemelson Mission

Support scalability of JV Inventeam adoption through community of teachers sharing their experiences.

There is expressed interest in adding other MIT K-12 organizations to the HIVE site in the future

• Think about ways to expand with k-12 groups, to separate any silos and work together

2 JV Inventeam Project Modes: *not mutually exclusive*

1. Archive Project Model (APM): 1 teacher, 1 project, produced post-finish

1. Goal: create an archive of member-produced artifacts

2. Features: tips, tricks, learnings, challenges, updates

2. Live Support Project Model (LSPM): kit-based with lots of teacher members

1. Goal: offer teachers a live space with an open group chat

Key words:

• Affinity groups

• Archive Project Model (APM)

• diaries

• Live Support Project Model (LSPM)

• Updates

• Podcast

• Uploads

Tour

Aesthetics, branding, tweaks

Immediate changes:

• Home: Member feature - shift “countries” to “states”

• Home: Shift “Find your next project” to Lemelson slogan/different CTA

Branding:

• Change logo (currently text) to Lemelson’s logo

• Navbar/header color easy to change to Lemelson-branded color

• Button color needs to fulfill usability requirements; can be changed to vibrant color (blue/orange)

Home

Gives clear sense of mission, inviting people to create post.

About

Page to remain static & link back to Lemelson site - dynamic content to be integrated with Learn

Connect

Like people sorting - ‘near you’ is helpful

Member info fields: *note to HIVE team: Member objects to vary across HIVE sites*

• Grade level

• Classroom teaching vs administration

• “Middle school teachers like to interact with middle school teachers; administrators like to interact with administrators; no desire for cross interaction of Affinity Groups”

• Takeaway: Identify Affinity Group factors when creating Lemelson Member Object

Learn

Topics: two high-level types of filters: Activites & Topics

• Activities -

• Kit-based

• Topics within kits -> overlap & discovery when sorting

• Topics - ‘soft’, cross-cutting concepts

• Ex: learning empathy, teamwork, sourcing good problems, brainstorming

• Object Types - to remain mostly consistent with Media items (videos, podcasts, courses, posts)

• Wiggle room exists for posts - option to upload worksheets/documents

• Option to rename ‘post’ to ‘resource’

Option to produce Podcasts:

• Interest highly expressed; strength of individuals telling own stories, capture student/teacher energy in the moment

• Option to produce webinars as APM ‘diaries’ (Link: Learn <-> Project)

Projects/Groups (renamed Act page)

Topics:

• Class type (Affinity Group)

• Size of class

• Project takes place during/outside of class

• Grade level (Affinity Group)

• Time commitment

• Frequency of meetings

• Length of meetings

• Duration of project

Title:

• Note: we may want to leave this open to see how teachers instinctively title their projects

• Double-layered:

• Name of school

• Name of kit/topic

Field (open-text field) items:

• Challenges

• Key skills/interests needed

• Tips & tricks

Updates will be very helpful

• Teachers can succinctly update parents on project status

• Single paragraph entries

• Must be low-energy for JV Inventeam teachers

• Spell out input: offer simple question/answer format

Update presentation design needs to be rethought so that viewers understand that there are multiple updates

Document uploads will be helpful (Learn -> Post upload; APM)

• Allow teachers to create archive not just for other teachers, but for themselves in future years

Featured within LSPMs  “Mock-interview/diaries” would be helpful (Podcast)

• Mad-lib style; 1 teacher, 1 project (APM)

• 3-4 ‘diary-types:’

• Outsider, not supported by Lemelson

• In-school, lots of support

• Inexperienced

• Experienced

• These will be most effective as a finished tool, but will be produced throughout life of project

*HIVE team to devise a solution to cross-link LSPM/APM content effectively from Learn and Project item pages

Outcome: LSPMs to be the Project Object, which would feature APMs as ‘diaries’ -> to be ‘Learn’ objects (podcasts, video diaries, posts, document/worksheet uploads)

Mobile Advancements will make teacher updates and diaries/APMs easier to maintain

Lemelson note about LSPM: Don Domes would be a great person to manage this space, respond to group messaging, create posts/videos/content items daily

Next Steps

Get Diaries into production

• JV Inventeam teachers won’t be available until January, but experienced teachers may be incentivized to start early

Next meeting: Define the PILOT

• Who is audience?

• Active Members?

• Lurkers?

• Content direction/population plan

Timeline:

• PILOT:

• Sept/Oct: Establish look and feel - branding, establish content categories

• Oct/Nov: Populate site with content, assign roles to Master Teachers

• Dec/March (BETA): Populate site with teachers and assign/invite to Group/Project spaces

• BETA:

• Mid-January: 40 teams and JV Teacher Grantees will be integrated with site

• Lemelson will work use site for dialogue

• Teachers will offer site feedback

• FULL RELEASE

• Summer 2018: All JV Inventeam teachers will use site