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Multi-device Use: Task is device specific

Smart Phone

Tablet

Desktop and Laptop

Notification/Alerts

Reading

Long form writing

• At breakfast she logs into HMH 1 to see her planner.

• Checks for new assignments

• Sees where she left off in reading (bookmark)

Barbara wakes up in the morning.

• Barbara reviews for a test she has in chemistry by opening up the HMH Player App on her tablet

• • Barbara clicks on a link to a video within her chemistry ebook buy gets an alert that she is off line—she'll have to wait until she gets to school to access it.

• Barbara takes some notes as she reads

On the bus to school

• Barbara opens up the HMH Player App on her tablet to follow along as her teacher projects onto classroom whiteboard certain pages from his laptop

• Barbara takes some notes.

• Organizing notes/assets in storage

During her first class: Algebra 1

Technical Notes:

Her tablet syncs:

• Notes taken during her bus ride are sync'd up to cloud

• Any assignments, notes or alerts would be refresh to her tablet.

• Barbara navigates to HMH 1:

• Works on ELA assignment, submits attaches assets (i.e. audio recording and two images)

During a free period Barbara goes to the school's Computer lab

Technical Notes:

Work done in lab syncs:

• Any notes, assignments, annotations that she had worked on at the lab syncs to MyStuff (cloud.)

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Technical Notes:

No communication with cloud:

No access to any content that hasn't been downloaded

Can take notes on contents downloaded

Can read content downloaded

Questions:

What do we download at initial download of App? Slimmed downed versions of eBook? What about DLO's

Work off line button?: Woudl download current lessons and assignments also, last read and associated resources.

Spotified Model: "Do you want this to be available offline?" Check mark.

Downloads automatically what ever you are working on in the background?

Technical Notes:

Questions:

Do we need a notification app to push out alerts?

HMH 1

Player

HMH 1

Questions:

Does student have access after assignment has been submitted?

Media Quieries: Will we have formatting for: printing, HTML, or letter? A "publish" format that would allow user to see these various formats and then work in them? What is our story around submitting and publishing. What does the teacher see? There is this concept of "publishing" which connotates the idea that the page woudl be formatted most likely into as standard 8.5 x 11.

• Barbara does some reading on her tablet

• Starts an Social Studies essay on her laptop. She is collaborating on this project with her classmates: Sydney and Rodger. She shares what she has written so far with Rodger.

• Rodger adds to the document.

• Barbara tells Rodger to close out of document because she is going over to Sydney's work off line.

• Barbara downloads assignment before going to Sydney's

Barbara arrives home and starts her home work on her laptop

Technical Notes:

Barbara's devices sync:

• Any notes, assignments, annotations that she had worked on during school time has been up loaded to the cloud and sync'd to her two devices (her laptop at home and tablet.)

• NOTE:

Questions:

If Barbara has downloaded any content to one devise then only designated devices would have that content downloaded? Or would it only be that device?

Would sharing be the same as collaborating? Would we follow the Google drive model where the user could just "share" with a classmate and work simultaneously? Or woudl we have a disignated peer review function as implemented in mWS? Or would we allow for that type of interactivity to be handled by Google docs? Can we injest Google docs as we invision the native writing tool? (with a scrubber? Text format would have to be responsive.)

HMH 1

Player CPA

• Sydney doesn't have wifi so the pair must work off line.

• Barbara uses her cell phone to do some of the research as well as access HMH 1 to reread some of the instructions for the assignment

• Rodger keeps working on line despite Barbara's request (Thus two documents are eventually generated in the cloud. When Barbara returns home she'll have to combine the documents)

Barbara is invited over to a friend's house to do home work together

Technical Notes:

Her tablet syncs:

• Any notes, assignments, annotations that she had worked on at home has been up loaded to the cloud and is available to her

• NOTE: If Barbara has downloaded any content to one devise then only designated devices would have that content downloaded?

HMH 1

Player CPA

Multi-device Use: The Day In The Life Of A Student: Happy Path

HMH 1

Player

http://thejournal.com/Articles/2014/02/03/10-Major-Technology-Trends-in-Education.aspx?Page=1

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/Students-Speak-Up-About-Technology-2013.html

• At breakfast Ms Steward logs into HMH 1 to see her planner.

• Sees that 2 students didn't pass in their assignments due the day before

• She uploads some materials (PDF, some images and a link) that she plans to attach to a science assignment.

Ms Steward wakes up in the morning.

• Ms Steward opens the HMH Player App on her tablet and begins composing her science assignment

On the subway to school

• Classroom Collaboration: Ms Steward broadcasts to her class as she reviews pages from chapter 9

• She verbally assigns reading to the class: asking them to read chapter 10

• She mentions that there are two people that didn't pass in their assignment due the day before and that they need to see her after class. (She later checks and sees that one assignment had been turned in on time. It was date stamped for the day before. Wasn't recorded by system until student arrived at school and hit the wifi network.

During her first class: 7th Grade

Science: 1st period

Technical Notes:

• Ms Steward completes her custom assignment and assigns to it to her 2nd period class.

During a free period

Technical Notes:

Work

Technical Notes:

No communication with cloud:

No access to any content that hasn't been downloaded

Content she uploaded to cloud at breakfast has been sync'd to her tablet

Questions:

Is Ms Steward able to create the assignment off-line? And then assign it? Then it would upload once she hits a wifi connection.

Technical Notes:

Questions:

If Ms Stewart shutdown her laptop before all content has been uploaded, what alerts do we use to indicate that not all content has been uploaded.

What is overall strategy for teacher? Is it to work off line? Is this a priority? If not could we have the teacher work from the

Player

Questions:

Goes

• Ms Steward logs into HMH 1 because she wants to comment on student's eBook. (This isn't allowed in player.)

• Ms Steward logs into HMH 1 so she can access resources not found in Player.

Ms Steward at home

Technical Notes:

Questions:

Is it possible that we could allow the teacher to customize their library? Could teacher's push resources from platform to to player? Maybe even include items pulled from other sites? (Strategy: Keep

HMH 1

Player CPA

Multi-device Use: The Day In The Life Of A Teacher: Happy Path

HMH 1

Player CPA

Player

Questions:

Can we create a flow that allows for verbal assignment? The teacher can later go into the system and set it up? This would allow more flexibility.

Can a date stamp be established for assignments? For students who wish to submit while off-line.

The Story Breaks here. Which entry point does the user enter? What is our strategy? What is our message to the user?

Top ed-tech stories to watch: From 1-to-1 to ‘one to many’

eSchool News, August 20th, 2014

“We asked the students last year to identify for us their preferred device for a variety of academic tasks,” said Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow. “The results pointed to a differentiation of devices that they wanted to use, based upon the inherent capabilities and roles of the devices.”

For creating a presentation, “kids want to use a laptop,” Evans noted. “Communicate or collaborate with peers: smart phone. Take notes in class: tablet. Read a book or article: digital reader.”

Evans concluded. “Kids are multi-mobilists and want to use a variety of appropriate devices for particular tasks.”

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/08/20/one-to-many-635/