• A Mission Statement:

– To provide a timely, sustainable, useful and usable digital resource for those engaged in teaching and learning with and about computing.

• Goals– Support the many distinct yet overlapping educational

programs in computing and their associated communities.

– Support contribution, use, reuse, review, and evaluation of educational materials, at multiple levels of granularity

– Support computing education communities around emerging and ad-hoc interests

– Support inquiry-driven, active, and engaging use of the Ensemble portal and digital library through the entire life-span and life-cycle of learning objects.

– Promote the development of, and the interaction with, the NSDL

• Some suggestions (long term)

– Test assumptions about users and audiences• Run focus groups

– Blank slate on problems facing audiences– Statement of problems into specific use cases for each

audience– Utilize use cases to prioritize audiences and goals – Define UI emphases – Modify UI to match audience needs– Obtain UI feedback

• Some suggestions (long term)

– Emphasize user experience and content over technology

– Develop mechanism for ongoing user feedback

– Be careful to not make early design choices that constrain evolution, given the pace of technology

– Organize the team by front end and back end

• Some suggestions (for Nov)

– Simplify the landing page: Pick one likely audience and design an efficient home page to serve them

– Emphasize user experience and content over technology

– Possibly use Dan’s TECH website and approach (use of moderators) as a model for community building

– Be careful to not set expectations about tools and interfaces that might not get through the user analysis

Next steps

• Re-convene with advisory board after focus groups and user analysis is complete (before the end of January)

• Map the demonstrated tools and content to the stated goals

• Bob and Carol are available to help with focus groups