{"id":90,"date":"2009-12-29T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/?p=90"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:16:46","slug":"annokiblooms-an-annoki-based-tool-for-story-planning-and-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/2009\/12\/annokiblooms-an-annoki-based-tool-for-story-planning-and-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"AnnokiBlooms – An Annoki-Based Tool For Story Planning and Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>In the summer of 2006, I was awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. For my summer research project I worked with Dr. Eleni Stroulia from the Software Services group (formerly the Software Engineering Group). My project required me to visualize a small collection of wiki pages, for example those pages that are from a single project group or a single wiki page that identifies the important sections of a page. During the summer, I also supervised a WISEST<\/a> student Janice Annett<\/a> (who also happens to be my sister!). She helped me with the user interface portions of this project and also assisted with the \u2018Teach Planner\u2019 aspect of the project (which isn\u2019t mentioned below but allows teachers to create their own graphic organizers for AnnokiBlooms).\n

AnnokiBlooms is a wiki-based tool, that combines Annotated Wikis (Wiki libraries such as Wikipedia and MediaWiki) with Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy (a hierarchical framework used in education settings to classify the cognitive domain of learning) to create semantic representations of short stories.\u00a0 AnnokiBlooms aims to strengthen a student\u2019s mastery of concepts and ideas they have gained from reading or writing a short story or narrative.<\/p>\n

Through my work, I created a Java applet that utilized the University of Alberta Software Engineering wiki (Annoki) and XML files to dynamically visualize a single wiki page (we chose the domain of story writing to test this on). The idea in using story writing allowed me to investigate the multiple semantic graphs that a story could have, such as time-lines, topic maps, spider maps, flow charts and hierarchies. The bulk of my work involved creating wiki parsers that would parse a story and create multiple XML XTM files, and then transforming XTM\u2019s into different graphs (such as time-lines, spider maps, flow charts, or hierarchies), complete with different shaped and colored nodes and edges.<\/p>\n

AnnokiBlooms is a very user-friendly tool, that allows students to easily see i) how the story they have created is semantically structured and ii) how the story they have read is structured through the use of different types of graphic organizers (time line, spider map, topic map, hierarchy, flow chart), nodes and edges. Teachers can use this tool to view a students progress and story evolution to determine which areas a student needs additional assistance in.<\/p>\n

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\nThe first version of AnnokiBlooms that I built. The Annoki Wiki and Java program were two separate entities but communicated with each other.<\/p>\n

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\nThe second version of AnnokiBlooms, where I integrated an HTML browser into the Java program so that the graphic organizers and the wiki could be used simultaneously.<\/p>\n

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A screen shot of the \u2018Story Comprehension\u2019 use case of the software. In this example, the wiki page and subsequent visualization would be created by the teacher (with specific elements omitted) and the student would be asked to complete the graphic organizer by answering story-specific questions.<\/p>\n

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