In this section I put together some tutorial documentations I created at work or manuscripts I composed in class projects. I hope to include more conference presentations, journal publications, and grant proposals here as soon as I can. I will also update my portfolios on academia.edu (publications) and github.com (codes).
Academia.edu is an online platform for scholars to upload and share their publications and bookmark/download interesting papers in their fields. Users can also follow specific scholars for their most recent updates. Goal: Publish more papers on interesting topics. Tools: MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, Academia.edu. Collaborator(s): Chien-Ming Huang, Erica Halverson.
This tutorial was part of the D3/JavaScript tutorial project. This document introduced the basic concepts of jQuery, and how jQuery was related to D3. Goal: Understand jQuery as a programming tool. Tools: MS Word. Collaborator(s): Andrew Schwartz.
This was a brief tutorial I made for the D3/JavaScript tutorials project. This document introduced basic concepts and the syntax of JavaScript DOM, and addressed how DOM was related to D3. Goal: Understand Document Object Model (DOM). Tools: MS Word. Collaborator(s): none.
This was a one-page tutorial I made for Fluno Center faculty and staff. This tutorial demonstrated how to use the "Mail Merge" function in MS Word to create a mailing list, and to print out all recipients' names and addresses on pre-sized thank you card envelopes. Goal: Have a step-by-step tutorial for readers to get familiarized with necessary skills for this specific task. Tools: Word. Collaborator(s): Steve Van Der Weide.
This was a another short tutorial I made for the Fluno Center. Goal: Create a short tutorial for users to quickly understand how to access the file server and benefit from the service. Tools: MS Word. Collaborator(s): Brian Martin.
This final paper was an assignment for EdPsy 796: Intro to Learning Sciences II with Professor Mitchell Nathan. The paper analyzed frequently visited online resources for English education, and used synthesized theoretical frameworks with semi-structured interviews to explore the "self-explanation" versions of helpful websites for English learners. Goal: Explore Cognitive Ethnography as an analytical method. Tool(s): MS Word. Consultant(s): Prof. Mitchell Nathan.
This paper was an assignment for EdPsy 795: Intro to Learning Sciences I. This paper analyzed online window-shopping activities in a small group. The study took Edwin Hutchins' "cognition as computation" framework to explore our everyday cognition. Goal: Learn to apply cognitive ethnography in pilot studies. Tool(s): MS Word. Consultant(s): Prof. Mitchell Nathan.