The real stars of the SHORE page are the experiments themselves. These were designed and conducted by members of the class. Each team took an initial template and modified it to suit their needs. The template served as a model for those students who were not familiar with HTML and web page construction. For the students who were already expert web developers, they were allowed (and encouraged) to customize their experiments pages.
All of this would not have been possible without the support of the OTAL sever, the help of Ellen Borkowski (ey9@umail.umd.edu), and of course the encouragement and support of Dr. Ben Shneiderman.
Throughout the semester, students became very aware of fellow students projects. There were many class discussions about certain aspects of one project or another. These discussions served to refine the experiment being discussed and even those not being discussed. After every milestone in the workplan students were asked about what they had done to acheive that milestone. These discussions served to illustrate the importance of the various phases of the experimental method being used.
At the end of the semester, students were able to sign up to review a project of interest. These revisions occurred after the "final" reports were submitted. If a group had three people in it; then they had three reviewers. Review comments were submitted via e-mail to an entire group and the professor. A group was then able to go back and revise their report. Reviewers were encouraged to give both positive and negative feedback. Reviewers found a wide variety of problems from poor grammar to broken links. These revised reports are provided on the SHORE site.