A Scaffolding Framework for Creating Presentation Documents in Research Group
Abstract: The main issue addressed in this paper is how to help novice researchers create presentation documents in a research group to develop their presentation skill. In order to create presentation documents properly, it is necessary to get and accumulate experiences in composing the semantic structure that represents what to present and how to sequence the contents presented. However, it is not easy for the novice researchers because they have fewer experiences in creating presentation documents. This paper describes a scaffolding framework for composing the semantic structure of presentation documents with presentation schema that is typical semantic structure embedded in the presentation documents accumulated in a research group. In this framework, the novice researchers are allowed to compose the presentation structures of various documents with the schema in the authentic research contexts of creating, learning, and listening to the presentation documents.