eLearning 2006 Day 4

Julie Collareda

Day four – Developing resources Hot potatoes Digital story telling Photostory 3 Captivate Moviemaker 3 Photoshop Flash Learning object development

Hot potatoes

Hot potatoes6 sections/quizzes:

• Jquiz (multiple choice) • Jmatch (drop and drag)• Jcrossword• Jclose• Jmix• Jmash – creates a web page

Hot potatoesYour turn to play!

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Digital story telling

a broad reference to the emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games)

Examples

Photostory 3

Simple software package to develop digital stories

Demonstration Logon and download Get started with your digital story

Captivate

Tutorials

http://www.vtc.com/products/captivate.htm

Captivate-trial versionhttps://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=captivate&loc=en%5Fxap

Video• Doesn’t need to be Academy award

winner! As long as it is educational sound!

• Digital camera• Premiere Pro elements software• Free downloads

Movie maker 3-Examples

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx

Helpful hints

Production tips Producing video for the Web Gear for producing a video pod

Photography• Digital camera• Make sure you know how to save to the

right file type e.g.. jpg or giff for the web• Photoshop elements good software

program for beginners

FlashAdvantages• grabs attention • displays cause and effect behaviours in an easy

to understand format • can demonstrate hard to explain processes

simply • can show movement or action better than still

images Disadvantages• costly • time consuming to produce

Flash

Examples

Maslow's hierarchy

teacherSmart• Empowers teachers/lecturers (content

experts)• Time and cost effective • Reusable learning objects• Provides professional development:

beginner, intermediate and advanced level• Quality assurances processes

teacherSmart Model

Project management

Preparing•Scoping

•chunking

Development/packaging of resources

Evaluation

Delivery

Learning design

teacherSmart• Allows teachers/lecturers to drive the

development process• Organisations do not need expensive

multimedia teams • Teachers/lecturers do not need to have

a knowledge complicated software packages

teacherSmart• 2 templates developed in Microsoft

Word • Templates based on a pedagogical

model that is aimed at stimulating and engaging self directed learning

• For more information on teacherSmart go to www.teachersmart.edu.au

teacherSmart• Time and cost effective • Creates reusable learning objects that

can be delivered in any mode• Provides professional development:

beginner, intermediate and advanced level-sustainable process

• Quality assurance processes

Overview of the process

Step 1 Preparing

Step 2 Developing/packaging resources

Step 3 Producing resource

Step 4 Delivering

What is a LO?

A resource in digital form that can be:• Recoverable• Interoperable• Context-able• Editable• Re-usable

Learning object

• Topic (small chunk of content)• Reusable• Transferable• Digital storage• International standards

Learning object• Underpinning knowledge• Engaging activities

• Teaching and learning• Group activities• Self assessment

• Multiple contexts i.e. online, CD/DVD, learning management system

Teaching and learning

Teaching and learning

Self assessment

Self assessment

Self assessment

Models of developmentDepends on skills, knowledge and funding• Simple development• More complex-added as skill level

increases. Extra funding available• Complex multimedia development

Simple development

More complex

Moderate

Complex

Why do you need teacherSmart?• Allows the capture of knowledge and skill • Capture corporate knowledge• Sustainable for organisations• Provides project based ‘meaningful’

professional development

Preparation

Step 1 Preparing Scoping of the project and

development of the project brief Chunking of content into learning

objects (LO) i.e. topics Planning student activities

Development

Step 2 Developing/packaging resources

Develop: resource template reading notes or locate a suitable

site/text for underpinning knowledge Activities

Develop activities

Many ways to engage students Propriety software Open source and freeware Concentrate on the pedagogy not the

technology Encourage self directed learning

Production Step 3 Producing your learning object/s

Converting to html Edit the document and activities Link the activities and D links Clean up the folder structure Save the word document Save as a v2 file (version 2) ready for conversion. Save the file as a html file

ProductionConverting the learning object

Open smartConvert Add style Clean the html file

Production

Adding navigation

Add internal navigation to the learning object

Delivery

Step 4 – Delivering Web Learning management system CD/DVD/Flash drive

Learning Management System

Day four – Summary Hot potatoes Digital story telling Photostory 3 Captivate Moviemaker 3 Photoshop Flash Learning object development