According to the point 5 in Daniel's blog about Follow-up on Storyboard, I realize that what I am going to present in the group assignment should be more focus and related to one teaching point only. It is one of the four components of only a lesson (task, resources, support and evaluation). It is a resource to be used to support teaching and learning in lessons.
From point 3, I fully understand the purpose of an interactive visual representation is not drill and practice, quiz questions, tests or games. In spite of this, the representations should allow users to interact and explore in order to construct knowledge which is a smaller part of the teaching points of a certain lesson or topic. In school, normally worksheets will be distributed to students and students have to finish the tasks in the worksheets through the exploration of the visual representation. Therefore, I think Science and Mathematics are good subjects that teachers can prepare suitable interactive visual representation based on a specific concept. The software involved are not restricted to Flash or Authorware. In the case of mathematics, apart from some mathematics software, such as Sketchpad, Cabri Geometry, C.a.R., Geogebra, Wingeom, Winplot and Winstats, even Excel and powerpoint are possible tools.
With reference to the points 1 & 2 that a single representation should be kept and displayed on one go on the screen, the content of our group assignment needed to be reconsidered in order to cut the number of screens involved.
In this session, I learnt how to make a slider. Below is the flash file on slider that I created. Up till now, I find the skills of making a slider and placing a mouse pointer over a hotspot area are very useful. With these skills, I can easily create some simple interactive learning objects. The flash tutorial prepared by Daniel is very useful. More importantly, I can refer to them anytime after the session and when necessary. I know I need to practise many times before I can actually manipulate Flash.
3 comments:
Hi,
If you add some pictures and words in that slider, I think that it will be better.
Emily
Hi Emily,
Your suggestion is good. I just want to learn this skill and so I keep it simple. On the other hand, I want to spare more time to learn some skills which will be required in my group assignment, such as how to move a point around, measuring an angle. If one is well versed in Flash, one can easily achieve them using (advanced) actionscritps. But for me, I need to try to look for ways to achieve the same effects based on the skills that Daniel has demonstrated.
jaco
Hi, jaco
I totally agree with you views, especially for the point that "interactive visual representation is not drill and practice, quiz questions, tests or games. In spite of this, the representations should allow users to interact and explore in order to construct knowledge which is a smaller part of the teaching points of a certain lesson or topic".
I think you have pointed out the most important objective of this course. I believe, after this course, most of our classmates should have the same views of you.
Thanks for your sharing.
Ryan Yue
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