SEEVIC College Runnymede Chase Benfleet Essex SS7 1TW National e-Learning Support Network

SEEVIC CollegeRunnymede ChaseBenfleetEssexSS7 1TW

National e-Learning Support Network


Project Description

“To develop a differentiated training package for staff to use which will enable them to produce high quality interactive learning resources. The training package will be developed by a group of 3 teaching

staff from different curriculum areas and will then be used to train a bigger staff group”.

-Claire Jones (E-Learning Development Officer )


Project Aims & Objectives

The aim of this package is to increase the use of ILT in Teaching and Learning by improving staff knowledge in using PowerPoint to produce interactive learning and assessment resources.

It is hoped that a number of key objectives could be facilitated in the design of this package including:

• To help increase staff IT skills in producing interactive learning resources and broaden the participation of students by using the interactive learning resources.


Project Aims & Objectives

The aim of this package is to increase the use of ILT in Teaching and Learning by improving staff knowledge in using PowerPoint to produce interactive learning and assessment resources.

It is hoped that a number of key objectives could be facilitated in the design of this package including:

• To help enable students to be able to access materials from outside the College, the learning resources can be placed on the College VLE enabling students and staff to revisit the resources at their leisure.


Step 1: The Mechanics of Interactivity

In developing interactive learning resources it is envisioned that the package you design can will incorporate some of the following features:

• The opportunity for students to navigate more than one path of your package.

• In built assessment opportunities available at a number of points.

• Links to other learning resources, i.e.- databases, web-sites or in-built glossaries.


Step 1: The Mechanics of Interactivity

Before you begin to design your package, here is a simple tutorial on the use of some

of the features of PowerPoint which will form the basis the operational structure of

your resource.

WHEN YOU NAVIGATE BACK TO HERE CLICK THIS

START HERE


Click on:

• Slide Show

• Action Buttons

• And select the appropriate style of button


Now click where you want to place the button

• The button will appear together with this command box.

• You can now select the destination from the list as appropriate.


Destinations can include:

• Named slides.

• Web sites.

• Other files such as Word documents.

• Other PowerPoint presentations.


Points to remember

• Disable the mouse click advance by clicking on Slide Show / Slide Transition and unchecking the Advance on Mouse Click box.


Use ‘Hide Slides’• Some slides may not form

part of the show. Typically additional information slides.

• Use the Hide Slide button in the multi-slide view.

Click on the information

button now!


More Information

You can treat an image or text in the same way as you would an action button.

Simply right click the image (or highlighted text) and select Action Settings.


Planning your resource…

A visual idea of the ‘look’/theme your resource could take may help offer a context or diversity to your package. This may be achieved through designing the slide contents ready to translate in to images either generated by yourself or taken from image libraries.

design for slide


Planning your resource…

As previously mentioned, any image can become a hyperlink to another slide- scans, jpegs etc, can all be re-sized and applied to the context of your resource-

- ready to act as a icon to click on.

realisation of slide


Creating Different PathsIt may be useful to sketch out the various paths of your resource so that you can keep track of which paths the learners will navigate to and from, this could include links out to relevant ‘hidden’ slides like glossary slides.At times a paper flowchart sketch could prove more beneficial than the ‘Slide Sorter View’ found in PowerPoint which runs as per the number order created.

Sketch of flowchart


Outlining Learning AimsAs the package is designed to run as an independent learning resource which students can access autonomously, it may be useful to design the first slide as a preface to the learning outcomes and explain what is hope to become achieved through using the package.


Defining a User Interface

It may be useful to use one of your opening slides to explain what all of the action buttons used in the package are and where they navigate to.


Defining a User Interface

This will aid the learner in progressing through the resource at a differentiated level, hopefully equipping them with choice of whether to skip familiar territory or advance to other features like assessment (when they are ready).


Creating Glossaries

Any glossary links to slides (possibly hidden) could be signalled by the installation of an icon like the one circled. The learners could click on this icon to take them to the relevant glossary page.


Creating Glossaries

Remember to link the glossary page back to the relevant stage of your navigation path. (This is where your flowchart could help you).


Linking Out to Assessment

At any point you can offer the option of a link to some form of assessment. This could be a quiz on the VLE, a multiple answers programme like Hot Potatoes, or a stand alone Word document with an essay question the learners could complete and printout ready for submission or attach in an email.



Simply add in an assessment icon (circled) and link the hyperlink to the relevant page or document on your computer. Remember all your assessment documents need to be in a place the learner could access them too, so if you post your resource on the VLE, make sure you post the assessment document.



Example

REMEMBER TO INCLUDE A LINK BACK TO THE PACKAGE. JUST USE THE HYPERLINK FACILITY IN WORD, IT WORKS THE SAME.


Linking Out to the Internet

At the end of your package you may wish to link out to internet sites for further reading. This can be accomplished the same as any hyperlink you have already created- you simply substitute the full web address (including http:// prefix) instead of the document name/location.


Linking Out to the Internet

From here learners can continue directed study…


National e-Learning Support Network

Many thanks for taking the time to view this training package. We hope it will come of use in

the design of resource-based interactive learning.

Author: Sam Rouse 2006

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SEEVIC College Runnymede Chase Benfleet Essex SS7 1TW National e-Learning Support Network