How can questions engage learners?
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This post is a small Flash interactive that describes how you can use questions to involve learners in your elearning materials. If your feed strips out embedded Flash, you can play with the interaction on the blog by clicking the title of the post.
16 comments
on August 23rd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Love your graphics and simple, easy to understand examples. Good job.
on August 24th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Enjoyed the movie, Cathy, both the message and the delivery. How did you create it?
on August 24th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Thanks for the comments.
Clive, I used Apple’s Keynote to create the Flash. Keynote is mostly a presentation tool, but it also lets you make anything clickable and exports to Flash, so it’s handy for basic interactives.
on August 24th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Thanks Cath
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on August 31st, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Very fun, simple, concrete scenario..I love the party avacado dip question. I think everyone can relate to that! Wonderful!!! This really makes a strong case against the “information dump” you get so much of in courses. Perfect. Thanks so much.
on September 2nd, 2007 at 3:48 am
Great! I am glad I found this blog. You always seem to have lots of useful ideas to share. This post on “interactivity” was really good. Most times people confuse interactivity with some video-game like stuff in a learning course. You have shown how even a simple interactive sketch can go a long way. Keep up the good work!!
on September 2nd, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Hello Cathy,
We work on Windows now with Articulate Presenter, but I’m very intrigued by Keynote. The Flash activity above is just excellent. I realize that you can add audio to Keynote, but can you also export it with Flash? Could you have added audio to the Flash interaction above?
Thanks!
on September 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Sean, I’m glad you liked the Flash. It was easy to do. I haven’t tried exporting audio, but the Flash exporting process asks if you want to include the soundtrack, so it’s supposed to work. I’m planning to write a post about Keynote once I’ve tried a few more things with it, and I’ll add some audio testing to my experiments.
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on April 26th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Hello Cathy,
I must say you have a great Blog!
I really enjoyed your flash but… what is the exporting process?
I am afraid I can not find this option in my keynote…
Thanks a lot in advance,
on April 27th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Tony, thanks for your question–it alerted me to the fact that Apple has removed the Flash export feature from its new, “improved” version of Keynote.
In Keynote ‘08, you could save to Flash by using the Export option in the File menu (if I remember correctly–I’m away from my Mac at the moment). If you have Keynote ‘09, however, you apparently can’t directly export an interactive Flash version of a slide show. Based on what I’ve read on forums, you can save the show as QuickTime and convert that to Flash, but you lose all the interactivity.
This is a really unfortunate move by Apple. I’m sticking with Keynote ‘08
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