Creating Interactive Learning Activities

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Creating Interactive Learning Activities

• using free or inexpensive tools

(mostly)
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Tools for Creation

• Hot Potatoes (free for SUL)
• StudyMate 1.0 (89 SUL)
• Quandary (50 SUL)
• Quia (49 per year)
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX (90 SUL)
• Macromedia Flash MX (92 SUL)

SUL Single-User License
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Hot Potatoes
A collection of applications which allow you to
create interactive activities. The type of
activities include - Multiple Choice -
Short-answer - Jumbled sentences - Crossword
- Matching/Ordering - Gap-Fill More
information at www.halfbakedsoftware.comExamples
at http//web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/wintutor6/index.h
tm
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StudyMate
An application from the makers of Respondus which
assists in the creation of nine Flash-based
activities without using any Flash programming.
Activities created be imported into Blackboard or
WebCT. More information at http//www.respondus.co
m/products/studymate.shtmlExamples at
http//www.respondus.com/studymate/samples.shtml
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Quandary
Another tool from the makers of Hot Potatoes,
Quandary is for the creation of action mazes. An
Action Maze is described as an interactive
case-study. Users are presented with a situation
and a number of options which lead to more
options. More information at http//www.halfbakeds
oftware.com/quandary.phpExamples at
http//www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary_tutorial
s_examples.php
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Quia
Quia is an online tool which assists instructors
with the creation of online, interactive
activities for student learning and assessments.
More information at http//www.quia.comExamples
at http//www.quia.com/web
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Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX
Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX contain components
that assist in the development of creating
HTML/Javascript based and Flash based activities,
respectively. Dreamweaver MX provides a set of
tools called CourseBuilder. Flash MX comes with a
library of Learning Interactions. More
information at http//www.macromedia.comExample
Dreamweaver MX quizExample Flash MX quiz
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Online Learning Activities

• Online Repositories

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Online Learning Activities -Repositories

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute contains
  animations, virtual labs, and video clips
  demonstrating different topics in Biology
• Quiz Hub most activities are for K-12 some
  college level
• CAREO
• Flash Learning Games at the University of
  Minnesota allows for the ability for a users to
  create his/her own flash based games

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Presenter Information

• Marjani Kane-Morrismkanemorris_at_pgcc.edu
• Please share any of your experiences using any of
  the tools mentioned in this presentation
• Thank you