Adding Interactivity
to StudyNet
Dr. Ian Glover
LTDU
Topics
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Key Interactive Tools
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Quizzes
Polls
Discussions
Wikis
Levels
Video, Audio, Images
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Getting Image Resources
Getting A\V Resources
Quizzes
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Formative assessment
Can be used to support personalised learning
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Through levels
Retains a record of student performance
Polls
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Allow student to provide feedback
Indicative only, because:
No restriction on multi-posting
Discussions
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Module Level, or
Resource Level
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Allows interaction between students
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Students benefit from extra viewpoints
Encourages variation in interaction in large
cohorts
Wikis
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Collaborative document creation
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Students interact with the materials by
making amendments and additions.
Staff have two main choices in usage:
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Create a skeletal structure
Place information that is incorrect and get
students to amend.
Levels (1)
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Key to ‘Personalised Learning’
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Hide and reveal material based on progress
Can be set in two ways:
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Quizzes
Resource access
Levels (2)
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Can be used instead of ‘timed release’ for
supplementary materials.
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Students feel more progression and a greater
sense of achievement.
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Reporting facilities available.
Videos, Audio, Images
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Not interactive, but can greatly aid learning
by:
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Breaking up text
Providing useful/alternative illustration of concepts
Making materials more engaging
Be aware of Copyright issues!
Getting Image Resources
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Create them yourself….
Or,
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Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org)
Wikimedia Commons
(http://commons.wikimedia.org)
Flickr Commons
(http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons)
Getting A\V Resources
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Video
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Revver (http://www.revver.com)
TeacherTube (http://www.teachertube.com)
SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net)
Audio
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Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/en/creativecommons/)
ccMixter (http://ccmixter.org/)
Free Sound Project (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php)
Hands on / Q&A
Thank You