Digital Syllabus!

by | Jan 3, 2019 | Design, Teaching

Digital Syllabus!

I’ve been tinkering with this idea for a bit, but I finally figured out the tools to accomplish exactly what I wanted! For this semester, I have created a digital syllabus for my online graduate course. My hope is that a website-structure will allow for easier navigation of finding important information. Although students are familiar with the traditional syllabus format, these documents can be very long, and even if headers are used for accessibility and navigation needs, it can still require lots of scrolling or searching to find specific information. 

I am going to survey my students to find out their opinion of the digital syllabus. 

Spelling Game – 9/29

by | Oct 2, 2017 | Coding, Design

Spelling Game – 9/29

First grade week 4 spelling test.

Sounds are giving me trouble. Although mobile Chrome and Safari are supposed to allow user interactions (like pushing a button) to play a sound, I have only successfully gotten sound to work on Firefox on our phones.

View the full word bank

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Images were downloaded from either the Noun Project or Open Clipart. The following images were downloaded from the Noun Project:

sleep by Vaibhav Radhakrishnan

Dog by Visual Glow

Cat by Visual Glow

win by Valeriy

winners by Valeriy

Tennis by parkjisun

Volleyball by parkjisun

jigsaw puzzle by Magicon

mom and daughter by Kevin Guenther

finger pointing by BomSymbols

Weekly Spelling Tests

Week 4

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1

Spelling Game – 9/22

by | Sep 23, 2017 | Coding, Design

Spelling Game – 9/22

First grade week 3 spelling test.

View the full word bank

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Images were downloaded from either the Noun Project or Open Clipart. The following images were downloaded from the Noun Project:

catch by Bart Laubsch

Fire by Aleksandr Vector

Frog by Saeful Muslim

helping hand by Gan Khoon Lay

Lock by Aleksandr Vector

ox by Creative Stall

pot by Made by Made

soda by b farias

write by Valeriy

Weekly Spelling Tests

Week 4

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1

Spelling Game – 9/15

by | Sep 16, 2017 | Coding, Design

Spelling Game – 9/15

First grade week 2 spelling test.

The sounds do not work on Chrome for Android.

View full word list.

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Weekly Spelling Tests

Week 4

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1

The Neuron – Interactive Animation

by | Sep 7, 2017 | Coding, Design, Teaching

The Neuron – Interactive Animation

I have continued working with JavaScript and have created an interactive animation to teach students about the basic components of the neuron. The majority of the file was created in Adobe Animate CC with JS coding to create the interactivity. I then exported that content as an .OAM file and imported it into an Adobe Captivate 9 file. Captivate will interact with MSU’s learning management system, Desire 2 Learn, and will allow me to collect participation data, so I know that the students have completed the module.

The quiz at the end randomizes the questions. All of the questions except for the last multiple choice question, were created with the animation. It’s the final MC question that will collect student data.

ETA: When I created the animation, I was using a demo version of Adobe Captivate to see if I was interested in purchasing the software. I decided to stick with the Creative Cloud suite, and once my trial version expired, my file no longer worked. Below is the Animate CC file without the ability to collect student data, so right now, the quiz ends rather abruptly. I will need to add in some sort of score slide.