SA POLICE TRAINING ACADEMY WORKSHOP
Friday, September 3rd, 2004
Tools for Flexible Delivery
Many teaching and training situations require the provision of information by the teacher (teaching), and the processing and application of that information by the learner (assessment). While this simple dichotomy can be useful in conceptualising teaching and learning, it should be noted that most teaching/learning situations are a complex dialogue between students and teachers, and between learners and other learners.
SENDING THE INFORMATION OUT
DELIVERY
website (static)
This is the kind of site that simply contains information and assignments. Using this kind of site is designed to be a passive experience.
website (interactive)
This kind of site will actually ask the student to do something on the page (e.g complete and submit exercises, contact someone, post to a forum, etc)
email (written or voice) standard email client; Eudora has voice mail plug-in; see also Wimba voice mail
realtime meetings (text or voice chat) LMS chat tools; most Instant Messengers (eg Yahoo, MSN; Skype) now have voice chat capability
multimedia (CD, animation, narrated slide shows, streaming audio/video) Flash animation: see http://www.cs.sbcc.cc.ca.us/~physics/flash/ for examples; for narrated powerpoint see Impatica; audio can be streamed in many formats - see http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/ccc/pres.htm for examples using Real Player, Windows Media Player
webquests* A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. See http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html for webquest homepage, and http://www.users.on.net/~katef/detention/default.htm for a great local example.
Virtual Classrooms Elluminate, Talking Communities (Elluminate screen shot HERE)
Learning Management Systems (LMS) WebCT, Janison, Moodle, or for a free basic version see Nicenet; LMSs can contain many of the above mentioned tools, or easily house links to educational tools on external sites.
print based packages can complement electronic resources
GETTING THE INFORMATION BACK
ASSESSMENT
quizzes frequently created and assessed and recorded in LMSs; free tools like Hot Potatoes can also be used to create quizzes, crosswords.
discussion or forum (written or voice) usually inside LMS; Wimba voice boards are a oral alternative (see HERE for voice board pic)
email (written or voice) standard email client; Eudora has voice mail plug-in; see also Wimba voice mail
quandary Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. See http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_1/examples/firstaid.htm for an example.
blogs "A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically. . . from links and commentary. . ., to news. . . diaries, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, even fiction.” Blogger; many blogging sites are free.
oral presentations see http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/fll/events_debrief.htm#kuwait; (using Talking Communities virtual classroom) http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~clayton/lpalmer/palmer.html (using Paltalk)
webquests* A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. See http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html for webquest homepage, and http://www.users.on.net/~katef/detention/default.htm for a great local example.
project based learning see http://learn2burn.tripod.com/learn2burn/id2.html (go HERE for pic)
roleplay/scenario can be done via email games (http://www.thiagi.com/email.html), discussion forums, or purpose designed software (eg Fablusi)
webcam, video
Camtasia, Movie Maker (standard in Windows XP) - both tools allow recording of movies via webcam, which can then be sent via email.
surveys email games (http://www.thiagi.com/email.html), Zoomerang
Learning Management Systems (LMS) WebCT, Janison, Moodle, or for a free basic version see Nicenet; LMSs can contain many of the above mentioned tools, or easily house links to educational tools on other sites.
written assignments may still be the only option for some

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