Advance Organizer 9

(A&T Chaps. 7 & 8)

The following activities relate to the third Authorware project. You may want to work on these in part or in whole, by yourself on your own section or with your partner on the entire project.

1. Create a checklist that incorporates the elements in Chapters 7 and 8, which you can use in the planning process of your Authorware project.

2. Write general goals or objectives for your Authorware project.

3. Determine who the audience will be for your project. Write down the characteristics of the targeted audience using a chart based on the one shown on page 254. Add or delete categories as needed. Add a terminal goal to the chart.

4. Based on your target audience and student characteristics, write down why your audience needs the instruction you will create in the Authorware project. Include why computer-based instruction will fulfill the need.

5. List the resource materials you will need for your Authorware project.

6. List (brainstorm) the ideas you intend to present in your Authorware project. Write down what content you need to learn before you can complete project.

7. Look at the list you created in task #6 above. Consider how long the lesson should be (maybe think in terms of how many pages of information). Cross off as many ideas as you can to reduce the content to a realistic level. You may be left with only one or two ideas. Also consider how important the ideas are and what you can present and assess using the computer and Authorware.

8. Consider the concepts you have left on your list from task #7 above. Based on the diagrams shown on pp. 280-282 or using a method of your own design, draw a diagram that shows how the concepts relate to each other (for this, you might try using MacFlow in the Education ITC folder to create a chart). Cross off irrelevant features, if any. List some instances and noninstances of the main concepts.

9. Based on what you have created so far, write down what you want your students do be able to do once they have completed your Authorware instruction. (For example, you might want them to be able to locate your planet's orbit when shown the orbits of all the planets in the solar system. You may also want them to be able to recall how large it is compared to the Earth.)

10. Based on what you've created in tasks #8 and #9, write down what prerequisite knowledge and skills students should have to be able to learn the concepts and reach the learning objectives. Draw a diagram of the order the concepts need to be presented. Include in this diagram the prerequisite knowledge and skills that are needed for each (you might base your diagram on the one on page 291).

11. Based on the objectives you've listed in task #9, write down the best way to teach students to achieve the objectives.

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