drew.burrett

No, its not a lower league football result. My new Capitvate2 quiz is to be found here -

Electricity Quiz 2

All new quizzes will be linked to in ‘My Work’ over there –>

After the last posting, I was grateful to receive very useful advice from more seasoned hands as to where to begin making something interactive.

Thanks to Andrew I dipped a toe into making something using Captivate 2 and have produced a wee quiz for a physics unit I’ve been doing. It is a bit rough and ready, but it only took a couple of hours to figure enough to put the quiz together. That’s exactly what I wanted to be able to do. Quick, easy, no fiddly bits.

My first effort can be found here.

Please feel free to criticise, its the only way I’ll learn.

I am really itching to put together some properly interactive stuff together, even if it’s just wee revision quizzes, but know very little about how to even get started.

I’ve spoken to Maggie about looking into getting ‘Breeze’, she also gave me an exceedingly large folder to help me learn ‘Flash’, and I’ve been dead impressed with Graham’s ‘Articulte’ quizzes for Biology. These all seem to be viable possibilities for producing something a bit more interesting than the ‘death by a thousand clicks’ of powerpoint.

What’s putting me off jumping in and getting on with it is the prospect of finding that the software won’t or can’t do what I want it to. Part of me feels it’d be a waste of time devoting the effort to learning how to make it not do what I want it to. The other part recognises that anything I learn will be inherently valuable regardless of its utility.

Any advice?

Just getting back to reality after last week’s conference at Inveraray.

I was so impressed to see the work being done by my colleagues in primary (video editing, enterprise and hospitality); pre-school (interactive whiteboarding, digital photography and robotics); and modern languages (digital audio, podcasting and blogging) that I felt a bit of a one-trick pony with my rather dull powerpoints.

I reinforced this self-doubt by delivering a fairly poor demo of my e-beam, which had new software that I hadn’t had the chance to become familiar with. Luckily the hardware rather speaks for itself, and some of my coleagues seemed quite impressed.

( I will be better prepared for my training day the week after next)