1912 Eight Grade Quiz Makeover #295: Challenge | Recap
A Historic Exam Gets a Modern Makeover
A few years ago, BuzzFeed posted another one of their viral quizzes. The only difference this...
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For this weeks demo, I challenge you to compete in an old-fashioned 1912 spelling bee. Will you make your graduating class proud?
link to demo: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/2194a8ad-e6d2-4b33-bd89-118e76a23b1f/review
storyline file: https://mywebsiteron.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/8thgrade.story
After collecting assets for the challenge (photo of a 1912 graduating class, a suitable bee or two, and a hit song from 1912), I began to piece together the quiz.
(I have now attributed all of these on the last slide)
Using storyline's built-in functionality I built the slide master and the quiz masters slides. I later remembered to change the fonts in design mode so that all of the slides look uniform.
I used all of the words from the article but had the system do a random draw of 15 each time it is run using storyline's functionality as well.
I learned that I could add animation to the master slides which saved a lot of repetitive work. I used text to speech to build out my individual quiz slides with a simple copy and paste. I kept the vocabulary words on each slide until I had created each of the text to speech words, and sentences.
I had fun building this out but it kept me up until 2 AM. :)
link to demo: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/2194a8ad-e6d2-4b33-bd89-118e76a23b1f/review
storyline file: https://mywebsiteron.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/8thgrade.story
After collecting assets for the challenge (photo of a 1912 graduating class, a suitable bee or two, and a hit song from 1912), I began to piece together the quiz.
(I have now attributed all of these on the last slide)
Using storyline's built-in functionality I built the slide master and the quiz masters slides. I later remembered to change the fonts in design mode so that all of the slides look uniform.
I used all of the words from the article but had the system do a random draw of 15 each time it is run using storyline's functionality as well.
I learned that I could add animation to the master slides which saved a lot of repetitive work. I used text to speech to build out my individual quiz slides with a simple copy and paste. I kept the vocabulary words on each slide until I had created each of the text to speech words, and sentences.
I had fun building this out but it kept me up until 2 AM. :)
- Very cool! I didn't know about Storyline's built in text-to-speech feature until reading your post. Thanks for sharing!
- You're welcome. It can be quite useful if you don't over-use it.
- This is great. Love the options of slowing down and adding context to the word and also choosing and naming a character.
- Thank you. Trying to get the text-to-speech to say the words slower can be a challenge. I added multiple dashes between the syllables but also had fiddle around with each part of the word to get it to sound approximately right.
- As Cheryl has mentioned, the slowing down is cool. I didn't know that you can add pauses in between by adding syllables. Thanks for that.
- That was fun. I named my character Susan B. Anthony. :)
- That is funny. I named my guy Donald once and Joe once. I named my girl Kamala once.
- I enjoyed this. I kept wondering if I would be penalised for using British spelling at one point. I didn't know you could add animations to the quiz master slides. Great job!
- I hadn't thought of being punished for English spelling. I guess you would as the only answers accepted were the ones from the article. This would be easy enough to change if you wanted to.
- Loved this, Ron! My first thought was to do something with spelling, but it wasn't really coming together in my brain. I never even thought of the text-to-speech and I didn't want to do a VO. I named my character Beatrice. Very fun!
Check your file for a cheater in the "audience" on the word "diagram" ;)- Thank you, Jen. It was fun to do. Also, I did see the "cheater" but by the time I was back to editing I couldn't figure out which slide it was on. Thank you for finding it for me, I will fix.
- Really cool! The flying bee was an adorable touch!
- Thanks, Kelly. I put one bee on the question master and a different bee on the final screen. The one on the master follows a hand-drawn motion path and is set to orient based on the direction of the path. The one on the final screen uses two animations: screen entry, then simple motion path (up) and motion path (down) with the pattern repeating forever. When the first path ends the other begins and so on.
- I love the option to pick and name your character! The opening line, "Could you have graduated with the 8th Grade class of 1912?" is a nice way to entice the learner to step up to the challenge.
- Thank you, Kimberly. Each challenge I do, I try to get a little bit better. I appreciate all the feedback.
- This is great - a lot going on here - but thoughtfully put together with an appropriate theme.
- Thanks Jonathan. I am always inspired by the work of the long time experts at this like yourself.
- Ron, nice work on the graphics, animations, and clues.
- Thank you so much for your kind words, Daniel.
