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Converting Classroom Activities to Interactive E-Learning #465

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6 months ago

Converting Classroom Activities to E-Learning #465: Challenge | Recap

Some of the most common questions we get about building e-learning come from teachers moving from traditional classrooms to online teaching. 

Sure, they have the education and teaching background and find today's authoring tools easy enough to learn. However, their bigger challenge is visualizing how they'll recreate the classroom experience in a meaningful online format.

Here are some of the most frequent questions we hear:

  • How can I adapt my classroom teaching strategies to e-learning?
  • How do I overcome the lack of face-to-face interaction?
  • How can I maintain student engagement and accountability?
  • How do I repurpose classroom materials for an online format?
  • How can I effectively assess student performance online?

Whether or not you have a background in classroom teaching, you're looking for ways to build better online training. And that's what this week's challenge is all about.

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, you have three options for your challenge demo:

  1. Rework an everyday classroom activity into an e-learning interaction. When you submit your example, include a description or link to the original classroom activity.
  2. Convert any static content (classroom, e-learning, job aid, etc.) into an e-learning interaction. See challenge #424 for more ideas.
  3. Share a tip or technique to help teachers move from traditional classrooms to e-learning. This option can be either static or interactive. See e-learning challenge recap #383 for more ideas.

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
  • Forums: Start a new thread and share a link to your published example.
  • Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts so your great work gets even more exposure.
  • Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you go back to school, check out the labeled graphic interactions your fellow community members shared over the past two weeks:

Labeled Graphics in E-Learning RECAP #464: Challenge | Recap

👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article

📆 Upcoming Challenges

  • Challenge #466 (06.21): Accessibility Makeovers. See challenge #417 for a general idea of what we’re doing.
  • Challenge #467 (06.28): Using 360° images. See challenge #337 for examples.
  • Challenge #468 (07.05): Drag-and-drop interactions. This will be a general drag-drop challenge, so you can share anything you like. 
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  • Hi everyone,

    We’re excited to share our submission for this week’s Articulate challenge. We created an interactive sample on tying a Kelvin knot using Articulate Storyline. The sample uses sliders to guide learners through each step, making the learning process engaging and effective.

    Sample Features:
    - Interactive sliders for step-by-step guidance
    - Clear visual instructions
    - Review and practice opportunities

    Try It Out: https://www.swiftelearningservices.com/articulate-challenge-465/

    Thank you
  • Ron_Katz's avatar
    Ron_Katz
    Community Member
    Here is a 5th grade worksheet on word building riddles which I converted. After two practice problems, the student is prompted to create their own riddles that they can print out for their friends to try.

    Demo: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/3052124a-6928-4782-8254-3ea1a7aa3fa2/review

    Download: Available in the feedback/comments section of Review360.

    Original Document: Available in the feedback/comments section of Review360.

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7208840609078411264?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
    • JodiSansone's avatar
      JodiSansone
      Community Member
      I found this more challenging than I expected. I like the way the exercise unfolded with the examples and then the "build your own".
      • Ron_Katz's avatar
        Ron_Katz
        Community Member
        Thanks Jodi. I think 5th graders would enjoy the opportunity to print out these riddles and test their friends. The teacher could update the word list and reissue the assignment. Thinking about each letter of a word and trying to connect it to other words can be helpful in memorizing correct spelling.
  • Hello!

    One of the biggest challenges when converting classroom activities to interactive e-learning is that you're no longer in the room with your learners to answer questions, elaborate, and provide corrections. So here are some tips to make sure they don't goof around about behind your back!

    Hopefully, the teacher won't catch you PASSING NOTES.
    https://bit.ly/elhc465
    • JodiSansone's avatar
      JodiSansone
      Community Member
      Ah, paper airplanes! I remember some of the kids in my school were experts at making paper airplanes. They could make them look like the Millennium Falcon or the Enterprise.
    • JodiSansone's avatar
      JodiSansone
      Community Member
      That was fun, Norma. What a good use of drag n drop! I just came across a Bob Ross ipsum generator recently. I might use it next time. It puts you in a good mood. " A big strong tree needs big strong roots. Each highlight must have it's own private shadow. Pretend you're water. Just floating without any effort. Having a good day. A fan brush can be your best friend." :)
  • JodiSansone's avatar
    JodiSansone
    Community Member
    "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"
    Demo: https://jodisdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/465+Tomorrow/story.html

    I have memories of studying Shakespeare in high school. Our teachers had us read the passages out loud, which was painful (to read or to follow along). I wish we had access to today's technology so the plays could have come to life. I tried to do that in this demo with one of Macbeth's soliloquies.
    • Ange's avatar
      Ange
      Community Member
      Great! Great hints/tips. Reminds me of the great teachers I had - encouragement, discovery and support - they had us act out the parts using the rhythm of the lines to make sense of/unravel/reveal the meaning of the words - we had great fun doing it while learning a lot at the same time! On a side note, I have seen Alan Cumming on stage, his performances are mesmerizing.
    • EvaLudowig's avatar
      EvaLudowig
      Community Member
      Dear Jodi,
      I feel back in high school indeed - and also don´t have the best Macbeth memories. Such a nice e-learning-element would certainly have helped :-)
    • Jonathan_Hill's avatar
      Jonathan_Hill
      Super Hero
      This is great. Gives as much, or as little, support as the learner might need.
  • EvaLudowig's avatar
    EvaLudowig
    Community Member
    Dear all,

    I would like to share a tip.

    In the classroom, you can easily implement group interactions, brainstorming, a round, where everyone introduces him or herself.
    This is a little bit more difficult in an e-learning course - but why not use google docs or other types of shared documents and embed them into Rise or Articulate.

    Under this link you find my example: (if you like, you can participate as well)
    https://knowledge2brain.com/Portfolio/EmbeddedGoogleDoc_EN/scormcontent/index.html
    • JeniJohnson-41f's avatar
      JeniJohnson-41f
      Community Member
      Love this idea. How did you get the page to load as full width (versus the SL play button)?
      • EvaLudowig's avatar
        EvaLudowig
        Community Member
        Hi Jeni,
        thanks a lot for your nice feedback.

        The google document is directly embedded into the Rise course (there is an own block type for this: Multimedia > Embed). This way it loads directly luckily.
    • RaeFowler's avatar
      RaeFowler
      Community Member
      This is a great idea, Eva! The document could even be embedded into LMS's like Blackboard and Canvas.
      • EvaLudowig's avatar
        EvaLudowig
        Community Member
        Thank you Raeven,

        yes, good idea. Embedding the document somewhere in a safe place should work as well (as long as users have direct access to that place as well).
  • Hope you have a great week. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge.