Ideas for displaying a large image with text

If the text is the important part and you don't need the image itself you might try manually typing the text into a regular text box and then inserting that into a scrolling panel that the user can scroll through at their own pace. Then on your question slides just add a button to Lightbox the text slide so users can reference back to it if desired. (You can also put an image in a scrolling panel if its width fits. This allows you to scroll up and down on a tall thin image, like an infographic.)

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do...

Hi,

You actually understood perfectly :-) the image is *of text*, so I guess my initial thoughts of using a text box and not the image were correct.

Thanks for the lightbox idea in the question slides, my next step was to think how the learner can refer back to the text.

Thanks for the help!

Maya

Delighted to see that Brett was able to help you out, Maya! Thanks for the update. :)

Just a personal design preference here. That much text on one slide is not sound pedagogy. Much better is to break it up into several logical chunks placed on several slides with a click to advance trigger. With careful transitions and animations, it can appear that the text is moving, if you think changing slides is lame. Nancy Duarte says if a slide has more than 75 words, it is not a slide, but a document. I personally think the threshold is closer to 25 words. Crowded slides hamper, not help learning.

FWIW

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Walt! :)

Hi Maya,

Another option would be to place the conversation transcript in a pdf and attach it in the resources tab. Then when they come to the section in the course where they need to read it direct them to stop there, open the link and read the document, before they begin the quiz.

Thanks everyone for your insights! Very helpful. In this case the transcript wasn't that long so it made sense to use a scrolling panel and then Lightbox that slide in the quiz slides. I may encounter longer transcripts in the near future, in which case I will use the "resources" option.

Can I hijack my own thread to ask another question re "wordbank / fill in the blanks" quiesitons?

I have several interactions to do that are of "fill in the blanks" type. Some had just 2 missing words in 2 sentences, so I did that as a drag and drop.

I now have a very long sentence with 9 missing words, which the learner needs to select from the 16-word "bank". I'm doing that one as a drag and drop too, but thought that maybe you guys will have some better ideas for me? I haven't used all of SL's cool interaction types and maybe there's something that I'm missing? 

Again, appreciate the help! You guys are my only source of information :-)

Maya