I would greatly appreciate some leads/referrals to someone or some place that can assist me to clarify and engage the best non-techie-friendly elearning software for my non-profit organization's new arts-based certification program curriculum...for starters, what's the best, most approachable conduit that will allow the curriculum's multi-category text to achieve deliverability online?! Thank you!
I'm understanding you want something for elearning that is for non-techie people. What I don't understand is what does "multi-category text" mean? When you say elearning do you want slides, video, quizzes, online grading, what specifically would you like to do? There is software that will convert a PowerPoint presentation into Flash which many people use but you won't get quizzes or online grading that can be recorded. The more stuff you want, the techier it gets :o) Studio is a great program if you are using PowerPoint because you can add these things easily. If you give more details I'm sure many people in this awesome community can give you multiple options!
Thank you for responding and for encouraging me to connect with this community!
I am the non-techie person actually…someone who can do a few things but not the initial set-up or over-all design, technically, for this curriculum. I wrote all the arts-based curriculum text.
And, of course, we want the offering to be very easy and approachable for the (perhaps, non-techie) users.
There are twelve "chapters" in the curriculum, based upon twelve communication competencies, each one of which includes discursive text (questions, competency descriptions, notable quotes) all original literary, musical and theatrical prompts…that’s what I meant by “multi-category."
We need to have simple and visually interesting ways to present and distinguish each category of text and have the pages designed in such a way so that we can work with them, easily tweak or add to them, if need be, as this program goes forth. Once the design of each category is done, we would just repeat that design every chapter because all the categories of text repeat each chapter.
The curriculum is currently residing in an odt document, ninety-six pages of text.
What we want is along the lines of a “workbook” or e-workbook, I guess you could say, and the participants would be doing independent study with it and then there will be one meeting a week, or bi-monthly, for the community of participants to check in, share and add to their progress.
We have audio recordings that I imagine would be linked mp3s and illustrations that would be integrated with the text. Besides listening to recorded songs and other recorded material (theatrical vignettes), the action is to read the text, think about it and respond through writing. There is one brief animated video that is part of the curriculum. There won’t be grading…just a practicum and written exam at the very end required for certification.
I think of Power Point (and please correct me if I am not understanding correctly) as a “live” or in-motion transference of info…except for the recordings, this is just text, mostly, that prompts people to reflect and response write. We will include the theatrical scripts and lyrics that go with the recordings and literary passages as evocations for reflection and writing.
Because this is a language-centric program inviting people to consider their ways of thinking, we want the presentation of the narrative-intense material to have some visual interest and design but not too distracting, just to help the focus and flow.
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Hi Pamela,
I'm understanding you want something for elearning that is for non-techie people. What I don't understand is what does "multi-category text" mean? When you say elearning do you want slides, video, quizzes, online grading, what specifically would you like to do? There is software that will convert a PowerPoint presentation into Flash which many people use but you won't get quizzes or online grading that can be recorded. The more stuff you want, the techier it gets :o) Studio is a great program if you are using PowerPoint because you can add these things easily. If you give more details I'm sure many people in this awesome community can give you multiple options!
Hello Raul!
Thank you for responding and for encouraging me to connect with this community!
I am the non-techie person actually…someone who can do a few things but not the initial set-up or over-all design, technically, for this curriculum. I wrote all the arts-based curriculum text.
And, of course, we want the offering to be very easy and approachable for the (perhaps, non-techie) users.
There are twelve "chapters" in the curriculum, based upon twelve communication competencies, each one of which includes discursive text (questions, competency descriptions, notable quotes) all original literary, musical and theatrical prompts…that’s what I meant by “multi-category."
We need to have simple and visually interesting ways to present and distinguish each category of text and have the pages designed in such a way so that we can work with them, easily tweak or add to them, if need be, as this program goes forth. Once the design of each category is done, we would just repeat that design every chapter because all the categories of text repeat each chapter.
The curriculum is currently residing in an odt document, ninety-six pages of text.
What we want is along the lines of a “workbook” or e-workbook, I guess you could say, and the participants would be doing independent study with it and then there will be one meeting a week, or bi-monthly, for the community of participants to check in, share and add to their progress.
We have audio recordings that I imagine would be linked mp3s and illustrations that would be integrated with the text. Besides listening to recorded songs and other recorded material (theatrical vignettes), the action is to read the text, think about it and respond through writing. There is one brief animated video that is part of the curriculum. There won’t be grading…just a practicum and written exam at the very end required for certification.
I think of Power Point (and please correct me if I am not understanding correctly) as a “live” or in-motion transference of info…except for the recordings, this is just text, mostly, that prompts people to reflect and response write. We will include the theatrical scripts and lyrics that go with the recordings and literary passages as evocations for reflection and writing.
Because this is a language-centric program inviting people to consider their ways of thinking, we want the presentation of the narrative-intense material to have some visual interest and design but not too distracting, just to help the focus and flow.
Thanks, again, Raul!
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