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Articulate presentations designed for kids?
Hello all,
The organization I work for is making our first foray into e-learning, after 40+ years teaching elementary-age children in classroom settings. We're still at the stage of selecting authoring software and, in fact, deciding whether we'll even go the rapid authoring route.
I've spent the past few weeks researching rapid authoring tools and I have not yet seen a single example of an e-learning presentation designed for children with one of these tools. Articulate is currently our front-runner, because it's so user-friendly for non-programmers, but we have concerns about whether we'll be able to customize it enough to make presentations both engaging to children and able to be done independently by kids as young as 7 or 8. Does anyone know of any examples of content for children created in Articulate?
Thanks!
Chris
Hi Christen,
Wish I had more details but maybe one of the folks here can fill in the blanks...
Several years ago at Training Magazine's Expo in Orlando FLA, one of the big show winners was an e-learning designed for middle schoolers as I recall it. Kind of monochromatic with a goldish background and line art-type illustrations. The interactivity was great.
Anyone remember or have a lead on who did that?
Well I am not at liberty to share yet but my Guru idea is a kid program. I am having fun with it.
I think that Articulate is perfect. It is simple and interactive it really come down to you and your skills. In my recent pet project i am using my newly found PPT graphic skills to create interactive mapping that will teach the use a skill at their own pace and in their own order.
I believe that some of this is created with Articulate
http://www.e-learningforkids.org/
This is my main menu screen. Exclusively created in PPT.
Jefferson County Public Schools uses a combination of Articulate and Lectora for their eSchool program. They won an award in 2007 for some of their work with the older version of Articulate. Although a good deal of their work is geared toward high school students, they do some middle school and and possibly some elementary school. I'm sure at the least they could offer advice on the elementary aged students.
A couple good contacts there would be:
Artie Dietz artie.dietz@jefferson.kyschools.us
Judy Reeves judy.reeves@jefferson.kyschools.us
I recently did some tutorials for k-6 using Articulate presenter..
I have been doing a lot of math for k-6 using Ariculate Quizmaker...
I will try and get some samples up for you , but basically Articulate is not limiting..
cheers
Hemant
Hi Christen - Maybe this sample would give you some ideas? It was modeled after the content at EnergyKids.
This is a quick demo I did of a children's course on crocodiles.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25523292/Fun%20Facts/player.html
I think articulate is a GREAT resource for creating kids courses. The biggest challenge would be making buttons intuitive. Making them larger than usual is probably a good idea.
If I were to finish this course I would probably add voice, and have buttons flash when they are supposed to press on them. (To make the choice more obvious)Love it, Kayla! Especially the little progress meter at the bottom. Thanks for sharing!
That looks great Kayla! What font did you use in that course? IT's a great example of a themed course for a specific audience.
It's Kristen ITC.
Honestly not sure where it came from, I just scrolled through the fonts on my computer till I found one I like, it might just come with powerpoint/windows, or I may have "inherited" it from a previous owner of my work computer. It is my favourite "hand printed" font, because it is really easy to read.
It's my favorite fun font too! (but I might be biased)
