Developing Interactive and Animated Learning Units Using RoboDemo

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Developing Interactive and Animated Learning
UnitsUsing RoboDemo

• Arturo Sanchez (arturo_at_acm.org)
• OFE Faculty Fellow
• CIS Department
• University of North Florida
• Jacksonville, FL
• Fall 2003

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The Presenter

• Assistant Professor, CIS Department
• Coordinator of the Software Engineering Graduate
  Track
• OFE Faculty Fellow (2003-2004)

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This Presentation

• What is an interactive and animated learning
  unit?
• Building them using RoboDemo
• Animation
• Interaction (quizzes)
• Interoperability
• Resources

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My Goals

• Make audience aware of the existence of tools
  such as RoboDemo.
• As an OFE Faculty Fellow I can assist you in
  building your own.
• My office hours are M, W 11-12 in the CIRT Lab.

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Anatomy of a Learning Unit

• Animation

• Interaction

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Anatomy of a Learning Unit

• Animation
• Smooth movement (mouse cursor, text, etc)
• Floating captions
• Rollovers
• Sound

• Interaction

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Anatomy of a Learning Unit

• Animation

• Interaction
• Text boxes
• Check boxes
• Buttons
• VCR-like controls

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Few Examples

• How to Register? (UNFs Center for PD)
• Tutorial from RD Website
• More demos from RD Website

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Filmstrip Metaphor

• Sequence of frames (images)
• Whats in each frame?
• Interaction
• Animation
• Flow of control among frames (whats the next
  frame?)
• Tools add smooth transition in between frames

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Filmstrip Metaphor
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Filmstrip Metaphor
Conditions
Images
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A Pattern for Building LU

• Capture images associated with frames
• Add elements to each frame
• Interaction
• Sound
• Animation
• Thread frames by adding flow of control and
  complex functionality (if needed)
• Test your movie
• Export your movie

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Capturing Frames

• RoboDemo implements the camcorder metaphor
• Hit record
• Let the tool take frame shots of your actions
• Hit end
• and voila! You have your frames!
• Lets try it

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Capturing Frames

• We already have a movie!
• Which we can preview
• Lets try it

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Adding Elements to Frames

• Interaction
• Example text boxes (importance of attaching)
• Example quizzes

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Threading

• Depends on the inserted element that allows for
  conditions and branching
• Examples are text fields and quizzes

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Adding Complex Functionality

• User interaction can be captured and processed by
  a JavaScript script.
• Needs knowledge of JS and programming (heres
  were I can be of help ?)

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Adding Elements to Frames

• Pretty simple
• bring the frame to the workbench and work
  onit!
• Lets see

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Exporting and Testing

• Pretty simple as well
• Lets try it

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Interoperability

• LMS
• Web Services!
• Learning Objects
• SCORM
• AICC
• Example
• Macromedias Authorware

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Resources

• eHelp Corporation Website
• eHelp Community
• Examples to be added to the OFE website in the
  Spring of 2004 as part of my tenure as FF
• Tool available at CIRT Lab