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Absorb Activities: Presentations, Readings, and Stories

This chapter provides examples of absorb activities, including presentations, readings, and stories. Learn how to effectively use these activities in your project to engage learners and enhance their knowledge and skills.

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Absorb Activities: Presentations, Readings, and Stories

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  1. Chapter 2 Absorb-type activities

  2. Reminder • In your project you are asked to design a variety (Absorb, Do, and Connect) activities. • This chapters show you examples of Absorb activities.

  3. Types of Absorb Activities • Presentations • Readings • Stories by a teacher • Field trips

  4. When to use absorb activity? Absorb activities are not inherently interesting • Learners need an introduction • To extent current knowledge and skills (new versions, new software) • To prepare for Do and Connect activities • Best for highly motivated learners

  5. Types of presentations • Slide shows • Physical demonstrations (repairing, kicking, performing) • Software demonstration • Informational films (instructional video) • Dramas • Discussion Presentations

  6. How to use slide shows • Communicate visually (convert paragraphs to picture, tables, lists, illustrations instead of bullet points)- Silent movie • Narrate clearly ( provide transcripts as well) • Animate graphics (to tell a story or show a process) • Follow visual principles (no cluttered screens)

  7. How to do physical demonstration • Preview the action (preparation, rehearsal) • Use close-ups (magnifier- if needed use Elmo) • Move smoothly • Keep it short • Let learners control ( let them pause you online or if recorded let them re-play pause)

  8. Software demonstrations • Could be used in standalone e-learning or in live demonstrations in f2f classes.

  9. Types of software demonstration • Scenario demonstration (make a multiple choice question with Zebrazapps) • User-interface tours (explain the icons and windows) • Feature demonstration (what could be done with each button)

  10. How to use software demonstration • Introduce the demonstration (what will gain) • keep it simple and to the point • Clarify this is not a software simulation • Follow it with a simulation • Invite learner to follow along • Provide a low-bandwidth version

  11. Where to use informational video • Cause and effect relationships • Chronological sequence • Chain of actions or discoveries

  12. Best practices • Borrow it if you can • Get permission • Design for the small screen • Beware of bandwidth

  13. Dramas • Learners watch a fictional scene among people, to illustrate a situation (e.g., good interview, classroom management,…etc.) • A drama is the fictional counterpart of informational video • It could be live, still images, voice, or video

  14. Best practices • Write credible dialog • Hire good actors • Don’t forget the drama (not predictable) • Tell a story (with characters, a crisis, and resolution for good or ill)

  15. Discussion Presentation • When a speech is too boring you may use discussion/debate presentation • Helps elicit valuable information and opinions from experts

  16. Types of discussion presentations • News interviews • Talk-show interviews • Debates • Panel discussion • Mock trials

  17. Best practices for presentations • Give learners control path and pace of presentation • Reading along while listening will help?? • Supply many examples (not simply theories) • Provide immediate practice • Augment your presentation (create navigation to title, intro, summary) • Pick the best mix of media • Keep learners active • Borrow (pre made presentations)

  18. Readings • Sometimes the best e-learning is a good book.. or a good e-book Reading may be a more active learning experience than some learning games especially as learner skims, peruses, reads, imagines, compares, re-reads, jots notes, makes bookmarks, and reflects.

  19. A Big Misconception • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXQo7nURs0

  20. When to use reading activities • Learners need deeper knowledge • You don’t have time to develop more interactive materials • Well-written documents are readily available • Learners are skillful readers • Learners are motivated enough to read on their own

  21. Types of readings • Individual documents • Libraries of documents to select from (link to docs) • Predefined searches to find internet resources Don’t forget to include standard references such as “Bible, constitution, classic books…etc.”

  22. Check this out

  23. Internet Resources • Link to Internet resources • Provide specific search terms • Sources of useful documents • scholar.google.com • http://academic.research.microsoft.com • http://books.google.com • www.gutenberg.org • books24x7.com

  24. Best practices for reading activities • Grow your library gradually • Publish a usage policy • Simplify obtaining documents • Link to publisher’s sale site • Link to Amazon, Barnes& Noble • Set up your own bookstore • Buy limited electronic rights JUST for your students • Provide documents in multiple formats • Provide active (interactive) examples

  25. Stories by a teacher • Stories by a teacher is an Absorb activity but stories by students are Connect activity.

  26. Types of stories • Hero stories • Love stories • Disaster stories • Tragedies • Discovery stories

  27. Best practices for stories by a teacher • Tell effective stories • The story is credible, important, short and focused, dramatic, tell about something that students care about, tell with emotion, the moral is clear • Polish the telling • Coach storytellers, casual language, good voice and high sound quality (if online), repeat and rehearse • Develop the story • Show the face of the storyteller, illustrate the story, spread a single complex story throughout a lesson

  28. Field trips • Students may tour an online presentation of a farm, an exhibit, a museum, a monument, or a historical town.

  29. When to use it? • Use it when you don’t have time or budget to do a real field trip • Show how concepts taught in the course are applied (or misapplied) in real world • Provide access to concrete examples • Reveal examples in context (food chain) • Orient learners in a new environment • Encourage discovery of patterns

  30. Types of field trips • Guided tours • Museums

  31. Examples of guided tours • Personal travel diaries (with pictures) • Web tours (screen casting) • Tours of imaginary worlds • The human body • An imaginary town • A cave • The atom

  32. Best practices • Let learners click, zoom, rotate, and focus • Tell them where to pause, notice, or focus • Show spatial relationships (overlap stops so they can see next stop) • Encourage self exploration • Make side excursions safe (they can come back and rejoin tour) • Anchor each stop with a visual • Keep the tour focused

  33. Virtual museums Other names: web-based museums, e-museums, virtual galleries, online museums, and online galleries.

  34. Best practices for field trips • Require learning (not just fun) • Include variety of media • Tell what is important (why take chances?) • Annotate exhibits thoroughly (15 details) • Let learners inspect items in detail • Help them to download what they want

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