Cheryl Farren Tkacs, M.Ed.

Instructional Designer/eLSS

Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus

Prem Sattsangi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus

© 2010

What are learning styles?

Learning styles are simply different approaches or ways of learning*.

*“Learning Styles take your test.,” n.d.

• learn through seeing...

Visual Learners

• learn through listening...

Auditory Learners

• learn through moving, doing, and touching...

Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners

So… what is your style of learning?

“Thus, even when teachers make the effort to gather data about students’ learning styles, they may not know how to modify instruction to best meet students’ individual needs.”

Zhang, L.-F. a. (2009). Perspectives on the Nature of Intellectual Styles. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Adobe Presenter in PowerPoint

1. Begin by creating your PowerPoint presentation.

2. Enhance it by:

• Adding audio

• Adding video

• Adding quizzes and surveys

3. Publish it using Adobe Presenter

Use a new or existing PP and add any formatting, graphics, backgrounds, animations or transitions to the slides.

Create the PowerPoint Presentation

1. Choose Record Audio from the Adobe Presenter ribbon.

2. Click OK when the Input Level indicator turns GREEN.

3. Begin recording audio/narration. Click Stop when finished.

Adding Narration

1. Choose Import Video from the Adobe Presenter ribbon. 2. In the dialog box, find your video or Flash file, preview it and then click

Open. The file is inserted on the slide. 3. To preview the file in the presentation, click Slide Show and choose

From Current Slide.

Adding Video

1. Choose Quiz Manager from the Adobe Presenter ribbon. The new quiz is created.

2. Click Add New Question. Choose the type of question you would like to create.

3. Fill in question properties. Continue until you have created all questions and click OK in the Quiz Manager.

4. New slides are added to the presentation for each question you created.

Adding Quizzes and Surveys

1. Choose Slide manager, Presentation Settings, and/or Preferences. 2. You can change the presentation title, add a presentation summary,

and select other presentation settings from these dialog boxes. 3. Use the Attachments tab to add documents or web links to your

presentation.

Before publishing the presentation…

1. Choose Publish from the Adobe Presenter menu. 2. Confirm the options you have chosen on the Publish dialog box. 3. Click Publish. If you publish locally, you can click View Output to

see the presentation after conversion is complete

Publishing the Presentation

Advantages of using Presenter

1. Creates an interactive presentation for online and blended courses – Interactive visualizations allow users to adapt the form and

content to their individual learning styles

– The final presentation is AICC* and SCORM* compliant

– AICC standards apply to the development, delivery, and evaluation of training courses that are delivered via technology. (Aviation Industry CBT [Computer-Based Training] Committee )

– SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model, which is a set of specifications that, when applied to course content, produces small, reusable e-Learning objects.

2. Small file size even with narration, animation, and video

• Design your online presentation based on the bandwidth capabilities of your audience.

• Consider creating a written script before recording audio for your presentation.

• Add animations to enhance the overall presentation, if your audience has fast connections.

• Add video to presentation slides or to the sidebar to reuse information you already have.

• Create presentations that are a manageable size.

• Preview the presentation by publishing it locally before publishing to a Connect Pro Server.

• Create slide titles to give users easy access to any slide.

Adobe recommends these best practices for creating presentations:

Books

• Armstrong, T. (2009). Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

• Hoover, J. J. (2009). Differentiating Learning Differences from Disabilities. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson.

• Pritchard, A. M. (2009). Ways of Learning: Learning Theories and Learning Styles in the Classroom. London, New York: Routledge.

• Zhang, L.-F. a. (2009). Perspectives on the Nature of Intellectual Styles. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Web Pages

• “Scaffolding - Definition of Instructional Scaffolding,” n.d. http://k6educators.about.com/od/educationglossary/g/scaffolding.htm.

• “Scaffolding and Sequencing,” n.d. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/webdesign/Scaffolding/.

• “ScienceDirect - Studies in Multidisciplinarity : 17 A descriptive framework for designing interaction for visual abstractions1,” n.d. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B8GY6-4NTJ40W-P&_user=209810&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2005&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1320444997&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000014439&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=209810&md5=d04f335fa0ee245fc88cfcfc2dd2282f.

• “Useful Instructional Strategies,” n.d. http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/literacy/lit_ins4.html.

References