Questions and brainstorming about implementation

• Do I need to get permission from any vendors for screen-shots?

• How can I incorporate the stand up/sit down method for explaining Boolean operators that Roxanne described as being so helpful? A number of tutorials used Venn diagrams to explain Boolean logic in a way that seemed intuitive.

• A way to incorporate multiple examples could look something like this:
Explanation ⇒ 1 example (chosen randomly from a pool of examples) ⇒ Go On OR See Another Example (randomly chosen from remaining examples)

• Include closed captions as an option, but don’t default to them. (Difference between closed captions, which would replicate the entire spoken text, and call-outs, which would highlight particularly important aspects of the narration.)

• It seems to me that using a physical worksheet for the activities is desirable, both so that students can easily refer back to their work in the class discussion and the end and so that they can be handed in to Roxanne for the purposes of evaluating the module’s effectiveness. I should be sure this isn’t a faulty assumption, though. Would there be a better way to serve both of these functions?

• Will this be hosted on the Life Science Library’s website or on blackboard so that it can be referred back to later? How else could we provide something for students to refer to later? If it will be used separately from the course it will be important to make it easy to navigate between different parts of the module. In other words, for an in-class implementation of this module, linear navigation makes the most sense, but if it might be used in other ways, other methods of navigation could be necessary.

• A possible solution to this could be to have two different versions that are only slightly different in navigation style.

• What do I need to know in order to do the implementation? Who do I need to talk to?

• Where should call-outs go in order to minimize how they disrupt the view of the entire screen?

• How will I strike a balance between having enough change in the visuals to make them interesting and having too much?