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mission is to provide our customers the highest
level of expertise with an understanding that
people, not hardware or software, are the most
important component of computer technology."
Design-a-Course, allowing users to easily, quickly
and inexpensively create their own e-Learning,
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1. Instructional Design Best Practices
and Procedures: #6 in a Series — "Test Assessment"
Test Construction an essay by Delano
P Wegener, Ph.D.
Rationale for Tests: Measures of student performance
(testing) may have as many as five purposes:
- Student Placement,
- Diagnosis of Difficulties,
- Checking Student Progress,
- Reports to Student and Superiors,
- Evaluation of Instruction.
Unfortunately the most common perception
is that tests are designed to statistically rank all students
according to a sampling of their knowledge of a subject and
to report that ranking to superiors or anyone else interested
in using that information to adversely influence the student's
feeling of self-worth. It is even more unfortunate that the
perception matches reality in the majority of testing situations.
Consequently tests are highly stressful anxiety producing events
for most persons.
For the complete article, click
here.
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2. Design-a-Course K-12
Giveaway — The Momentum is Building Last month
MindIQ launched the Design-a-Course K-12 Giveaway. We have
had a lot of schools sign up with the word spreading fast.
Schools can enroll in the program by going to MindIQ’s
web site at www.mindiq.com
and follow the e-Learning links.
There are three requirements of the program:
- Schools must be willing to share any generic student
or staff development courses they develop with any other
school that is part of the Design-a-Course K-12 Giveaway
Program.
- Each school must be willing to have someone at the school
test and report on new releases of Design-a-Course.
- Each school must appoint one person to be the contact
for funneling new ideas and reporting any questions or errors.
Any place a student or teacher can connect to the Internet,
they can keep up with their studies. Plus, teachers and administrators
can share courseware with other teachers throughout the U.S.
and keep up with students’ progress via the Internet.
If you know someone in the K-12 school system (public or
private) feel free to send this email to them. There is no
charge and it is a great way to help our country's educational
system. This is also a great tool for staff development.
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3. Tech Tip — Don't Forget
Your Tokens! The latest functionality that has been
added to Design-a-Course is, "Tokens". One of the
benefits of tokens is they are designed to work in the same
manner as a merge field from a database. Tokens allow you
to change information that needs to be frequently updated
in your course, such as pricing, product numbers, names, etc.
As an example — You may list the current price for
'Product A' as $29.95 in multiple pages of your course. Let's
say the following week you reduce the price by $5.00 to $24.95.
Instead of browsing to all the pages in your course that list
the current price of $29.95 and manually adjust the price,
you make the change from the Token menu and Design-a-Course
will automatically make the update everywhere in the course
the token is used. Then click the Upload button and your course
is updated to everyone worldwide. The entire process takes
less then two minutes.
To use a token:
- Click the page in the outline where your price for 'Product
A' appears.
- On that page click where you want the price to appear.
- Click the Token icon. (The Token is the last small button
on the toolbar.
It is a T with a circle around it.) You can also click Edit
-> Insert ->Token from the pull-down menu at the top.
- For NAME enter 'Product A price', For VALUE enter '$29.95'.
- Repeat steps 1-4 everywhere Product A price appears in
your course.
Then, when you want to change the price
for Product A:
- Click the PROPERTIES button.
- Select the Customization tab.
- Change the value of Product A price to $24.95.
- Click the OK button and the price will automatically
update all the 'Product A price' tokens in the course with
the new price.
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4. Question of the Month —
"How do I make a copy of a course in Design-a-Course?"
- Highlight the course you want copied in the course catalog.
- Click the Export button. Save the course into
your backup folder or any folder you keep backups in.
- In the course catalog, Open that course.
- Click the Properties icon and the General tab.
- Change the Course Title and Directory name to whatever
you want. Click OK.
- Click the Catalog icon to return to the course
catalog. Your course will now show up with its new name.
- Click the Import Course button and navigate
to where you saved your course.
- Highlight the original course and click Import.
You will now have two courses, with the exact
same content but with different names in your course catalog.
This "Save As" function can be handy for unique branding
of the same course for different audiences.
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5. Trade Show Updates — SHRM
Orlando, FL June 22 - 25, 2003
SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management)
55th Annual Conference & Exposition
Conference Date: June 22 - 25, 2003 Location: Orlando, FL
Visit our booth and see — The Easiest Way to Train
Anyone... Anywhere! If you don't want to wait until June simply
click
here and then Take a Tour.
See how your HR department can now deliver courses that include
contacts for the employees, phone numbers, and incident reporting
procedures. With Design-a-Course’s real-time question
scoring and reporting, accountability is assured.
For complete information on the conference, click
here.
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