Friday, 20 March 2009

Interactive maps

I created an interactive map of exmouth including pictures, sounds, video and web links. I think this would be an excellent way for pupils to present work from project. It allows them to show a wider variety of work than could be presented on a classroom wall including any films, animations, photos of audio recordings.

I did not find it overly complicated but I did have difficulty finding the invisible links to click on when testing my presentation. This was because the link would shrink to a very small spot in the middle of the box I had placed. With children I would probably stick to visible links to sounds and pictures etc.

I can now use what I have learnt to make better interactive presentations and games for my own lessons!

2 comments:

  1. I completely agree lisa. I found it to be a very rewarding peiced of work myself. I did my map on my own house, which is partly why i like it so much becuase it can be tailored to and made personal to the learner!

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  2. Yeah I had similar problems but as long as the invisible link is locked in place and correctly set up (menu at top of screen) it should work. Although I agree that these problems could frustrate children and detract from the learning objective of the given lesson. I too found that I now have the tools necessary to create better PP's for lessons and the knowledge to share with my learners.

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