Flash Media LIbrary Examples

[DianeElkins]

If you'd like to see working examples of each of the options in the new Flash Media Library that comes with Lectora version 9, go to:
http://www.e-learninguncovered.com/flash_library_flash_media_library.htmlIf you'd like to see working examples of each of the options in the new Flash Media Library that comes with Lectora version 9, go to:
http://www.e-learninguncovered.com/flash_library_flash_media_library.html

[DianeElkins]

I've just updated the website to include examples of the new Categories Game and Million Dollar Question game.  Plus, there is a downloadable guide on how to use the Flash Media Library for both version 9 and version 9.2, since the procedure is now a little different.

http://www.e-learninguncovered.com/flash_library_flash_media_library.html

[tecocat]

Cool resources -- thanks! 

[whorah]

 Hey there Diane and Kitty...

Not to sound like a goof or anything, but how again do we access or get the Flash Media Library? I have looked and looked and can't locate them. I know I have seen them before, but haven't used them. Diane, your demo inspired me to check them out again.

I know I am using the latest and greatest of Lectora "Enterprise 2008 (5043), yet I still can't locate the Flash library.

Can you help?

Thanks

DianeElkins said:If you'd like to see working examples of each of the options in the new Flash Media Library that comes with Lectora version 9, go to: http://www.e-learninguncovered.com/flash_library_flash_media_library.html

[tecocat]

Bradley-boy - I don't think you are using the "latest and greatest" Lectora -- wouldn't it say "Version 9.2" if you were? At any rate, I know that the Flash library was first added with V9, which I haven't had the courage to install yet, because I'm a 'fraidy (Teco)cat. (I was so excited about the upgrade, but then read stories in the forum/lounge about people having problems with courses that worked in 2008 and having to uninstall v9 and reinstall 2008 and I've been too under the gun with projects to take a chance of things not working right that did before (or new problems cropping up)).

So, while I've seen examples of the flash library stuff (thanks to Diane and others), I can't help you access it, because I can't do it myself yet! However, sooner or later I'm going to take the plunge and upgrade (can't wait to have that "smooth" move-to path-animation-like action!). If I get there before you do (and you don't get an answer from anyone else in the meantime), I'll post back and let you know...

On a separate, but related note, I have to say that, after looking at Diane's samples, there looks to be a few of neat things there, but a lot of them seem a little weak or mystify me in terms of their educational value. For example, I thought the jigsaw activity would be kind of like one I created from scratch myself -- a game where the learner has to answer a question to earn a piece of the puzzle to eventually see the completed picture. But this one looks like a regular jigsaw puzzle, in which they just have to put the pieces in the right spots to complete the picture. I have no clue what kind of instructional-design issue that would be a solution for...but maybe I'm just missing something obvious? Otherwise, it just seems like a non-educational busy-work activity, like a word search would be.

[DianeElkins]

You are both correct, the Flash Media Libaray is new to version 9, and improved in 9.2.

And I agree that some of the games have less of an instructional value than you might want.  For the jigsaw puzzle, the one instructional application I could see is if the picture was of some sort of diagram or figure the student has been learning.  Knowing how the diagram is put together would make it easier to solve the puzzle.  Plus, just interacting with the diagram one extra time might reinforce it.

The other one that has limited instructional value is the concentration game.  I would have hoped that it let you match up pairs, such as matching Print to Ctrl +P or an acronym to its meaning, etc.  But instead, both values have to be exactly the same:  So you would be matching Print to Print.  Just busy work.  Although I did talk to someone at the last Users Conference who said she would probably use it anyway to reinforce some terminology.  She said that even though it doesn't "test" them, encountering the terms one more time would make the student think about them.  I created my own concentration game in Lectora a few years ago that works the way I want, so I think I'll stick with that. 

I really like the flash cards -- it can be used to both present and to do a non-graded self-check.  The photo viewer is nice also. I've used it to present steps in a process.

[DianeElkins]

If you'd like to see working examples of each of the options in the new Flash Media Library that comes with Lectora version 9, go to:
http://www.e-learninguncovered.com/f...a_library.html

The website has been updated to include the new Flash games in Lectora X: hangman, reveal, and word scramble.

[cozmo]

Ok, I have v9.3, and I do see the library with the objects in there (clock, million dollar question, etc), but how do I modify them and their parameters? All I see are the insert-able objects (.swfs), but I can't edit them.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

[DianeElkins]

When you insert one of them into your title, a wizard should pop up that walks you through the various configuration options. Having said that, there have been a couple of times that I insert one of them and the wizard does not appear. Usually, when I delete it and then insert it again, the wizard appears.
Also, in the Properties dialog box, there is an Edit button that should bring up the wizard to let you edit your settings.

[DianeElkins]

Well, it only took me 8 months, but we've finally added the new X.4 games to the media library examples (golf, bowling, basketball). Plus, we've moved it over to our new website, so here's the new link to it:
Flash Media Library