On Mon Dec 3, 2007, Randy Hengst iowahengst at mac.com wrote:
Len, a puzzle I made of the contiguous US, I included a "hint" button
that would show the outlines of the states. I'll do something along
those lines for regions version. I also plan to create a puzzle for
each of the 5 regions as organized in my son's social studies text.
When completed, the opening screen will be a US map with each region
shaded. The user will click the region to practice. So, it will be
more obvious that the puzzle is for only one region.
I like your idea to add the star for the capital name in the matching
game. My context for this specific version was my son's needs. He
knew the names of the states, but not the postal abbreviations or
capitals. So, he recognized that the capital name wasn't a state when
he began.
Geography is a field that is very suitable for producing educational
stacks, both because of the graphical elements in such exercises and the
possibilty to implement fundamental principles of learning - as can be
seen in your stack.
Incidentally - and for the same reasons - there are three such stacks
available from my website,
page <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia/StudentStacks-eng.htm>
produced some time ago by teacher students during multimedia workshops -
at a time when we still had the wonderful situation to use free Starter
Kit versions of Metacard and Revolution, which were only "restricted"
by a 10-line script limit, which, however, could easily be overcome in
the case of beginning programmers. Meaning: Such beginning programmers
tend to produce simpler programs.
Since such free Starter Kits have been no longer available as a
wonderful basis to teach educational programming we have abandoned most
of such efforts, and now use Revolution mainly with small groups of
faculty, e.g. for the development of software applied in the
foreign-language deparments.
Anyway, the student stacks on my website might be indeed interesting in
the way they deal with the ten-line script limit, but also because of
some creative elements in them. On the other side they can also contain
some basic deficiencies one should avoid by all means in educational
programming, such as the fixed order of the sequence of maps and their
corresponding state names in the first exercise of the "German States"
stack; the other exercises of this stack are better and more flexibly
programmed.
Two of the geographical stacks on the "Student Samples" page have a
entirely German surface, which would make it difficult for a speaker not
familiar with German to navigate and understand what is going on in the
stack.
This holds for the "Europe" stack, which might otherwise be interesting
because of its ample integration of images and sound, and for the German
version of "German States".
Fortunately there is also an English version of the "German States"
stack with four exercises, of which all scripts are accessible.-
Best regards,
Wilhelm Sanke
<http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>
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