Stump The Teacher Icon Archive - Search 462,351 free icons, desktop icons, download icons, social icons, xp icons, vista icons School Library Journal - Books, Multimedia, & Technology-Children & Teens Free Technology for Teachers How To Organize Content People who create online learning get involved in many types of content development tasks. In addition to researching and developing content for courses, you may find yourself creating training manuals for webinars or the classroom, writing web copy, making reference materials, and developing Electronic Performance Support Systems, Help documentation, presentations and so on. During all of these tasks, you will be organizing content at a high level to give it a meaningful structure. A meaningful structure is logical, helping people to comprehend and retain the content as well as helping them quickly find the content they need. Assuming that you’ve sufficiently wrapped your mind around the content, use the list below to find the most effective strategy for organizing it. 1. A conventional but important organizing principle for content is alphabetical order. 2. Some content has a flat structure. 3. 4. Often content has its own structure that is cognitively natural to the subject. 5. 6. 7.
6thchat - home 6 Alternatives To Bullet Lists Sharebar Bullets make lists of important points easy to read. When those near-perfect little circles are vertically aligned, readers can quickly process the text. Learners and audiences need novelty to maintain and sustain attention. Here are six bullet alternatives you can create in any graphics program or in PowerPoint. Alternative 1: Use text boxes A simple alternative to a list is to place each item into a a text box that is arranged in a suitable layout. Alternative 2: Let icons do the talking Using the same text boxes as above, this approach adds icons to the words. These icons were found at Iconfinder. You can take this approach one step further by accentuating the graphic more than the words. These icons are courtesy of BuildInternet!. Alternative 3: Let People Speak Your List When you use people cutouts to speak your points, no one will suspect this is a list. These cutout people are from the eLearning Brothers. Alternative 4: Wrap the list around a picture
5thchat - home No School - All Schools! "No School - All Schools - Boston""No School - All Schools - Canton""No School - All Schools - Walpole" Yippee! That's the one! I remember sitting in front of the television or listening to the radio with my brothers and sisters waiting for the No School - All School announcement! Living in the "W" town our anticipation kept building and building after each letter of the alphabet. There is something magical about a Snow Day off from School - UNLESS you are a parent. That being said - there are many parents that are home with the kids and they may be wondering "what can we do today"? SNOWDAY: This site shares "25 things to do" My favorites are: #3: 'Break out the photo album and share stories of when you were a child (or share the stories of what was happening when you took the pictures of your kids.)#16 'Put on a show'. 40 THINGS TO DO ON A SNOW DAY: This site offers '40 things to do' with links or directions. #2: 'Make homemade Playdough' What child can not resist using play dough!