When creating interactive materials:
- ensure activities meet specific objectives, whether for an
individual class or at the level of the department
- balance activities so that students are not always exposed to
the same type of exercise. Design activities so that students move
from straightforward word recognition to more demanding
comprehension exercises.
- respond to different learning styles among students by
incorporating images and audio into interactive materials
- take advantage of the ease of creating interactive materials to
construct differentiated exercises to meet the differing levels of
ability among students
When working with authoring software
- ensure that the licence for the authoring software is adequate
to meet all needs, current and future
- store activities in a shared resource bank so that colleagues
can use and adapt what has been created. In this way, work is
shared while resources grow.
- store interactive materials for students in an easily
accessible folder on the school network or VLE
- check that the network can support multiple simultaneous access
to interactive materials with substantial multimedia content
- if using digital photographs, save the image files at low
quality in order to reduce file size. An alternative approach
is to set digital cameras to a low resolution
- if using sound recordings, save them as mp3 files. This reduces
their size considerably.
- reduce the workload. Check on the Internet for free interactive
resources. Many school create interactive materials with a range of
authoring software and make the resource available for general use
from their website. For more details see the resources section.