TEL Course Developer's Tool Box
These resources, to help you design and develop your TEL course, assume that you have taken the required, "Designing and Developing Effective, Accessible Technology Enabled Learning" course and have been issued the Presenter plug-in for PowerPoint®. Since we only teach this course when the need arises, please notify the TEL Team if you need to take this course. Select the following link to read more about the 3.5-day, required course: DesigningTELCourse.html.
NOTE: Adobe® Presenter, v. 7, doesn't publish PowerPoint® v. 2007 files well at all. Keep your PowerPoint® file(s) in v. 2003 or compatibility mode for best results.
- Best Practices for Designing and Developing TEL
- Instructional Systems Design (ISD) is the most important aspect of an effective course, whether it be a TEL course or an Instructor-Led course.
- Other excellent ISD resources
- Writing Meaningful Learning Objectives
- List of Performance Verbs for Writing Effective Learning Objectives: Objectives.html
- Do's and Don'ts for Writing Good Assessment Questions
- How Students Learn--Bloom's Taxonomy
- Accessbility Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
- 216 web-safe color chart: http://www.techbomb.com/websafe/
- How to add ALT tags, in PowerPoint® 2007 to your graphics for accessibility:
- Select the photo/graphic by clicking once in the graphic.
- On the top right of the menu bar, a Drawing Tools tab is displayed.
- Select the Drawing Tools tab.
- To the far right of the Drawing Tools menu bar, the size of the graphic is displayed.
- Under the measurements, select the small down arrow icon to the right of the word Size.
- In the Size and Position dialog box, select the Alt Text tab.
- Your Alt Tag should briefly describe the graphic. This text should start with: "Photograph showing ..." (if it's a photo); "Illustration showing ..." (if the graphic is an illustration); "Line graph showing .... ", etc.
- Select Close when you are finished typing in your text.
- Best practices for adding video to your TEL course, using Adobe® Flash v. 8: AddVideo.html
- You can find "how-to's" for Presenter™ by visiting: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Presenter/7.0/
- In this on-line documentation you can find how-to's for:
- Inserting Flash® (swf) files to your TEL course.
- Adding assessments (quizzes) to your course.
- Adding narration to your TEL course.
- Synchronizing narration with animations.
- Please note: For adding video please see the previous bullet, "Best practices for adding video."
- To learn how to set-up synchronous live events using Adobe® Meeting visit http://www.adobe.com/resources/acrobatconnect/.
- Visit the following link to see which PowerPoint® animations do not transfer once your TEL course has been published to the server: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404325.html.
