The plan: Initial DTA content on the web here.
Can be used from here
or copied for use elsewhere.
Updated 10/25/2019
Preliminary plan for Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) content pages to support development. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
The Empty Classroom
Learning online
- Uses: By DTA and solo
- Design: template and style
What is a DTA content page?
- DTA content pages are offered for instruction on using virtual worlds for education.
- The page is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
- That means anyone can use it as is or modified with or without credit to the source.
- Digicoach might send people to this page with specific search terms.
- Educators might put this page on their own site and send students there.
- Educators might use this text in their own version of Digicoach.
- Viewer developers might use these pages in the Help system
- These content pages will be revised as needed or as improvements are identified.
- The pages are designed to maximize ease of search and minimize text.
- The user is expected have an active viewer screen while reading the instructions
- The user is expected to follow each step after reading the instructions.
- Published DTA content pages are cited here:
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Why on the web?
- Easily available to everyone.
- Easily revised or copied
- Directly usable as is
- Easily given to students via web link
- Uses hypertext to provide optional background links
Uses
DTA development and use
- Easiest: DTA opens browser page and says: "Search for [THIS]."
- THIS is replaced by an appropriate search term.
- (Each page is headed by search terms and search-on-page instructions.
- Fancier: Items are copied into DTA control and DTA delivers them directly.
Other uses
- Give newcomers links to the pages for them to use as needed.
- Copy/paste relevant sections when newcomers ask questions
Design (template and style)
Organized for search (template)
- Relevant search terms are given at the beginning of each page
- Short sections match the search term with titles including search term
Organized by user need
- To fit with JIT learning, each subsection is about something the user needs to do.
- The text is as short as possible and sticks to the required actions.
- Amplification may be added at the end of the instructions.
- The text covers everything a prepared person needs to know to do the task.
- A prepared person is one who has the prerequisites for the unit,
- Subsections carry all the information needed for using them.
Style designed for quick reading
- Use short, simple sentences.
- Use short words where possible.
- Avoid saying anything not needed for how to instructions.
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