Forum Getting Started: Re: Re: Re: HOW TO: 5 different "characters" in a "play"

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Barry,

My apologize on the delay, just got back from holidays yesterday.

Indeed, Branching is a bit of a pandora box as it will open a millons of ways to do teaching.

Regarding the example that you are presenting, say wyou have 30 students and you want to group them in 6 groups of 5 students each to perform a particular sequence.

This sequence has a number of activities in which each individual within the group would play a certain role in determined activities in the sequence.

If I need to do this in LAMS 2.0 as it is today (without the cool branching bits) then, I probably would go to "Add Lesson", select the sequence, and then when the list of students appears, I would only select the 5 students in Group1. Then start the sequence.

I would do this another five times as per all the other groups of five students each.

So effectively, you are doing the groupings "manually".

Now, you have 6 separate sequences all with each five students.

I'm assuming the sequence has a noticeboard that explain each role. Now, since in Monitor you can edit the content of a noticeboard before the student have access it, you can customize the content of this noticeboard to suit the group.

So say the original noticeboard description said:

"

Student 1: you are playing Jack Nicholson in The Shining

Student 2: you are playing Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange

Student 3: you are playing HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey

..."

You can modify it so where it says "Student 1" you can put the name of the particular student that has to play that role "Benito" for instance.

In this way you *all* your students have their roles assigned before they get to the sequence.

I know this would require a bit more work. But until we are done with branching, this is probably a workaround.

Does this help at all?

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione