The trainer will introduce the lesson about interactivity and tell the students what entails in the lesson, e.g. :
- What is interaction
- Interaction tools on the web and in our surrounding.e.g:
- Types and levels of interactivity.
- Examples of Interactivity
- What are the advantages of interactive media?
- What is the relevance of interactivity to Information designers?
What new skills does a designer need when producing interactive media?
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Opening: (60 mins)
- Introduction to the lesson
- Warming up
- Homework discussion
Work: (120 mins) - Trainer: what is interactivity? examples of interactivity
- Trainer: Student exercise: caseanddiner interactive website, other online interactive websites.
- Student exercise: student will be asked to find websites that they
think are more interactive and ones that they think are less interactive
Closing (60 mins) - Student: Presentation and discussion
- Trainer: closing talk, homework and evaluation
15 mins
Get ready some sheets of paper, pens or pencils for the students beforehand. While the students are still at a circle suggest their playing a very interesting and funny game. Each player writes down the list of 10 domestic animals in a column on his/her sheet of paper. Then the leader asks the first question and the players must read the answers which they wrote on their sheets of paper under the figure 1. The players read their answers in turn. Then the leader asks the 2nd question and the players must read the word which is written under the figure 2 etc.
The leader's questions may be as follows:
1. Who are you at home?
2. Who are you in private?
3. Who are you in public?
4. Who are you without clothes?
5. Who are you after dinner?
6. What do other people think of you?
7. Who are you at nights?
8. What do you think about yourself?
9. Who are you with your friends?
10. Who are you in fact?
- Prepare students for the next lesson
- Give evaluation forms and homework. (if any)
- Ask what they have learnt that they didn't know before?
- What is interactivity?· How does it help to be interactive?
- How do you interact with your neighbors, friends and family?
theres are two handouts for this lesson:
1. interactivity is..
2. examples of interactive
projects
- How do you interact with your family, neighbors and people at large?
- How would you like them to interact with you?
1. a questions and answer game for you
Youracle
2. Architecture which reacts to it's surroundings
Reacting
building
3. For many interactive projects made by students
Loop:
Journal
of interaction design
Knowledge* student knows
- what interaction is
- what is meant by interactive media
- that there are different levels of interactivity
- that there are 5 major media types on the web
- that you can turn information into an experience.
Skills* students can
- recognise and use interactive tools online
- describe interaction
Attitudes* stduents feel
- want to gain an understanding of interactivity
- to have clarity and simplicity in their work.
- Hand out
- Evaluation forms