Creating Interactive Educational Activity Templates for Digital Libraries

该项目正在研究一个基于Flash的模板系统的设计、可行性和应用，该系统与数字图书馆相连接，使教师能够轻松地组装、分配和定制在线学习活动。该项目主要侧重于适合3-5年级的生命科学内容，正在开发三个基于计算机的互动环境，以反映儿童的发展成长。 使用模板格式来支持概念学习，孩子们可以从数字图书馆中查找、匹配、分类和排列媒体对象。在另一种形式中，孩子们在模型或微观世界中探索和操纵变量。第三种模板格式支持科学观察、数据收集和分析。 为了评估和确定提高小学教师和儿童数字图书馆教育效果的工具，研究小组正在构建一个小型在线数字收藏，以提供一个研究基地。 该原型还与其他NSDL收集和服务项目相联系，与其他NSDL项目的合作正在研究将基于Flash的模板系统集成到更广泛的NSDL工作中。

This project is investigating the design, feasibility, and applications of a Flash-based template system, linked to digital libraries, to enable teachers to easily assemble, assign, and customize online learning activities. Primarily focusing on life science content appropriate to Grades 3-5, the project is developing three computer-based interactive environments that reflect children's' developmental growth. Using template formats to support concept learning, children find, match, categorize, and arrange media objects from a digital library. With another format, children explore and manipulate variables within a model or micro world. A third template format supports scientific observation, data gathering, and analysis. To evaluate and identify tools that enhance the educational effectiveness of digital libraries for elementary teachers and children, the study team is constructing a small online digital collection to provide a research base. The prototype is also being linked to other NSDL collection and service projects, and collaborations with other NSDL projects are investigating the integration of a Flash-based template system into the broader NSDL effort.