Lab 3
This week I continued to work on the interactive ABC song. This week was really fun because we were able to add a talking avatar to the eFlashcard. It was perfect timing because we were reading the chapter in our E-Learning book which looked at research and the benefits to personalizing a e-learning tool with a avatar or agent to help guide the learner. In this instance we were actually breaking two to the conclusions of the chapter. First the agent should use a natural voice and not a computer based one and second it doesn't matter what the character looks like as long as it is animated and moves in a human like fashion. We used a human picture of a person but because they are still images they are difficult it was difficult to animate and used the computer voice provided for expediency. I love how as we are learning the theory we are learning how to incorporate the same ideas in our Captivate project.