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This section of the tutorial tells you how to get the "class lectures." For this online course, these lectures consist of illustrated web text and optional interactive Authorware presentations. (We will explain Authorware in a moment.)

Classroom. When this class is taught in a classroom, the instructor shows the Authorware visual presentations on a big screen at the front of the room. The instructor lectures about the Authorware visuals while the students take notes.

Online. In this online course we will simulate all parts of that process. You will have access to the transcripts of the instructor's classroom lectures in the form of illustrated web text as well as links to the Optional Online Authorware Shockwave Presentations. And in the next section you will be shown how to get an organized guide for taking notes (see "Making Notes" in the next section of this tutorial).

The illustrated web text is like a textbook, only better. You can read the text online or print it out like a book. It is free to you as a student; your only costs are printing costs. Print as much or as little as you like.

The course content is broken up into a series of topics called "lectures" with titles like "Basic Probability" or "Central Tendency." Each online "lecture" is a transcript of a tape recording of the corresponding lecture given in Psych 3000 when it is taught in a classroom.

 

Web Text. All the course content, topic by topic, is available as a multimedia web text which you may print out or read off the web. The web text for each topic contains all the material you need to learn for that topic. Just think of it as a fancy chapter of a text book. It is vital that you read it.

The image to the right shows the very beginning of the Basic Probability web text.
  Contained in the web text are images and text put together in way that teaches an excellent cognitive strategy for learning the material. These images and more are also found in the Authorware presentation.

 

Authorware(Optional*) is accessable from the top of the web text, or from the resources section of the course. The Authorware program is carefully coordinated with the web text. The two work together.

The example graphic shows the Authorware program after its window has downloaded. The Authorware window will partially cover the web text, as is shown in the graphic. You can move the web text and Auhorware windows around so that an edge of each sticks out from the other. That makes it easy to go back and forth between them.

 


*Authorware is a fancy presentation software which allows a lot of interactivity and animation. You are not required to go through the Authorware presentations because all the important visual images that are in Authorware have been put into the online lecture text. It is available to you as an optional resource for learning.

Each Authorware slide has a set of interactive controls (circled in red) on the image to the right. These controls allow you to navigate around the content non-linearly according to your own style. When you get to using Authorware there is an Authorware Navigation Tutorial available. Best to read it when you are using Authorware, not at this time.
 
All the different topics and lectures are available from your Desk, from Ducks in a Row, or from a Menu. Later in this tutorial, we will tell you how to access the list of topics from the "desk," duck," and "Menu" interfaces. By the end of class you will have gone through all of the lectures.

*click on the images below to magnify them.

 
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