This workshop will focus exclusively on Authorware's Interaction and Decision icon. Skills and techniques related to the range of interactions resulting from the use of these icons will be presented. Here are some of the techniques I plan on showing: 1) how to build a Q&A using just one interaction icon that presented an unlimited number of questions by reading data from a text file saved to the disk; 3) how to build your own model railroad program; and (if there's time) 3) a caricature of a typical CAI program, called "A Tale of 2 Coaches", in which the program branches to different instructional sections depending on the performance of the user.
All these techniques require a good understanding of fundamental programming ideas, especially the manipulation of variables. This is NOT an introductory workshop -- the explanations will be at the intermediate to advanced levels.
This workshop assumes you have already been working with Authorware and finished with Lloyd Rieber's book Getting Interactive with Authorware: Building Simulations and Games. A significant amount of the workshop will require that you have a good grasp of variables and functions.
The following resources will be used:
Makng Questions from a Text File
Tom's Train
A Tale of 2 Coaches
These resources can be accessed from the following location:
Studio Workspace/1Studio Misc./Authorware Workshop Resources/Authorware Demos/Advanced Demos
Workshop Resources -- to be used during the workshop and zipped for your downloading convenience.
Do not register for this workshop until you are sure you will attend. The only way to cancel your registration after it is submitted is to contact Lloyd Rieber at lrieber@coe.uga.edu.