Exploring H5P branching activities

A response to the Going Interactive With H5P Activity
created by Elan Paulson (@Elan Paulson)

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It’s too early for me to be designing H5P objects for my upcoming course workshops next year, so right now I am just experimenting and exploring with the tools that seem the most useful for my practice.

I decided to look at the beta tool, branching scenarios, which seems like a very useful tool for providing interactive activities that give immediate, self-directed feedback. I am distanced from my young niece (who is 7), so I created two interactive stories from her. She requested a story about wolves, horses, and mac and cheese.

I find that I can focus better on learning the tools themselves if I am NOT working with academic content. Once I learn how the tools function, and what’s possible/not possible, I would map the activities to the learning outcomes more carefully. Because this is the “experimenter” module, I thought it would be okay for me to send something fun rather than something directly course-related.

It is still in its beta format, and indeed I found there was one or two glitches that wouldn’t allow me to connect items in a sequence. Luckily, we have eCampusOntario very happy to provide technical support and feedback.

I have to think more about whether to use it as a teaching tool for other content, or whether it should be modeled uses as a multimodal teaching tool. Perhaps both. But my job is not to teach them the tools, so perhaps I might structure at least one of the workshops based loosely on the experimenter module itself. Something to think about.

Here is another activity, my first, for escaping a room (with cats!): https://h5pstudio.ecampusontario.ca/content/13323 

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