Mobis

Mobi Lessons Learned

After our meeting last week, I took some time to see exactly what it would take to build a lesson from scratch using WorkSpaces. Several things I picked up:

• Planning ahead is invaluable and a must. Before you try anything, decide what you would like to do.
• There are two important viewing functions. First, mouse view (looks like the computer mouse in the toolbar) is like using your mouse on the computer. Second, lesson plan view is going to let you annotate on top of your screen as it appears when you click the lesson plan icon (looks like pages stacked on top of one another). I kept getting very frustrated because I was trying to click on a webpage in lesson plan view. That was an hour long mistake! 
• There is a huge difference between pages and layers. Pages are like pages in a book. You can turn the page and the previous one is no longer there. Layers can be displayed on top of one another.
• Learn to use the capture tool. This will allow you to take pictures directly from you computer screen. It adds a depth of function with the cutting out feature. Instead saving or copying a photo from the Internet, you can cut around it so any added info you don't need, you don't get.

Tomorrow we will look at these lessons and CPS, the clickers. See you then!