So I spent most of the week sick, lying in bed, vaguely wishing I would slip into a medically-induced coma (can you tell I'm an awful patient?) This means that I missed a class, and that kind f put me behind a bit.
Tuesday in class we started ActiveInspire, and I found it really interesting. I had no real contact with ActiveInspire before, but I really enjoyed learning about it. I do have a lot of experience with powerpoint, which was helpful because the two programs are similar in nature. I had tried to do things like this using powerpoint. For example, I would try to create filled text boxes and "wipe away" the fill. This was not a horrible way to go about this, but it is also not perfect. Magic revealer is much, much easier. I also tried to do something like pull tabs. Since powerpoint in presenter mode is difficult at best and horrible frustrating at worst .
However, I so far have really enjoyed toying around with ActiveInspire. I found it to be quite interesting and surprisingly easy to use once I got the hang of it. I cannot see myself assigning ActiveInspire activity to my students, because 1) it does take some toying around with because it is a new software, and 2) It would take a long time to get anything done. I can, though, see using it as a study aid. Students would "play" the various games to study better. I might even be able to put it up on the class website and use it as homework.
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