Best Practise: Designing a topic from scratch using question

This tutorial will cover how to design a topic from scratch using Mediabird. Even though the technical steps introduce Mediabird, it is not required to use that system to follow the idea of this tutorial.

The idea of this approach is to collect a number of questions, answer them and create flash cards out of the questions that allow to practise the content.

Creating the questions

• Open the "Import and split document" panel
• Click on "Paste from clipboard"
• Enter the last question that belongs to the topic you want to cover
• Enter questions which are necessary to be answered prior to answering the last question and work this way until you have enough questions to cover the whole topic
• State the prerequisites that are necessary to answer the first questions

Structuring the topic

• Click on "Finish pasting"
• Decide which questions are to be on a separate content card and which should go together
• Click on each question which you want to have on a separate content card
• Advanced questions such as more complicated stuff or off-topic ideas should go into the advanced category
• Illustrative questions such as examples or detailed explanations should go into the illustrative category
• Re-arrange the questions if necessary
• Specify a topic and category using the text fields at the bottom
• Click on "Import"

Entering the answers

• Load the topic into the card editor
• For each question, enter the answer below the question
• To make the topic easier revisable, select each answer one after the other and use "Question about selection" from the "+"-menu. Enter or paste the question into the question field and click "OK"
• You can optionally remove the question from the content part since you have inserted it as a separate question marker onto the marker bar

Memorizing the important facts of the topic

• Go back to the main view
• Click on the topic you have just created and select "Train this topic"

For those who are interested in trying out Mediabird, use http://www.mediabird.net/mediabird/start

Fabian Gebert

2008/09/04 11:21

Technology