Training Modules

Level: Beginner

Duration: 18:35

This tutorial will provide an introduction to the LodeStar Program.

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• Introduction to the program interface.
• How to create a new project from the interaction templates.
• A general description of how most interactions are configured.
• An introduction to the rich text editor.
• An introduction to adding images to your project.
• An introduction to adding mp3 sound to your project.
• An introduction to adding Math symbols to your project.
• An introduction to the search options within LodeStar.
• An introduction to the preview options.
• An introduction to applying a theme for your project.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 15:12

This tutorial will provide an introduction to the LodeStar Program.

• Providing captions and sourcing for images
• Adding questions to your project.
• An explanation of the Metadata Application Profile.
• An explanation of the IMS Manifest maker.
• An explanation of Intellectual Property system.
• Instructions for exporting your project.
• Instructions for locating additional templates on Lodestar Website.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 20:02

An introduction to the following interactions will be covered in this tutorial:

• Boardmaker
• Brancher
• Challenger
• Concentration
• Crossword
• Flashcards
• Mapper
• PageTurner
• Panner

Level: Beginner

Duration:

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An introduction to the following interactions will be covered in this tutorial:

• Presenter
• Sequencer
• Sequencer as WebQuest
• SimpleAudioPlayer
• SimpleVideoPlayer
• Slideshow
• Syncher
• Timeline
• WebQuest

Level: Beginner

Duration: 09:30

BoardMaker produces an electronic display board that gives the viewer an overall view of the display as well as the ability to zoom in any of the six panels and view images, text and animations. BoardMaker provides the author with six panels with six different layouts.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 07:15

This tutorial will show you how to configure the Brancher Interaction.

• Walk through the various features of the Brancher Interaction
• Create a new project from the Syncher Template.
• Configure the media page.
• Plan the Syncher experience by identifying sound que points.
• Configure the title page.
• Add additional pages as per our plan.
• Preview our project.
• Apply different themes to the project.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 07:38

Challenger presents a fun way to pose multiple choice questions to students. The Challenger Interaction allows teachers to create questions and to choose a word (10 letters or less) that the challenger game will incrementally spell after the student successfully answers each question.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 17:39

Concentration (2.0.0.14): Allows students to match tiles and answer questions related to the tiles. Tiles associated with correctly answered questions fall away at the end of the game to reveal the underlying, mystery image. Students use the final image as a clue to answer the final question.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 12:25

Teachers can create a crossword puzzle from any group of words they wish. Teachers can type in science terms, historical facts, literary expressions or whatever they choose. If a teacher were doing a geography lesson on Quebec City, he/she might type in Plains of Abraham, together with a hint and, optionally, a link.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 11:48

The FlashCards Star Interaction® presents students with a series of cards. Students are required to answer a question or identify an image or animation by typing in text. Correctly answered FlashCards are removed from the deck; incorrectly answered cards are returned to the deck. A deck may contain one card or dozens of cards.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 23:03

• Creating a new project
• Introducing the Instructions Page
• Going to the Next Page
• Explaing the Google Maps API Key
• Creating the First Page
• Entering the title
• Adding an Image
• Getting the Latitude and Longitude from the preview
• Setting the zoom level
• Selecting an mp3 file
• Selecting a new page type
• Demonstrating the Rich Text Editor
• Getting the the Latitude and Longitude using Google
• Adding a video
• Adding a question
• Branching with Questions
• Branching with Menus
• Previewing the project

Level: Beginner

Duration: 08:01

PageMaker uses the paging metaphor (i.e. books, magazines) that users immediately recognize and understand. PageMaker is an excellent Star Interaction® for you to present text, illustrations, photos, and animations.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 11:59

This tutorial will show you how to configure the Panner Interaction.

• Show a configured example.
• Create a new project from the Panner Template.
• Configure the title page.
• An introduction to the rich text editor.
• An introduction to adding images to your project.
• An introduction to adding mp3 sound to your project.
• An introduction to adding Math symbols to your project.
• An introduction to the search options within LodeStar.
• An introduction to the preview options.
• An introduction to applying a theme for your project.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 25:35

Easily add pictures, animations, different layouts, titles, attractive text and quiz items to your presentation. Presenter can be used to configure a series of pages that are made up of text and images in any one of several layout combinations. One of the layout options includes a multiple-choice question.

Level: Beginner

Duration:

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BoardMaker produces an electronic display board that gives the viewer an overall view of the display as well as the ability to zoom in any of the six panels and view images, text and animations. BoardMaker provides the author with six panels with six different layouts.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 06:30

BoardMaker produces an electronic display board that gives the viewer an overall view of the display as well as the ability to zoom in any of the six panels and view images, text and animations. BoardMaker provides the author with six panels with six different layouts.

Level: Beginner

Duration:

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BoardMaker produces an electronic display board that gives the viewer an overall view of the display as well as the ability to zoom in any of the six panels and view images, text and animations. BoardMaker provides the author with six panels with six different layouts.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 11:32

SlideShow (Version 1.02.01) SlideShow allows a teacher to add images to a slide show. Students can forward through the slideshow one slide at a time or set the show to autoplay.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 18:21

This tutorial will show you how to configure the Syncher Interaction.

• Show a configured example.
• Create a new project from the Syncher Template.
• Configure the media page.
• Plan the Syncher experience by identifying sound que points.
• Configure the title page.
• Add additional pages as per our plan.
• Preview our project.
• Apply different themes to the project.

Level: Beginner

Duration: 15:47

Timeline allows teachers to present information to students in an interactive chronological view. Timeline enables students to scroll through time, click on key events, read descriptions and see the relationship of events graphically represented.

Level: Beginner

Duration:

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WebQuest (Version 4.2.3) allows teachers to create a graphical view of the web organized around a research topic, a problem or whatever. WebQuest enables students to move from node to node and view the critical information that the teacher wishes the student to glean from the matching site. WebQuest enables students to move from node to node laterally or move deeper into a node and view its related nodes.