Evaluation concluded!

     

    I thought about what he enjoys and where there could be room for improvement, so I decided to do a maths game using publisher. I thought his times table could be a good one to practice so I set out making a game using the 9 times table.  He would have to count objects to find the right answer and then drag the right number to the right answer! This again seemed a bit boring! Suddenly I had a brain wave! The one thing that the child most struggles with and needs the most support with is not an academic issue. It’s a social issue.    

   
 I decided to set out a series of questions for example ‘if someone laughs at you what do you do?’ And then give him 4 answers. Each of them he could choose quite easily but there is always one answer that is the desirable one, basically what he should do for his own happiness! I thought of doing this on publisher using pictures that can be dragged to a square but using hyperlinks from the picture to an answer. It would be visual enough for him and technical enough as he is excellent with the computer. I had it all set out and went about finding the pictures and applying the design and so on. However I didn’t like how it looked. I felt it looked basic and not very professional due to the delay when hyper linking. I decided power point would look nicer and run smoother, which it did. It hyperlinked really well and I thought it looked really professional. It took me a few hours to make both sections of the game and I was really pleased. Unfortunately while checking it I realised you can only hyperlink when the presentation is running, but you can’t move objects when the presentation is running. It was very inconvenient and annoying that I didn’t realise this before hand, however, I pushed on and set about copying and pasting over to publisher. This took a very long time and I kept incurring problems all the way through. 

  One of the main problems was that all of the answers were in a power point document which I assumed would still work for hyper linking, however this was not the case.  The folder would open up but go straight to an icon at the bottom of the screen, which wouldn’t have been suitable. Unfortunately I’m not technically minded enough to have worked out why this was happening. In response to this I decided to copy and paste it all in to publisher! When I had done this I found it awfully long winded that every time I hyperlinked id have to click on ‘yes’ then ‘ok’ before it would open up. This was due to security reasons. I thought there s no way the child I work with is going to put up with this. So I decided, for it to work and look its best I’ll copy and paste all the answer in to the same document so that the hyper linking ran smoothly. Thankfully it worked perfectly.