WYNN 7.0 User Guide - Freedom Scientific

Book 11: Notecards
Notecards allow students to organize their research and thoughts. In WYNN, a
student can document this information in a notecard (WNC) file. Notecards are
independent files that can be either used on their own or associated with a PAL
document. Notecards are not imbedded in a PAL document, but a notecard file
that is opened in a PAL document will use the same file name as the PAL file.
A notecard file consists of five separate decks that are color coded (or symbolcoded,
if a teacher has set up a PAL document to use symbols instead of
highlights for those students who are color blind) to help students keep their
research and work organized. A teacher may assign notecard titles in the PAL
Rework step. In this same step, a teacher can also lock titles so that students
cannot edit titles, and also control whether or not a student can cut, copy, or
paste text from their documents into notecards. The latter forces students to
convey information using their own words. The colors or symbols associated
with each deck are based on the configuration settings in the Examine step.
A student automatically creates a notecard file when he or she clicks Explain in
the left panel of a PAL document. The attributes, such as titles, colors or
symbols, and position of the notecard decks that a student sees, are based on
how the teacher configured notecards when creating the PAL document. A
student must assign one or more Notecards to each of the predefined
questions.
When a notecard is initially created, it displays in the Notecard pane across the
bottom of the screen with its file name in the top left corner of the pane. If the
notecard file is associated with a PAL document, the file takes on the same
name as the PAL document. If a notecard file is created outside of PAL
document, the initial file name format is Untitled.wnc.
Notecards are also a general purpose utility that can be used outside of the
PAL process. The Notecard button, outside of PAL, is found in the pink Study
Tools toolbar. This allows the feature to be used by any WYNN user in the
same manner that physical notecards would be used.
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