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**Great Action Adventure : ver. 2.0
Ordered with AUX funds
Property of CH/UH
* Includes full-motion video of verbs and sign language
* Fully-customizable play and learning areas
* Great for visual learners and distractable students
From website:
The Great Action Adventure is an interactive CD-Rom which allows students to have fun learning about verbs.
Students as young as 2 can easily play the action videos by themselves and learn the associated nouns or signs.
Older children who already know common nouns and verbs, can use a more-advanced setting to learn
appropriate verb tenses.
Because some students learn through play, and others learn better in a highly-structured setting there are two
separate areas on the CD - a play area and a structured teaching area. Both areas are fully-customizable for
each student. You have the ability to choose which words are taught, how they are presented, and how the
student is reinforced and prompted. Skills taught include receptive noun and verb matching, sign language, word
matching and verb tenses.
There are separate teacher and student areas. From the teacher area, you set up the program for individual
students and track progress. From the student area, students can choose to play or do a lesson. Students
cannot exit their area without knowing a secret key combination.
Let’s Play Area:
Here they can scroll through 140 different videos of verbs (over 70 unique verbs). Navigating is simple with the
arrow heads at the bottom of the screen or the alphabet bar at the top. You can control how many verbs are in
the play area, and whether or not the alphabet bar, related nouns and sign language buttons appear. If your
computer has a touch screen, children too young to use a mouse can simply touch a verb on the screen and
watch it come to life.
When a student clicks on a verb in the play area, a screen similar to the one below will appear. A video of the
verb will play, and the student can see related nouns or sign language.
Teach Me Area:
Silver Lining Multimedia, Inc
104 .420 SIL
The Teach Me area of The Great Action Adventure can be fun too. You choose ahead of time how the student is
reinforced and how often. Kids will love the animated reinforcers and sound effects. Of course, if these
reinforcers are too distracting, you can always select the picture or audio rewards instead. Prompts fade in or out
depending upon the student’s success rate. This helps to build the student’s confidence and reduce frustration.
There are 6 different lessons that students can take. For each of these lessons you can specify which words the
student needs to work on, whether an item is already mastered, and how the student is prompted, corrected and
rewarded. The student’s progress is tracked and new words are introduced when the student is ready.
In the receptive verbs lesson, students are given a spoken command such as "find stand", "touch stand", or
"where is stand?" Initially there will only be one picture to choose from, so the student should be able to answer
correctly. After several successes, the number of choices will increase to two. If the student begins to have
difficulty, the program will prompt the correct answer or reduce the number of choices. The number of pictures
on the screen will increase up to a number which you specify.
You have complete control over what command is given, how the student is prompted, how quickly pictures are
increased and which verbs are taught. You can also select how the student is reinforced and how often.
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