To provide you with instruction on how to create a presentation using Macromedia RoboDemo 5, we have to rely for now directly on Macromedia's online product demonstrations and tutorials since we do not as yet have a course template designed for it. 

Basically, it's the same kind of thing that is done with Microsoft Producer in the sense that the developer creates a PowerPoint slideshow (or a series of html pages) and syncs the materials with audio or video.  The difference is that the Flash file created is more versatile than the Producer files in both posting and playing.  The Flash file, for instance, can be made to stop in the middle of a presentation so that a viewer can click on a link.  The developer of a Producer file has the opportunity to suggest that the presentation be stopped so that the viewer can click a link but has no way of structuring the presentation to ensure that the viewer do so.  The advantage to stopping the viewer, of course, lies only in the ability to provide him or her with a project-based activity.

The activity can really be the focus of the RoboDemo presentation when it is designed first and is based on the learning objective.  A presentation on the idea of constructivist teaching methodologies, for instance, would focus on the different manifestations of constructivism and the way in which it might be articulated in the classroom.  It would have a couple of different levels of engagement to it and end with focused opportunities for further involvement on the part of the learner.  The important thing to remember is that constructivism is a kind of pedagogy, which means that it's a teaching theory rather than a learning theory.  For learning theory, we have to consult Malcolm Knowles's understanding of andragogy, which is what speaks to the idea of needs-based, contextualized, on-demand, just-in-time learning.  So, our example on constructivism is aimed at the learning styles of teachers to facilitate their direct instruction in the classroom.

For a host of materials on ways in which activities can be created, visit our resources site created for the Theology and Pedagogy in Cyberspace online conference in March and April of 2004.

When you're done looking through that, click the final link on the left entitled "Develop an interactive audio/video database."