Tutorial: Automated Visual Cue Advancement
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Visual Cues are the visual prompts that appear on screen to provide immediate guidance to students as they learn the proper start and stop points, and stroke sequences for each letter.
- Intuitive Animated Pair Themes: PointScribe's animated pair themes provide visual cues on where to begin and end each stroke and which direction to move in. Ball to glove; mouse to cheese, car to finish flag, etc.. Each pair has an intuitive relationship that conveys stroke direction.
- Crumb Trail: a series of "crumbs" identifies the stroke and stroke sequence; crumbs are consumed as each is passed along the way to completing the stroke.
- Chase Diamond: a green diamond leads the student along the crumb trail from beginning to end of each stroke.
- Centerline: a line marking the the absolute center of each stroke.
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You can select Visual Cue settings in two places:
In the Lesson Editor screen to save as part of a lesson or use on the fly.
- (A) Select the level of Visual Cue, Automated Cues or No Cues from the Visual Cue drop down menu in the Tutor Options area in the lower left of the Lesson Editor Screen.
In the Manage Student Preferences Window.
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There are there levels of Visual Cues.
- Visual Cue Level -- Beginner
(Shape Levels 1 through 3)
Provides animated visual cues for:
- Start and stop points for each stroke of a shape. (Intuitive Animated Pairs)
- Directionality of each stroke. (Chase Diamond)
- Stroke sequence (for multiple stroke shapes). (Crumb Trail)
Example:
- At the Beginner Level, the student is provided with all of the visual information needed to properly write the first stroke of the uppercase "M."
- PointScribe visually informs the student where to start and end the first stroke of the "M":
- the student drags the baseball to the glove
- the green diamond guides the student along the crumb trail in the correct direction.
- Visual Cue Level -- Intermediate
(Shape Levels 4 through 7)
Provides visual cue for:
- Stroke sequence (for multiple stroke shapes). (Crumb Trail)
Example:
- At the Intermediate Level, the student is provided with a visual cue (Crumb Trail) identifying the first stroke in the letter.
- Start positions, stop positions, and directionality cues presented in the Beginner Level have been removed.
- PointScribe requires the student to build on what he has learned by recalling where to begin and end each stroke and in which direction to write.
- Visual Cue Level -- Advanced
(Shape Levels 8 through 10)
Provides no visual cues.
- All visual cues have been removed.
Example:
- At the Advanced Level, the student uses all he has learned in previous levels write the shape correctly: stroke sequence, start and stop position, and directionality of each stroke.
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