Instructional design/Ed Podcasts/Assessment

Assessment
The following short assessment will enable you to self-assess your understanding, and ability to apply the key ideas and guidelines that were discussed throughout this self-study Wikiversity lesson. Considering this tutorial’s key objective - to equip you with the ability to identify all key elements for authoring a well-written audio script - your aim should be to score no less than a 9/10 on this brief self-assessment!

{What are the two key attributes that differentiate a general podcast from an educational podcast? - Purpose and Content - Organization and Structure + Purpose and Target Audience - Objectives and Structure
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{Which three elements are considered to be particularly important in educational podcasting? + Objectives, organization, and practice - Presentation, practice and feedback - Stimulus, reinforcement and repetition - Activation, application and evaluation
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{What is an instructionally effective (useful) manner to brand your educational podcasts? - Consistently use the same segway music and sound effects + Offer listeners a predictable and systematic structure and style - Educational podcasts do not need to and should not be branded - Find a unique style, any style, and stick to it in all your podcasts
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{Every educational podcast must start with: - A branding jingle + Clear objectives - A clear task/problem - A detailed introduction
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{The ‘call for action’ is educational podcasts way of confirming listening and understanding by the learners. As such its ideal place in every educational podcasts is - At the very beginning so that learners will immediately know what they are expected to do - At the very end since this is the normal place for a practice opportunity in any instruction - Any place is fine as long as it is always placed in exactly the same section of each podcast + Any place is fine but ideally we should avoid placing in the same section of each podcast
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{Which of the following options best captures all the possible benefits of a well-written audio script? - Enables a focused and polished podcast - Clarity, organization and audience rapport - Saves time in the recording-editing stage + Effectiveness, efficiency and appeal
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{You try reading your audio script out loud and notice that you need to stop for air midway through many of your sentences. What could be the problem? - Inadequate/insufficient use of punctuation + These sentences are probably too long - The formatting of your script is unclear - You are nervous and need more practice
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{Which of the following scenarios is most suitable for assessing and enhancing the ‘spontaneity and friendliness’ of your audio scripts? - Unfortunately, these are intuitive elements and simply cannot be assessed or enhanced - You avoid reading your script as much as possible so that it will not sound too rehearsed + You imagine yourself sitting in a pizzeria and telling it to a group of colleagues or friends - You mentally prepare yourself for improvising whenever possible when its time to record it
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{Below are two versions of the same sentence. Which principle of effective script writing was violated by the first sentence?

Sentence 1: In light of the fact that we have doubts about this answer, it is obvious that at this point in time we must give consideration to other alternatives.

Sentence 2: Since we doubt this answer, obviously, we must now consider other alternatives.

+ Structure - Content - Audience Rapport - Systematic Organization
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{Which of the following script excerpts may trip you up when you try reading it out loud? - This will cost the Federal Government about 13-million dollars a year - 15 people have tried solving the problem but only five succeeded + These results were simply unexpected and marked a 149.3% increase - On July 5 of last year we saw a substantial decrease in US imports
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Next Step
Congratulations. You have completed all the primary sections within this tutorial! Let’s now briefly review and summarize the key ideas that were discussed and practiced within this training.

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