CLIO Educator Guide

Overview

Educators create the language and select the media that go into the activities for their audience.

Drafting Activity Content

Activities are created through easily customizable activity templates, called Activity Types. You can make your own, or utilize the ones that are provided. The CLIO web application suite comes pre-installed with seventeen Activity Types that are designed specifically for use in an informal education or exhibit context. These activities are coded by developers and stored as JSON files for use, but we provide word processor templates to assist with collaboration during the development and drafting process.

Main Article: Creating a CLIO Activity

Choose an Activity Type

Activity Types range in complexity and customization options. There are simple interactive activities with very little customization, as well as more complex activities that can be extensively customized to assist in the creation of a narrative. Simple interactive games like quizzes, flashcards, and tile matching are included for younger audiences, while other activities like timelines and annotated images enable older audiences to have a more in-depth informational experience. Each activity type contains it's own guide for drafting content, which can be downloaded here.

Activity Type	Description	Template
Annotated Image	The Annotated Image activity type can provide additional context to an image through the inclusion of ‘Look Closer’ buttons. Each ‘Look Closer’ button can display open to display rich text, an image gallery, or a video.	Download the template.
Binary Quiz	The Binary Quiz activity type can be customized to prompt users to select from a binary set of choices with correct and incorrect responses.	Download the template.
Card Match	The Card Match activity type is designed to draw connections between two sets of objects, images, or ideas by trying to match cards.	Download the template.
Collection Gallery	The Collection Gallery activity type displays a list of objects, such as collections artifacts, that opens a full-screen gallery of images of that object with captions. This activity is designed to draw connections between a museum’s “home” collections and the objects on display in outreach programming.	Download the template.
Flash Cards	The Flash Cards activity type displays topic cards that can be flipped to view a brief description, or opened to look at a longer rich text description.	Download the template.
Image Comparison	The Image Comparison activity type can be used to compare, contrast or overlay one image over another, allowing a user to interactively decide how much of each image they would like to see. You can also add ‘Look Closer’ buttons to highlight specific areas of the image.	Download the template.
Image Gallery	The Image Gallery activity type is a collection of images combined into a gallery that users can look through, with brief descriptions for each image.	Download the template.
Media Dichotomous Key	The Media Dichotomous Key activity type presents a gallery of images to the user and a series of questions. Using the images, they answer to the best of their ability and, when there have been enough questions asked to reach a conclusion, they will be presented with their answer versus the correct answer based on their responses.	Download the template.
Meta	The Meta activity type will display the included Activities as scrollable list.	Download the template.
Path Finder	The Path Finder activity type is a visual activity that uses a series of multiple choice questions to chart a path from an origin to a destination. Each question’s options can have additional information that is used to provide context to the choice and help shape their answer. As the user progresses, they can view the correct answer from the previous questions to help build connections.	Download the template.
Render Object	The Render Object activity type allows the user to interact with a digital three-dimensional object.	Download the template.
Rich Text with Narration	The Rich Text with Narration activity type displays rich text with an optional voiceover.	Download the template.
Slideshow	The Slideshow activity type allows users to navigate through a slideshow, with optional “basement” slides that exist below the primary slide.	Download the template.
Tile Match	The Tile Match activity type is designed to draw connections between two sets of objects, images, or ideas. Each set contains four cards that users can try to match, with configurable correct and incorrect responses.	Download the template.
Timeline	The Timeline activity type creates an ordered timeline that users can navigate through, date by date.	Download the template.
Video Playback	The Video Playback activity type plays an MP4 video. It can be configured to disable the audio or the control bar.	Download the template.
Visual Thinking	The Visual Thinking activity type is an inquiry-based learning activity can be used to highlight a collection of images and provide prompts for users to learn more about what they find most interesting.	Download the template.

Integrating CLIO into Your Educational Content

After the activities have been drafted and coded into CLIO, they can be integrated into your educational content, both in-person and on-line.

Creating a Kiosk

You can use free and open-source software, alongside commodity or outdated hardware, to create an interactive kiosk to display within your institution. You can create your own, or recreate POP, the kiosk used during pilot testing. It was constructed using off-the-shelf open-source hardware, including the Raspberry Pi 4 computer and official Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen. The case was fabricated using entry-level 3D printer. The total per-unit build cost per kiosk is $220.

Main Article: Create a Kiosk

Embedding in Video Conference and Streaming Software

You can use Open Broadcaster Software to integrate CLIO and its activities into a video conference or live stream.

Main Article: Using CLIO in Video Conference and Streaming Software

Integrating into Pre-Recorded Videos

You can use Open Broadcaster Software to integrate CLIO and its activities into pre-recorded videos that you can share online.

Main Article: Using CLIO in Pre-Recorded Videos

Embedding into a Blogging Platform

When you host CLIO on a publicly accessible web server, it can be embedded directly into websites and blogging platforms, such as Wordpress.

Main Article: Using CLIO on a Blog

Contribute

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Main Article: Contributing to CLIO