Manifold for Teaching: Some Experiments in Forms

Welcome to my brief introduction to some neat things you can do with Manifold! I'm writing this document in Markdown, a fairly lightweight plaintext markup language that lets me add quick, basic structure to my introduction. Matt Cone's Markdown Guide provides more in-depth explanations, but for now I'm only using the single # [with text after it] to indicate a top level H1 heading (the title of my document) and maybe a couple ## [with text after them] H2 headers to show some subsections. I'm using Markdown today not only because it can be ingested by Manifold as a single document but because the Markdown also lets me embed iframes! I'm testing how these objects look within the reader. I'll also add these objects as resources in Manifold to see the difference.

StoryMaps

I'm interested to see what happens when I use a Knight Lab StoryMaps embed code. So I quickly made a brief description of the three partners collaborating on the development of Manifold: The CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding.

I have consulted the Manifold Documentation obsessively as I have put together just about any project on Manifold. I think it's helpful to revisit not only the correct way to type important headings as I prepare texts, but also the many options for reviewing these things after they're ingested. Manifold functionality is only growing stronger with each new release.

Podcasts

Here's a podcast from The State of Digital Publishing: The State of Higher Education Publishing with David Harris of OpenStax.

The embed code came up as an option when I clicked on the share arrow icon in the righthand corner of the podcast graphic.

Quizzes

I wanted to see what a quiz constructed on H5P looks like in a Manifold text. Here goes! I made this quiz using a trial H5P account.

I have never used H5P before, but looking at this, I can already tell that I would need to simplify my quiz a lot.

I cut it into two.

Of the many quizzes you can construct with H5P, match the words seemed like a useful test for picking out keywords. You can also create multiple choice quizzes and flashcards, among others.

More Media

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