Intan et. al (2008) believed that every human
being has at least one intelligent, and some of them can even possess to a maximum
of eight intelligences. MI Educational Courseware was developed based on the
theory of MI in education by Howard Gardner for Smart School in Malaysia. This
courseware provides a comprehensive and interactive notes, exercises, tutorials
and quizzes that equipped with animated graphics and games which can excite and
entertain students and improve the information transformation from short term
memory into long-term memory.
Example of game style learning,
learning through drawing, and click and drag exercises
The novelty of the courseware is
that the system can easily be customized, maintained and updated. As an
independent system, the courseware allows students to navigate through system
to a specific part of their interest. The courseware is focus on Chemistry
Subject (consists for 4 subtopic) at Sekolah Menengah Tengku Menteri Changkat
Jering Taiping, one of the smart schools in Malaysia.
The strengths of this courseware
is before entering the system, students have to logon with their names and
personal password. This system will find student’s name in file user.txt
located in the project folder. If the student finds the user name in that specific
files and that particular password is match, the system will brings him to the
main menu. Teachers also have their own password that contains sensitive
information such as student’s marks. Teachers can edit and delete students
answer scripts from this site.
Another strengths of this courseware, teacher can update the content
without having to edit any Authorware files because the notes were built in
HTML format. They can edit and update these files using any HTML editor or web
editor or even Ms. Word. However, they have to save with the same file name
because Authorware package pieces will find file with the same name.
