Look
and See
Catch-22
Ver
16/8
...screenshots...
(Sorry
about the quality, but I had to compress the screenshots to fit onto
our website,
still you should be able to get a good sense of the 'look-and-feel'
of the program).
1. Start the Catch-22 running. Then, look for the menu item that will enable you to load the electronic manual. Then, either print the manual, or alt-tab between the manual and the program, as you learn to use it.
2. Look in the top left of the window and you will see menu items. Use the File Menu to access one of the two demonstration files. Here, you see the file for AIDS Education, authored several years ago as part of a project sponsored by Kingston College of Further Education.
3. In each file, you are shown a dilemma. Take for example, the following dilemma, regarding whether a counsellor should persuade a client to take an HIV test, or simply provide impartial advice...
4. Having read an overview of the scenario in which you have been placed, you are provided with up to three creative thinking exercises to prompt you to reflect on your thoughts relating to the controversy.
5. Finally, you are asked some questions, in a multi-choice format. The idea of the questions is to force a decision, because in real life there are many instances in which professionals have to face tough choices in the face of no-win (i.e. Catch-22) scenarios.
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Note 1: The idea is to work through the file, preferably in a group setting, letting the dilemmas and the exercises become a focus for vigorous discussion.
Note 2: Each template allows you to edit up to twenty issues and scenarios in a each file.
Note 3: At the end of a session, a teacher can save the answers to both exercises and multi-choice questions in a text file.
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6. To make a file, ask for a New File from under the File Menu. You should see a screen like the one below...
7. Work through the template file and add text and pictures as you want. Notice how, in Edit Mode, you have some simple formatting options available to you. The emphasis here is on simplicity, rather than an overabundance of functions that are never used.
(i) ...add dilemmas...
(ii)...add exercises...
(ii)...add multi-choice questions...
Each Catch-22 file begins life as a template containing twenty blank scenarios. If you leave a field or page unedited, (in general) that field or page simply disappears from view when you turn the file from edit mode into reader mode, so that your students and trainees can use it...
...The aim of Catch-22 being to provide you with a tool that focuses your attention on the complexities of the subject being discussed, rather than the complexities of which buttons or formatting options available on the design interface.
So.
If you value simplicity.
... Enjoy.