[Xerte-dev] Re: FW: [Xerte] Prototype for new Media Lesson template - feedback and ideas needed!

[Ron Mitchell]

I think Apple employees have been sacked in the past for accidentally
released glimpses of hot new features! ;-)

Looks great Fay and I can see people getting very excited about the
possibilities.

On IE 10 on my laptop the map data doesn't show (content of the right panel)
but does in Chrome and Firefox. 
Haven't tested on iPad yet but on my iPhone when you click to play the video
it loads full screen so covers the other panels.

Re the Into text I wonder if that should appear open by defaul and then
close when the content is played or when the user manually closes it.

Great stuff!
Ron

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
Sent: 29 August 2014 14:00
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] FW: [Xerte] Prototype for new Media Lesson template -
feedback and ideas needed!

Hopefully to the right list this time...
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
[Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 29 August 2014 13:53
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Prototype for new Media Lesson template - feedback and
ideas needed!

I've been working on a new template that Julian has previously mentioned
here. The idea behind it was to allow the creation of projects where content
appears synched with a piece of media and for it to be far more customisable
(different types of content to appear/layout of the page) than the current
synched video and audio slideshow pages.

There are two examples below for you to try:

http://ltdev.nottingham.ac.uk/FC/index.html - synched to a variety of
content types (text, jmol, slideshow, flickr etc.)
http://ltdev.nottingham.ac.uk/FC/index_map.html - synched to d3 map data
(not working on iPad yet)

It's kind of a mishmash of a few ideas for it so obviously isn't finished.
Some of the things I know I still need to do:


*         XWD side of things hasn't been looked at yet so all the content's
fixed. I would have thought you would add a number of content panels to the
page and then select the type of content to appear on the panel and set it's
synch point. There would be the option to pause at synch points so students
can explore the content in the panels before continuing.

*         Design - It's currently based on the appearance of the normal
template but is this the way to go? I need to look at the flow of it on
different window sizes/devices

*         I quite like having the option to have some fixed text
(introduction) for the page but I'm not sure it's done in the best way in
the examples above.

*         Synch to videos from YouTube etc. as well as those you upload to
the project yourself.

*         Synch to audio file instead of video too.

Any feedback?

What options for content to add to the panels would you like to see?
So far I was thinking of text/highlighted transcript/subtitles, slideshow,
jmol, xot project, mcq/buttons, graphs/chart/maps. There are a few
Popcorn.js plugins already for things like Wikipedia, Flickr, RSS feeds etc.
and I've made a few new ones which are in the examples above.

We thought it would, at least initially, be a standalone template - not a
page in the main xot template. Thoughts on this? I'll add a way to strip the
header/borders off it so it could be cleanly embedded in a regular xot
project.

Thanks
Fay

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