[Xerte-dev] Re: H5p Integration

Thu May 28 10:44:14 BST 2015

Smith, Bradley schreef op 27-5-2015 om 21:25:
> Also on the subject of potential hackathon projects, a while back I 
> mentioned a set of really nice-looking content types 
> <http://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications> provided by a project 
> called H5P. There is some overlap with Xerte content types, but even 
> then I think there are some great design choices in the H5P versions 
> that would benefit Xerte. Or, to put it more plainly, the H5P 
> activities can be friendlier and prettier looking, and one of the orgs 
> I work with decided to go with H5P over Xerte for that reason. The 
> advantage that Xerte has is that it is its own hosting platform, 
> whereas H5P has to be hosted in Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress. However, 
> H5P designed it with adoption on other platforms in mind, and there’s 
> a PHP interface <http://h5p.org/developers#new-plugin> that anything 
> can implement to integrate with it as a host.
>
> I haven’t dug into this too deeply yet, but if Xerte could host H5P 
> content types in addition to its own, it would both expand the kind of 
> content that XOTs can display, and make it easier to deploy for people 
> using H5P (btw, I’m hoping to have some Xerte deployment automation to 
> show off as part of my presentation on Ansible at the conference!), 
> who would then also have access to Xerte content types. Does this 
> catch anyone else’s interest?

Most definitely!
>
> —Brad
>
> P.S. Another thing I’d love to start talking about at the hackathon: 
> xAPI support. This is very relevant to the stuff I’ll be presenting on 
> for my “federated learning experiences” presentation, by the way 
> (/plug). ;)
I've got some ideas there as well, so please let's discuss.

I implemented the current SCORM support, with in the back of my mind, 
supporting xAPI as well. I am looking at CMI-5 now, because it would 
solve some issues I am struggling with with respect to authentication.

>
>
>> On May 27, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk 
>> <mailto:J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> If you want to fork a copy of xot and start building it Brad and send 
>> me a reminder then i'll be happy to help... unfortunately I wont be 
>> in Baltimore though!!
>>
>> John Smith
>> Learning Technologist | School of Health & Life Sciences
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>> Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk 
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>> Sent: 27 May 2015 15:33
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: An idea about timings in media lessons
>>
>> That's a good idea: you're right, the timings are just timings, so 
>> adding an intro will put everything out. It doesn't sound very 
>> difficult to implement, do you fancy having a go at it?
>>
>> See you in Baltimore!
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>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, 
>> Bradley
>> Sent: 27 May 2015 15:27
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] An idea about timings in media lessons
>>
>> (…and several other things, I guess.)
>>
>> I’ve been playing around with the Media Lesson component and my head 
>> is abuzz with ideas I’m looking forward to trying. One thing has 
>> occurred to me, though: it looks like every event that you want to 
>> play during the video takes a fixed synch point, and thus the order 
>> in which the events appear in the editor has no bearing on when they 
>> actually show up.
>>
>> Consider: Suppose I make a change to a video that adds a 15 second 
>> clip starting 150 seconds in. Based on my limited experimentation so 
>> far, all of my events with synch points >= 150 are now off by 15 
>> seconds, right?
>>
>> What if we supported synch points specified in either of two formats: 
>> “X”, meaning “X seconds into the video”, or  “+X”, meaning “X seconds 
>> after the previous synch point”? This way if all of my synch points 
>> use the latter format I only need up update the one immediately after 
>> new clip in my video.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> —Brad
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