[Xerte] Re: Creating Animation

[Pat L (pgogy)]

going to start a post on xerte-dev


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> We did think about making an animation template, so you can add graphics
> to the stage and then animate them Authorware style using commands in
> icons: move, erase, animate, etc. It wouldn't be too hard to develop if
> anyone wants to have a crack at it,
>
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of KnowledgeWare
> Sent: 22 July 2014 19:07
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
>
> I'm trying to add some of these simple animations now to an LO. Fireworks
> does animated gif's but I find it difficult to use/decipher. Authorware's
> ability to move objects on a path at a set time was very useful for this
> type of thing and would be another great addition to xot.
>
> RonM2
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 2:21 AM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
>
> I've often thought that we could use a page type that allows you to then
> add sub elements (media) each with their own script to control or a
> predefined script (such as move to the left, etc) and possibly a timer to
> tell the page when to run the script... shouldn't be that hard to do
> something like that...
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: 04 July 2014 09:48
> To: Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
> Subject: [Xerte] Creating Animation
>
> I'm just wondering what approaches people use for this sort of thing: we
> have a lecturer who wants to create animation simply. He's currently using
> powerpoint to create this sort of thing:
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711
>
> I think the results are really good, and it's taken some time to get right.
> I'm interested in optimising the approach a bit, to make it fast and
> efficient: maybe this is the best way of doing it, maybe there are others?
>
> What I'm interested in is what approaches / tools do people use for this
> sort of thing? It doesn't have to be high end output: it could be a mixture
> of screen capture, whilst dragging things around and narrating the process
> for example. We're not looking to turn staff into Flash developers, it's
> more about simple approaches that are easy and quick to do.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julian
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