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Can you somehow hang it on there as a tooltip?<br><br>It'll turn it into a game. "Hey mate, take a look at this, any ideas?"<br>Then they get to sound out the phonetics until they get it, then they have to type it in, thereby setting it in stone in their minds forever.<br>My theory, <span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"><em></em> which belongs to me, is mine.<br></span></span><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints<br>Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:08:58 +0000<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I was updating the text in the field with the hint.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">How would I do that this way?</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I could wait foir the field to get focus again and then hide the
text…?</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 23, 2009 4:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Wheel
of Fortune style.<br>
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1 hint:<br>
b__ll_h_t<br>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:58:35 +0000<br>
> From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>
> To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
> Subject: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints<br>
> <br>
> I've got an interaction with a passage of text, and several words<br>
> blanked out to make a fill in the blank exercise.<br>
> <br>
> How would you best use a hint to keep the learner on track?<br>
> <br>
> Right now I am checking over the current answer, counting how many<br>
> correct characters there are, and then adding the next one.<br>
> <br>
> Trouble is you can just keep banging the 'hint' button and you get shown<br>
> the answer eventually, and that's what people willdo: they need to work<br>
> out the answer for themselves, but get some help...<br>
> <br>
> Any bright ideas? <br>
> <br>
> Can limit the number of hints per field?<br>
> Limit to the first n characters (maybe word.length / 2);<br>
> Allow only so may hints for the whole interaction?<br>
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