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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I would love to see more discussion
about design of content, what makes good interactivity and all that stuff –
there’s too much terrible elearning out there, and it’s not to do
with the coding. Good design and a bit of coding makes much better content than
lots of coding a bit of design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You can do quite a bit without
writing a lot of code, particularly around presenting media: text, sound, video
and graphics, and create some simple interactivity. If you work through the
getting started guide, I think you’ll see what can be done without a lot
of code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Once you do start writing code,
Xerte can do an awful lot for you. The icons hide an awful lot of complexity
that would otherwise be time-consuming to create, and so development can be
very fast, compared to creating the equivalent content off the bat in Flash.
Coding isn’t so hard – and when you master it, you can do anything
you want.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John
Doubleday<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] non coders?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-AU>Hi Everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-AU>While watching
this list I notice most of the communication is about coding issues. Are their
many no coders here. And is it realistic to be a non coder and use
Xerte?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-AU>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-AU>John D<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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