<html><head><base href="x-msg://142/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Hi all, just running of to class but think this is a good and necessary discussion and will have something to say later.<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div>
<br><div><div>On 18 Feb 2010, at 09:16, Julian Tenney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">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></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">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></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">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></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>John Doubleday<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:46 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Xerte] non coders?<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-AU">Hi Everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><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></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-AU">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-AU">John D<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Xerte mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>