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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We are hoping to start a commuity of Xerte users amongst the
CALL community(s), using Xerte Online Toolkits, with content being published to
the Xpert repository, to create a critical mass of language learning materials
with contributions from all over the world. If that sounds like a party you’d
like to join, then I can put you in touch with people here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As all of the software is open source this has real potential –
partners can take the toolkits software, install it in their own institutions,
and publish to the Xpert repository very easily from toolkits,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>J<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>A-P. Lian<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xerte] Random access to Video and audio files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'>Hi Julian<br>
<br>
Thanks for the prompt answer. I will take a look. It sounds just right.<br>
<br>
AsiaCALL is not an affiliate of EuroCALL although we are obviously related
intellectually. You can take a look at <a href="http://asiacall.org">http://asiacall.org</a>
for more information but the site is not very informative right now as I have
just recreated it following an RFI attack. I/we would welcome closer links with
the older, more established associations like EuroCALL and CALICO although I do
know some of the people involved (at least in the past - I've been around for a
while) like Graham Davies and Bernd Rüschoff - and people like Sue Otto etc at
CALICO, and Mike Levy (worldcall etc.) wrote his PhD under my supervision. We
have affiliates in Asia like IndiaCALL and IndonesiaCALL and other local
associations are forming. We are about to decide a venue for our 9th
International Conference to be held in November - probably either India or
Malaysia.<br>
<br>
If Xerte meets my needs I will certainly use it, most likely in preference to
others. I need a stable, advanced but flexible environment to work with. I do
not need an LMS as such. I imagine that it provides easy access to databases
such as mysql - which is also critical to the kind of development I have in
mind.<br>
<br>
All the very best - and let's keep in touch.<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:49,
Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Have you seen
the mediaInteractions demo we have? This template has been designed with our
language school and is specifically for designing language learning exercises: <a
href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ecczjrt/mediaInteractions" target="_blank">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/mediaInteractions</a>.
Is AsiaCall a sister to EuroCall? The EuroCall conference is here at Nottingham
next year, and we’re hoping to work with the Call community to develop some of
this work – language learning materials have a lot of potential with
multimedia.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>You can
control the playback of video by seeking to thepoint you want to play from, and
stopping playback when you reach a aprticular time / frame, yes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>A-P. Lian<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Random access to Video and audio files</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:72.0pt'>Hello everyone<br>
<br>
I have been on the listserv for a while but not very active. I am impressed by
Xerte though not at all experienced in it and would like to invest some time
developing materials on it for language learning. However, before doing so,
there is one functionality that I absolutely need. So here is my question:<br>
<br>
Is there some way to access video and audio files randomly i.e. from point A to
point B.<br>
<br>
Imagine we have a 10-minute video clip. I would like to be able to play back a
segment of that clip, say from 1.5 minutes to 1.75 minutes or from frame 500 to
frame 600 or something like that.<br>
<br>
I also want to be able to assign the values of point A and point B dynamically
(I do not want to have to pre-set start and end points).<br>
<br>
Is it possible to do that with the tools provided in Xerte? <br>
<br>
There are two advantages to this:<br>
<br>
(a) I do not have to have multiple audio/video files and<br>
(b) I do not have to pre-set the start and ending points.<br>
<br>
Thanks for any assistance<br>
Andrew<br>
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<br>
-- <br>
Professor Dr Andrew Lian<br>
Vice-President of AsiaCALL<br>
Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages<br>
Western Illinois University<br>
Macomb, IL, 61455, USA<br>
e-mail: <a href="mailto:AP-Lian@wiu.edu" target="_blank">AP-Lian@wiu.edu</a>;
website: <a href="http://www.andrewlian.com" target="_blank">http://www.andrewlian.com</a><br>
Phone: +1 (309) 298-1558; Fax: +1 (309) 298-1060<br>
<br>
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Anaïs Nin)<br>
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms (Muriel Rukeyser)<br>
<br>
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change (Max
Planck)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<br>
-- <br>
Professor Dr Andrew Lian<br>
Vice-President of AsiaCALL<br>
Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages<br>
Western Illinois University<br>
Macomb, IL, 61455, USA<br>
e-mail: <a href="mailto:AP-Lian@wiu.edu">AP-Lian@wiu.edu</a>; website: <a
href="http://www.andrewlian.com">http://www.andrewlian.com</a><br>
Phone: +1 (309) 298-1558; Fax: +1 (309) 298-1060<br>
<br>
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Anaïs Nin)<br>
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms (Muriel Rukeyser)<br>
<br>
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change (Max
Planck)<o:p></o:p></p>
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