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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m trying to make a case for the FlexSDK, because you can take one flex project and deliver it to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>PC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mac<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Android via Adobe Air (Blackberry’s, Android phones)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>iPhone via the iPhone Packager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>etc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That’s good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>However there are still differences, because events thrown by the various platforms differ, i.e. no onPress event on the mobile flash player, because there is no mouse: you need to listen for onTap or whatever it’s called. I have managed to get <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560</a> running on froyo, but not all the interactivity works because of those differences with the events. On a tablet (something like a Galaxy) the screen is big enough to not really need any modification.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I saw some of the augmented reality games running on an iPhone over Christmas and was blown away:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://toucharcade.com/category/games/augmented-reality/">http://toucharcade.com/category/games/augmented-reality/</a>. Now you start to see what might be possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rochford, Thomas<br><b>Sent:</b> 06 January 2011 11:29<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure about the current status of MoMo. When I last looked only a handful of devices were supported on it and the instructions on the website for the downloads didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In my view a potentially more interesting route is to use Moodle on a Stick (e.g. MAXOS but not essential) and to sync this with Moodle on a Server. The OU did run a project on this but the way they were doing it required the MySQL root password to be transmitted and this was obviously a ‘NoNo’ so the project was dropped.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Talking with Colleges who would like to use Moodle on a Stick to sync with Moodle on a Server, there is another way and that is to run a scripted application on the server. This would prompt the user for authentication and then transmit the credentials to the Moodle Server within the physical constraints of the machine room in which it was housed, i.e. there would be no need to transmit any passwords across the Internet, and the risk of a user’s credentials being hacked is no greater than it is for standard Moodle access. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The work that would then be needed is to retrieve the appropriate data from the server and pass it back in an appropriate format using css technology to format the data for the particular device. The scope probably also needs to be defined, e.g. is it going to be worthwhile updating discussion boards etc., which could be completely out of date by the time a sync actually takes place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This solution wouldn’t solve the ‘flash’ problem on mobile devices which is not restricted to iOS (imho) – I can’t get Flash to work on my Android 2.2 Froyo system and when I try to download the plugin for the new Android-compliant Firefox (which works well) I get a message that Flash is not supported on this device, if I use the inbuilt browser the Xerte RLOs on our Moodle site will not run (although it says Flash 10.1 is already installed and I can run the flash games that adobe provide at <a href="http://m.flash.com">http://m.flash.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kindest regards and I wish you all a Flashy New Year!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alistair McNaught<br><b>Sent:</b> 06 January 2011 10:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In terms of commercial content from publishers, ePub (an xml based developer friendly format) is solidly embedded in Europe, US and growing in Asia so Xerte being able to output the XML to different devices is exactly parallel to the commercial trends in big publishing houses. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When I have Xerte fantasies I think of tutors having XOT templates which can be filtered by operating system so as an author you click a drop down list on XOT to select “Android” or “PC” or “iPhone” etc and a set of templates appears that will run on that particular operating system. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That would be a great community development for people to bid for when funds come round….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe I can use this list to alert funding opportunities as well so that people could form consortia round the list contributors…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Reijnders<br><b>Sent:</b> 06 January 2011 10:37<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xerte] Moodle MObile<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Hmmm...<br><br>One viable route would be Xerte method.....<br>I mean..., RLO is basically an XML structure and have different apps on the different platforms to interpret and run them....<br><br>Rationale:<br>Using standards, the non-flash supoort on iOS sucks, because in my opinion that only leaves HTML5, which isn't mature enough (in my humble opinion).<br><br>So, for the time being, that implies dedicated players interpreting same 'documents'....<br><br>But I would be very interested in other solutions!<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Tom<br><br><br>Op 6-1-2011 11:08, Julian Tenney schreef: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OK, let’s try another question.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What would you choose to develop applications and content for mobile devices.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You need to author once, deliver anywhere: same source code has to go to Android, iOS, Blackberry at the very least.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Must have very good support for handling all sorts of external data sources.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Must have currency, so third party developers can be contracted for work if required.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Preferably has decent sized, active community of developers.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US 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"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 January 2011 19:11<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>"(or any other JAVA and Internet capable device)".<br><br>Tablets anyone?<br><br>Subject: RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile<br>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:55:36 +0000<br>From: <a href="mailto:Alistair.McNaught@HEAcademy.ac.uk">Alistair.McNaught@HEAcademy.ac.uk</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:knowledgeware@kccsoft.com">knowledgeware@kccsoft.com</a>; <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>CC: </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My thoughts entirely – Moodle is good stuff but somewhat clunky on a laptop never mind a phone…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>A</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US 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"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>KnowledgeWare<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 January 2011 18:43<br><b>To:</b> 'Xerte discussion list'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sounds cool but...does anyone really do courses on their 2X2 phone screen? Are there any research numbers anywhere on this?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>RonM2</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US 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"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nigel Irwin<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The MOMO (Mobile Moodle) project is an Add-On to the popular <a href="http://www.mobilemoodle.org/momo18/course/www.moodle.org" target="_blank" title=Moodle><span style='color:#848484'>Moodle</span></a> Learning Management System. It brings the ability to implement mobile learning scenarios with Moodle as a backend.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Mobile users install the MOMO client, a JAVA based application, on their mobile phones (or any other JAVA and Internet capable device). Through this client they can access courses wherever they are, which allows completely new scenarios.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Administrators install the necessary MOMO extension on their Moodle server which makes the compatible contents available for mobile usage. They can configure and maintain the system through the integrated administration interface all within Moodle.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Teachers can design courses with either several mobile elements or complete mobile learning scenarios using the tools and methodologies they know from within Moodle.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards, Nigel</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IT Training and Support Co-ordinator</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <br></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>01444 884906</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US 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"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Moodle MObile</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Anyone got any experience of Moodle Mobile? 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