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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We are running IE 8, as our PCs have Office 2010 (also 2007), PowerPoints from the web never open in the slide show mode they always open in the editing mode, it is a known problem, if you are running Office 2003 then it is not a problem.<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'>But when I click on your link it looks like the dialogue box which asks you want you want to do, open or save only flashes up on screen briefly then disappears then nothing else happens. <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'>Shirley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Shirley Crawford <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0080FF'>E-Learning Teaching Mentor</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0080FF'>(Room J453 </span><a href="tel:external"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tel:external</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0080FF'>: 01726 226755 ext 2755)<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Cornwall College - St Austell </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='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><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"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alistair McNaught<br><b>Sent:</b> 07 November 2011 11:04<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Xerte for primary school audience<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Shirley</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have it working in 3 different browsers but they respond different ways:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>IE 8 loads a Window with a PowerPoint in editing mode rather than show mode (but that’s easy enough to then play the normal way). </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>FireFox prompts to download it locally where it then runs happily </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Chrome ditto.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Which browser are you using? Or is it a security setting? I set the PPT to run as a PPT Show – maybe your firewall is blocking it for some reason? I could upload a new slide with a normal ppt or Word doc and see if that works in your system?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><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:[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]">[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Shirley Crawford<br><b>Sent:</b> 07 November 2011 10:53<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Xerte for primary school audience</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Alistair</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It looks good, but I cannot get the presentation to open on page 10 a box flashes up very quickly and disappears.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Shirley</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Shirley Crawford <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0080FF'>E-Learning Teaching Mentor</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0080FF'>(Room J453 </span><a href="tel:external"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tel:external</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0080FF'>: 01726 226755 ext 2755)<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Cornwall College - St Austell </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><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:[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]">[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alistair McNaught<br><b>Sent:</b> 07 November 2011 10:03<br><b>To:</b> A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits<br><b>Cc:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Xerte for primary school audience</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve had so many good ideas from people and useful advice that I thought I’d let people see where I’ve got to so far so I can get comments on how to improve it. Also copied to technical list in case they have any ideas on improvements (preferably not too technical!).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please note that I’ve just worked on the basic Xerte skeleton at the moment. I intend to use Xerte to link to jigsaw type activities (and other web based tools) as well as Interactive PowerPoints and interactive Word documents. <a href="http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_66" target=new>http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_66</a> is the resource so far.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All of the templates I’ve used are bog standard Xerte templates but in places I’ve used a tiny bit of html code <img src=”url goes here”> in the standard dialogue boxes to add some extra images. I uploaded the extra images using the Properties panel and then the Media and quota tab which allows you both to upload resources directly (like extra images or PPTs) as well as get a url for any resource you uploaded.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I used the New Page Navigator template to link an interactive PowerPoint into the mix and I’ll use this later for links to jigsaws and interactive Word docs as well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found PPT absolutely brilliant as a really quick tool for editing images – for example in Slide 13 on the guitar section I needed arrows to point to different things that were being spoken about. I put the image I needed into PPT, duplicated it as many times as I needed then added the arrow, moving and resizing as required (see image below). You can then either group the arrow and image together and right click to “Save as image” or you can do what I did which was to use FS Capture – a free and portable screen snipping tool) to capture just the bits of each image that I needed. It’s really quick once you have a logical workflow.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Things I’m struggling with? At the moment the first three images on slide 13 don’t show, even though they are definitely loaded and I can reference them in a test page on slide 14. I’m looking into that. I’m a little unsure if language levels etc are right. Content wise it’s a bit of a mix but that’s because we are using it as a test to sell an idea about how we could create development focused resources across different parts of the curriculum.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m giving this a public outing on Thursday to see if it is worth developing for a schools consortium context in Hampshire so any improvements you can suggest in the short term will be welcome and after Thursday there may be opportunity for me to extend this work much further. I’ll keep people updated because live projects are always fun, especially getting input and ideas from people. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=724 height=542 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CC9D3F.6B2FB190"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PowerPoint being used as a Xerte Image editor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alistair<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>Alistair McNaught</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>Senior Advisor </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#F79646'>JISC</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <span style='color:#31849B'>TechDis</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>C/O The Higher Education Academy Building</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>Innovation Way</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>York Science Park</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>YORK</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>YO10 5BR</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>07870567659</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4'>Skype: alistair_techdis</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'><a href="http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/?utm_source=emailsig&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sitelaunchmail">http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F6228'>Interested in pragmatic inclusion- focused staff development? <br>See JISC TechDis <a href="http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/pages/detail/floating_pages/ITQ_Accessible_IT_Practice"><span style='color:#4F6228'>ITQ for accessible IT practice</span></a> information and <a href="http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=5"><span style='color:#4F6228'>taster resource</span></a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This email is confidential and may be privileged. 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