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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Very nice resource for a first time! I look forward to your next one!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I noticed you have a timer on the page Locate information in a book. From an accessibility point of view I’d discourage that because it disadvantages people
 who might be using assistive technologies or who – like me – had a slow connection and missed the deadline before the page finished loading
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Also the live chat might be worth embedding direct into the LO rather than linking off elsewhere (assuming you can get an embed code for it or even just add
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Thanks for sharing!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Last week’s free XerteFriday webinar had lots of links to lots of different examples so its worth looking there for inspiration too – the links and slides
 are yet to be uploaded on the TechDis website but here’s a sneak preview of the links we referenced in the session (attached)</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rachel Chavez<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 February 2014 13:46<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Xerte discussion list'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Feedback</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Dear Mohamed,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Congratulations – it looks really good. I really like the colour coding you’ve used for different resources and your live chat.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">We’ve done something very similar at Kingston – here are the Xerte ‘rules’ we tend to stick by.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">We don’t want really long Xertes with lots of pages but, we also try and organise the content so that it displays within the initial window and doesn’t require
 any scrolling down.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">We try to make our Xertes as interactive and as least text-heavy as possible. In our referencing Xerte we have inserted podcast videos explaining how to write
 full references and exercises where the students then have to put the different parts of references in the correct order. There are also some spot the mistake exercises.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">We offer two resources to support referencing. We’ve labelled our Xerte guide as ‘An introduction to referencing’ that will help students get started. It covers
 books, magazines and websites. We then have a Word document with bookmark links that goes more in-depth and offers advice on referencing a whole range of materials, similar to you.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I hope that is useful!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Kind regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Rachel</span></p>
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<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>Mohamed Abdulkarim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 February 2014 13:10<br>
<b>To:</b> 'xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk'<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I’m teaching myself how to use the Xerte tool to create online library tutorials on
<b>Referencing</b> for our Library users (FE students).  I created a learning object having worked through a Xerte how-to tutorial, This tutorial has been developed to support students and teachers. Your comments and suggestions are very important to me in
 order to improve what I have done so far. Please click on this link <a href="http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=1364">
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=1364</a> to navigate through the pages.</span></p>
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