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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">></span> Why does the animation need audio?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">As the Zen saying goes
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">“Sometimes it doesn’t but sometimes it does”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The problem is that on the occasions when the animation DOES benefit from narration it is essential the two are in synch otherwise you can add confusion.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">From an accessibility point of view being able to pause both animation and narration on demand is very helpful. That’s why – although I use animated gifs
in some LOs they tend not to be very complicated so I’ve never needed to put narration alongside.
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<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>Pat L (pgogy)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 July 2014 13:15<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Animation makes a gif, you can add an MP3 alongside the gif if you like</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why does the animation need audio?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Alistair McNaught <<a href="mailto:Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk" target="_blank">Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:#1F497D">The existing SynchVideo page can do some really useful stuff with creative tutors but the current timeline process is a bit clunky so any improvements or evolutions of that page type would be great.</span></p>
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<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>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 July 2014 12:57</span></p>
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<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:#1F497D">Maybe the idea we have for the video lesson template might be a starting point: the idea is that we have timeline media (video / audio) and then you can add further content in different panes on the
screen, and then add elements to those panes, and then do stuff with them – like animate a graphic from one place to another for example.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><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" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alistair McNaught<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 July 2014 12:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</span></p>
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<p>I guess it's all to do with matching ambition to competence.</p>
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<p>People with modest ambitions can be encouraged to fulfil those ambitions with the competencies they already have. I could use PowerPoint with photos scape/unfreeze to create water cycles, simple plate tectonics, ozone creation/destruction, simple lab and
field techniques etc. None of them would be interactive, just simple linear animations showing the steps involved. For a lot of tutors that would be an exciting stage beyond where they currently are using little more than the skills they already have.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Once you begin to move beyond modest ambitions the "time consuming at the best of times" penalty becomes much more significant and time would be better invested in learning to use a proper tool.
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<p>One of the joys of Xerte toolkits is that it spans that whole spectrum, allowing people with modest IT skills to create much more ambitious learning objects than they would have expected, yet still allowing very competent developers to create even more ambitious
resources.</p>
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<p>From my perspective the ideal "inbuilt" animation tool within toolkits would be oriented at helping the technically modest achieve something they wouldn't have expected to achieve. To this end, possibly a better way of thinking about an animation tool would
be to consider pedagogical scenarios. This might be as simple as </p>
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</span>building up a complex diagram element by element (and elements may include labels)</p>
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</span>deconstructing a diagram element by element</p>
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</span>creating simple object paths with auto tweening</p>
<p>The technically competent would already have a wide range of tools and preferences open to them so focusing on the less competent would be a benefit for usability.</p>
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<p>A</p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Julian
Tenney<br>
Sent: 07 July 2014 12:36<br>
To: Xerte discussion list<br>
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</span></p>
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<p>Fair enough.</p>
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<p>But if you've got time to do animation, you've got time to learn some decent tools to do it efficiently, because it's time consuming at the best of times, and I'd hate people to be doing all that fiddling about in PowerPoint when they could be using a timeline.</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----</p>
<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught</p>
<p>Sent: 07 July 2014 12:29</p>
<p>To: Xerte discussion list</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p>Looks brilliant but not for the fainthearted and not for doing something quick and simple - a tutor would need familiarity with layers, masks, timelines, nested timelines, paths etc. For simple stuff like the Fieldwork LO quoted earlier in the thread it
would be overkill.</p>
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<p>A</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----</p>
<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Julian Tenney</p>
<p>Sent: 07 July 2014 11:46</p>
<p>To: Xerte discussion list</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p><a href="http://animatron.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">http://animatron.com/</span></a></p>
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<p>This is fairly close to what I had in mind. Not sure how easy it is to use in reality though.</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----</p>
<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Julian Tenney</p>
<p>Sent: 07 July 2014 11:28</p>
<p>To: Xerte discussion list</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p>A visual editor for CreateJS. It doesn't see there is one already.</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----</p>
<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Smith, John</p>
<p>Sent: 07 July 2014 10:45</p>
<p>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a></p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p>I would be very surprised if there wasn't already (or in the pipeline) an html5 editor and engine to rival what flash can do. Or it would make a good github project that i think would attract developers.</p>
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<p>Regards</p>
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<p>John Smith</p>
<p>Learning Technologist</p>
<p>School of Health and Life Sciences</p>
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<p>Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII</p>
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<p>Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>> wrote:</p>
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<p>It would be an interesting project to build a simple but powerful animation tool. I nearly did it with the drawing tools, because it struck me that you have all the xml info to create graphics, so why not add a timeline...</p>
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<p>...but that seemed like a lot of work at the time. I reckon you could do something easily enough using imported graphics and transitions for move / scale / etc. I think the trick would be the FWS test.</p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----</p>
<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Smith, John</p>
<p>Sent: 07 July 2014 10:08</p>
<p>To: Xerte discussion list</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>I don't disagree with Julian that Flash etc still often have their place within the Xerte LO development cycle and some users (Alistair and Ron are definitely near if not at the top of that list) are very innovative in their use of different packages to
create something to enhance the user experience but I definitely agree with Ron's point that something that allowed 'simple' animation would be a useful feature, especially for those without Flash experience and who dislike PPT. What that looks like or how
complicated it gets i don't know yet...</p>
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<p>I think my bugbear with alternative solutions is that you then have to somehow manage the support files. It's like PDFs - it's a regular occurance that people lose the original Word doc and although there are good converters back to Word, none are perfect
and I doubt they ever will be... it's the same when you start using support Flash files, PPTs, etc that then get lost and need to be recreated.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I also like the simple 'updatability' of some of the pages in Xerte. Some could equally argue that the Table and Chart pages in Xerte are pointless (other than for backward compatibility). You can create better looking tables/charts in Excel, take a screenshot
and import that but when you come to add the latest year's data then you have to do it again... the benefits with Xerte are that you just add a new line...</p>
<p> </p>
<p>People will always navigate towards tools that they know they can make work in the time they have - I don't think that's a problem but could we make it easier for those who have no experience of any package?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>John Smith | Learning Technologist</p>
<p>Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Please address ALL support requests to <a href="mailto:hlsblt@gcu.ac.uk" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">hlsblt@gcu.ac.uk</span></a> where one of the School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure that all jobs are completed as promptly as possible.</p>
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<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>]</p>
<p>Sent: 07 July 2014 09:35</p>
<p>To: Xerte discussion list</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p>> That kind of animation from Nottingham done in PowerPoint, saved as a movie and then converted to mp4 or uploaded to a streaming service does work very well but obviously there isn't really any potential for user interaction via that route unless perhaps
keeping the movies granular and linking to different next steps based on user choice via links or multiple choice etc.</p>
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<p>I get that, but this is a non-technical user who has done something pretty decent, and I don’t want to start pointing out shortcomings – what I was asking was about how to do this easily / more easily because I suspect his process may be ‘non-optimum’ in
that it is taken significant time to put together. I wondered if there were any tools / approaches that makes this quick and easy – I can talk to him more about xerte and interactivity separately, but there is a place for movies, obviously, and this is about
finding efficient ways to make them.</p>
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<p>Personally I’d use Flash, import a narration, and then animate on the timeline to synch it all up, and then export a movie and run it through format factory. What would be good would be a simpler timeline based animation tool I suppose, or perhaps Flash
is pretty good for this sort of thing. The idea of doing it in ppt gives me the willies.</p>
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<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell</p>
<p>Sent: 06 July 2014 11:19</p>
<p>To: 'Xerte discussion list'</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Viewed this thread with interest at an event on Friday but no time to respond until now. I'd add the following comments…</p>
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<p>Creating this sort of narrated and sequenced animation is a common reason people say they prefer other tools like Captivate or Storyline or even Camtasia Studio. Obviously we all know that these can be used together with Xerte and no single tool does everything
and obviously cost and arguably the specialist skills required mean these tools aren't the option for the majority.</p>
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<p>That kind of animation from Nottingham done in PowerPoint, saved as a movie and then converted to mp4 or uploaded to a streaming service does work very well but obviously there isn't really any potential for user interaction via that route unless perhaps
keeping the movies granular and linking to different next steps based on user choice via links or multiple choice etc.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Converting the PowerPoint with a tool like iSpring Pro does offer potential for interaction and obviously these days the converted animation can be html rather than Flash but because the output is multiple files and sub folders can't easily be uploaded via
XOT and needs to be uploaded somewhere first. The same applies to creating this sort of thing direct in Articulate Storyline or Captivate or similar. I've often thought it would be good to upload and extract zip files via media and quota to make this sort
of use with output from other tools easier. But I guess there could be security risks to that too and perhaps challenges with export. There's quite a few different examples in the
<a href="http://learningmathsonline.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">http://learningmathsonline.ac.uk</span></a> stuff.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>In my experience not everyone likes or takes to the custom animation settings etc in PowerPoint but another way to do this depending on the animation required is to add all the elements around the edges of a slide and then use a tool like screencast-o-matic
or screenr to record the 'stage' area of the slide while you drag the elements onto the recorded area e.g. for creating common craft style explanations.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>If the author has a tablet then apps like Explain Everything or Doceri or the myriad of other annotation or animation apps provide loads of options arguably much quicker and more flexible than PowerPoint and are very low cost or free compared with desktop
or online apps. e.g. <a href="http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/play_36?template_id=html5&_36#resume=2" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/play_36?template_id=html5&_36#resume=2</span></a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>It would be good even to just have some simple sequenced transition effects in Xerte but if there were a way to strike the right balance between ease of use and flexibility within Xerte itself it would add even more value to the new editor features where
adding mutiple images/graphics to a page is so easy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Ron</p>
<p> </p>
<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught</p>
<p>Sent: 04 July 2014 20:11</p>
<p>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@pgogywebstuff.com%3cmailto:xerte@pgogywebstuff.com" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte@pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte@pgogywebstuff.com</span></a>>; Xerte discussion list</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
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<p>Well if we were talking about cakes and icing I’d go for both options <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"">
☺</span></p>
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<p>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>]
On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)</p>
<p>Sent: 04 July 2014 15:46</p>
<p>To: Xerte discussion list</p>
<p>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation</p>
<p> </p>
<p>recording and saving directly? Or uploaded MP3?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>>>
wrote:</p>
<p>In terms of ease of use, this is what I’m thinking:</p>
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<p>- Powerpoint or something is used to draw the graphics. A background, and items that can move;</p>
<p> </p>
<p>- The presenter talks through the content and creates the animation live, either by dragging things around, or having things animate to where the mouse is clicked (click object -> click screen -> object moves etc);</p>
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<p>- Maybe some other actions like scale / vanish / move fast / move slow</p>
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<p>- Some sort of screen recording is made to capture the video of the presentation;</p>
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<p>Does it sound like it might work?</p>
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<p>Does that work with your real world use cases?</p>
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<p>If it was easy for end user it would be great</p>
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<p>Would an animated gif maker be a good template?</p>
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<p>On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Alistair McNaught <<a href="mailto:Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk%3cmailto:Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk<mailto:Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk</span></a>>>
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<p>From a non technical viewpoint I do this sort of thing by</p>
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<p>• setting up a bespoke PowerPoint slide (maybe 6 x 8 cm page dimensions)</p>
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<p>• drawing the first frame</p>
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<p>• duplicating the slide</p>
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<p>• making the small changes needed for the second frame</p>
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<p>• duplicating the second frame</p>
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<p>• repeating</p>
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<p>• save finished presentation as gifs</p>
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<p>• use free tool like Photoscape or UnFreez (both portable so no admin rights needed to install) to determine the frame delays between them.</p>
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<p>• Save as animated gif.</p>
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<p>• Add to any relevant Xerte page</p>
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<p>There is real advantage in using PPT to create the frames because it is really familiar to people, flexible and easy to use. It doesn’t allow onion skinning etc but I’ve produced several things using this approach – see slide 4 of
<a href="http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_477" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_477</span></a> where the beach transect process is illustrated.</p>
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<p>I've often thought that we could use a page type that allows you to then add sub elements (media) each with their own script to control or a predefined script (such as move to the left, etc) and possibly a timer to tell the page when to run the script...
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<p>I’m just wondering what approaches people use for this sort of thing: we have a lecturer who wants to create animation simply. He’s currently using powerpoint to create this sort of thing:
<a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711</span></a></p>
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<p>I think the results are really good, and it’s taken some time to get right. I’m interested in optimising the approach a bit, to make it fast and efficient: maybe this is the best way of doing it, maybe there are others?</p>
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<p>What I’m interested in is what approaches / tools do people use for this sort of thing? It doesn’t have to be high end output: it could be a mixture of screen capture, whilst dragging things around and narrating the process for example. We’re not looking
to turn staff into Flash developers, it’s more about simple approaches that are easy and quick to do.</p>
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<p>Ideas?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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