[Xerte-dev] H5p Integration (was: An idea about timings in media lessons)

[Smith, Bradley]

Also on the subject of potential hackathon projects, a while back I mentioned a set of really nice-looking content types <http://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications> provided by a project called H5P. There is some overlap with Xerte content types, but even then I think there are some great design choices in the H5P versions that would benefit Xerte. Or, to put it more plainly, the H5P activities can be friendlier and prettier looking, and one of the orgs I work with decided to go with H5P over Xerte for that reason. The advantage that Xerte has is that it is its own hosting platform, whereas H5P has to be hosted in Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress. However, H5P designed it with adoption on other platforms in mind, and there’s a PHP interface <http://h5p.org/developers#new-plugin> that anything can implement to integrate with it as a host. 

I haven’t dug into this too deeply yet, but if Xerte could host H5P content types in addition to its own, it would both expand the kind of content that XOTs can display, and make it easier to deploy for people using H5P (btw, I’m hoping to have some Xerte deployment automation to show off as part of my presentation on Ansible at the conference!), who would then also have access to Xerte content types. Does this catch anyone else’s interest? 

—Brad

P.S. Another thing I’d love to start talking about at the hackathon: xAPI support. This is very relevant to the stuff I’ll be presenting on for my “federated learning experiences” presentation, by the way (/plug). ;)


> On May 27, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:
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> If you want to fork a copy of xot and start building it Brad and send me a reminder then i'll be happy to help... unfortunately I wont be in Baltimore though!!
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> John Smith
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: An idea about timings in media lessons
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> That's a good idea: you're right, the timings are just timings, so adding an intro will put everything out. It doesn't sound very difficult to implement, do you fancy having a go at it?
> 
> See you in Baltimore!
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, Bradley
> Sent: 27 May 2015 15:27
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] An idea about timings in media lessons
> 
> (…and several other things, I guess.)
> 
> I’ve been playing around with the Media Lesson component and my head is abuzz with ideas I’m looking forward to trying. One thing has occurred to me, though: it looks like every event that you want to play during the video takes a fixed synch point, and thus the order in which the events appear in the editor has no bearing on when they actually show up.
> 
> Consider: Suppose I make a change to a video that adds a 15 second clip starting 150 seconds in. Based on my limited experimentation so far, all of my events with synch points >= 150 are now off by 15 seconds, right?
> 
> What if we supported synch points specified in either of two formats: “X”, meaning “X seconds into the video”, or  “+X”, meaning “X seconds after the previous synch point”? This way if all of my synch points use the latter format I only need up update the one immediately after new clip in my video.
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> Thoughts?
> 
> —Brad
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