[Xerte] Text Entry Hints

[Julian Tenney]

Show it as a tooltip, no problem:

 

Could do that after the user enters the first n characters incorrectly?
Or so many characters are wrong?

 

Then randomly make the b_ll_h__t tooltip and float it next to the text
field - by blanking out a percentage of the characters at random? Or
starting with b___ls___ and then adding in random characters as they
continue to not improve their match?

 

Might be tricky for short words.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:18 PM
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints

 

Can you somehow hang it on there as a tooltip?

It'll turn it into a game. "Hey mate, take a look at this, any ideas?"
Then they get to sound out the phonetics until they get it, then they
have to type it in, thereby setting it in stone in their minds forever.
My theory, which belongs to me, is mine.



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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:08:58 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

I was updating the text in the field with the hint.

 

How would I do that this way?

 

I could wait foir the field to get focus again and then hide the
text...?

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:06 PM
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints

 

Wheel of Fortune style.

1 hint:
b__ll_h_t




> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:58:35 +0000
> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints
> 
> I've got an interaction with a passage of text, and several words
> blanked out to make a fill in the blank exercise.
> 
> How would you best use a hint to keep the learner on track?
> 
> Right now I am checking over the current answer, counting how many
> correct characters there are, and then adding the next one.
> 
> Trouble is you can just keep banging the 'hint' button and you get
shown
> the answer eventually, and that's what people willdo: they need to
work
> out the answer for themselves, but get some help...
> 
> Any bright ideas? 
> 
> Can limit the number of hints per field?
> Limit to the first n characters (maybe word.length / 2);
> Allow only so may hints for the whole interaction?
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