[Xerte] Text Entry Hints

[Dave Burnett]

Could do that after the user enters the first n characters
incorrectly? Or so many characters are wrong?
Hmm Thinking about your original moan about the deviousness of students.Won't they just learn to hit # until they get a hint? 
Maybe evaluate on enter.So they have to make some full length stab at it first.

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? 
Second option. Then it could be tied into a penalty stance if you wanted.
3 additional characters, -3 pts. 


Might be tricky for short words.
Like all and awl.




 





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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.











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…?

 





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Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:06 PM

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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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