[Xerte] non coders?

[Mark Gray]

Hi all, just running of to class but think this is a good and necessary discussion and will have something to say later.

Cheers

Mark

On 18 Feb 2010, at 09:16, Julian Tenney wrote:

> I would love to see more discussion about design of content, what makes good interactivity and all that stuff – there’s too much terrible elearning out there, and it’s not to do with the coding. Good design and a bit of coding makes much better content than lots of coding a bit of design.
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> You can do quite a bit without writing a lot of code, particularly around presenting media: text, sound, video and graphics, and create some simple interactivity. If you work through the getting started guide, I think you’ll see what can be done without a lot of code.
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> Once you do start writing code, Xerte can do an awful lot for you. The icons hide an awful lot of complexity that would otherwise be time-consuming to create, and so development can be very fast, compared to creating the equivalent content off the bat in Flash. Coding isn’t so hard – and when you master it, you can do anything you want.
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Doubleday
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:46 AM
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> Subject: [Xerte] non coders?
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> Hi Everybody,
> While watching this list I notice most of the communication is about coding issues. Are their many no coders here. And is it realistic  to be a non coder and use  Xerte?
> Cheers
> John D
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