[Xerte] Adding from other applications

Thu Jan 28 10:26:19 GMT 2010

There's an example, with all the interactions at:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/mediaInteractions/

The general idea is that this is a lesson, something like 'At the
Shops'. The lesson graphic is something relevant to shopping, and then
either a sound or video of a shopping scenario are used as the media.

The transcript is synched to the media playback with markup like this:

<chunk s="3" e="6">here is  a chunk of transcript</chunk>

The user progresses through the interactions. A couple of them use the
chunks from the transcript (work order and dictation). We need to make a
tool to make it easier to chunk up the transcript - this is currently
tedious.

The author can set a language - this dermines the characters shown in
the character pad when the end user is typing into a textfield, and
gives them access to the special characters for that language. Press
shift for upper case.

Feedback, and ideas for other interactions are welcome - I'd very much
like this to be a community effort. Toolkits is getting installed in
more and more places now, and I can see that a few langauge teachers
could very quickly create a critical mass of content and share it via
xpert.

J 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:59 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Adding from other applications

Ahh. So you want it to match correctly when you enter 'typed' or 'was
typing'. I see. To my simple mind 'was typing' is two words, so couldn't
possibly be the right answer...

You can play around with it right now in the standalone verison - that
cotnains files last touche on 22 Jan. There is a bit of messing around
to do to get things working smoothly and finish it off - and I'm open to
ideas for new interactions if you have any. I want it finished by end of
Feb.

The idea is that the piece is centred around a piece of media, and then
a series of interactions. The media is visible throughout. 

Any feedback ata ll would be good right now,

Thanks,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hall C.M.
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:54 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Adding from other applications

I'm teaching EFL. The problem I have is the choice of answer is between,
for example,  worked/ was working. When I've tried to make two word gaps
Xerte objects L If I put two gaps it gives the answer away. I've tried
using underscores and dashes but that's not really ideal.

The new templates sound interesting. When will they be available?

Chris

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 27 January 2010 16:06
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Adding from other applications

I did some work recently on the gap fill exercise to allow parts of
words to be marked up for gaps - previously you could only mark up whole
words. What's a 'two- gap word'?

There is also a new template pretty much finished designed with modern
languages teaching in mind - what are you teaching?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hall C.M.
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:03 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Adding from other applications

My original question was about adding a Hot Potatoes Gap Fill to a Xerte
package in order to get round the problem of two-word gaps in Xerte. Eg
adding a Hot Potatoes page like a Google map but it doesn't seem
possible other than as a link. Not sure how SCORM is relevant either.

Chris

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Adding from other applications

I'm not sure how SCORM is relevant?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Yuping Jin
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Adding from other applications

Is this expected by SCORM compliant LMS? To play other SCORM contents or
leverage them? I mean I'm not sure what kind of interoperability can be
obtained by complying to SCORM. Is it expected to insert SCORM content
from other product into Xerte piece?
Any point would be appreciated! 

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

No, but you can create links to them from a Xerte piece,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hall C.M.
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:32 PM

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Subject: [Xerte] Adding from other applications

Hi,

This might seem a strange question but Is it possible to add activities
from other applications, Hot Potatoes for example, to Xerte or Xerte
Toolkits?

Chris Hall

e-Learning Support Officer

Swansea University

http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk <http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/>  

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