[Xerte] Re: New Templates

Thu Aug 25 16:59:08 BST 2011

Ah, but an acoustic bass guitar doesn't have a headstock that shape...

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 25 August 2011 16:57
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: New Templates

i know it's got four strings, but so has an acoustic bass guitar

Tut tut

Now I know someone with a bass ukelele which has rubber strings. Odd.

Now the little yellow tooltips, but when you put the mouse over the
next and back page buttons (top right)

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Duh. The uke's only got four strings - you can clearly see the tuners!
>
> I'll fix the tool tips.. is that what you mean?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 25 August 2011 16:34
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: New Templates
>
> i get undefined hover text for the buttons, and an undefined on the
> bottom box of the page list pop up.
>
> The game seems fine bar it's hard to tell a uke from a guitar at that
> resolution.....
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Kemp Johnathan
> <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> What kind of accordion is that, is it an Irish button accordion? Or is it a
>> single row melodeon?
>>
>> As for the Oud, I haven't seen one of those in a long time (not without
>> Doctor Who in tow :-)
>> JK
>> On 25 August 2011 16:09, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, should be OK now.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
>>>
>>> Sent: 25 August 2011 16:00
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: New Templates
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I just broke it... sorry!
>>>
>>> If you click on a picture card before the last two cards you turned over
>>> have gone back face down the picture card gets stuck up.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks good though.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
>>> Sent: 25 August 2011 14:48
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: New Templates
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, there's a first stab at a memory game in the expo file:
>>>
>>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Page 53.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For developers I think the .rlm is also a useful example of using decision
>>> icons / custom events to keep things neat:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/xerte/source/browse/trunk/templates/pageTemplates/models/memory.rlm
>>> [cut, paste and save as .rlm]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Franck Petit
>>> Sent: 19 August 2011 11:10
>>> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: New Templates
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nice to be able to pair words/images, words/sounds,
>>> sound/images, sound/words and to be offered to generate a set of 6, 9 or 12
>>> cards according to the level of difficulty desired.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> De : xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] De la part de Julian Tenney
>>> Envoyé : vendredi 19 août 2011 12:43
>>> À : Xerte discussion list
>>> Objet : [Xerte] Re: New Templates
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The memory game: the cards have words ? Or pictures? So, in the editor I
>>> just type lots of words:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mandolin,banjo,guitar,piano
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And then two cards are created for each word?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or each word is associated with a picture?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How does it work?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Crosswords are hard to do. Open to suggestions but they are harder than
>>> you first think: how does the editing work, and how does the exercise get
>>> generated? How does the user enter the letters in the cells? The word search
>>> is also a  bit tricky to generate dynamically, and again, I';m not sure how
>>> the author would create / edit one?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Franck Petit
>>> Sent: 19 August 2011 09:40
>>> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: New Templates
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 3 ideas of word games that would be nice to have on toolkits (you'll
>>> probably answer that I'm very welcome to code them. I would if I could)
>>>
>>> -          Memory game with a set of cards to turn until you've finished
>>> matching the pairs
>>>
>>> -          Crosswords
>>>
>>> -          Words hidden in a box filled with random letters
>>>
>>> Cheers, Franck
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> De : xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] De la part de Julian Tenney
>>> Envoyé : jeudi 18 août 2011 14:44
>>> À : Xerte discussion list
>>> Objet : [Xerte] New Templates
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hiya,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I want to make a new toolkits zip, 1.7, file before ALT-C in September, so
>>> am going through, tidying up, adding some new models etc. This will be minor
>>> release just to synch everything up and put out the latest additions and
>>> fixes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 5 new templates in the main template:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> JMolViewer, for viewing 3D models of molecular structures;
>>>
>>> Matching Texts interaction for matching pairs of text chunks
>>>
>>> Modify Exercise, moved into the main template form mediaInteractions.
>>> Allows the user to re-write a piece of text and compare to a model answer.
>>>
>>> Games: Hangman. Any more ideas for games?
>>>
>>> Google Translate tool for translating languages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Examples are all in the page types example file:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http:///www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there anything else you want adding?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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