[Xerte] Re: Xerte LO - xerte possibilities for psychology andsociology

[Alistair McNaught]

Hi Andy

The text entry page with feedback is one of the templates created by Ron
Mitchell of Mitchellmedia. It is freely available to the community but
for technical reasons (I don't do coding so don't ask me what they are!)
I don't think it has been incorporated into the main Xerte build -
unless the latest release proves me wrong. The colours were tweaked by
the same guy when we uploaded our Xerte install but other than that one
page type everything else was off the shelf online toolkits.

 

Online toolkits is very powerful and I hope one of the things we showed
today was that while as a tutor you can't necessarily do everything you
might dream of doing you can do a great deal that looks fantastic in
very little time with very limited technical skills. As you get familiar
with the templates you also begin to see pedagogical opportunities you
wouldn't have thought of beforehand.

 

A commercial Flash developer could have taken weeks to develop today's
LO from scratch and would have charged handsomely. I have no coding
skills whatsoever and created it in half a day by copying, pasting and
browsing to files. 

 

Alistair

 

 

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Davidson,
Andrew
Sent: 06 May 2011 13:13
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte LO - xerte possibilities for psychology
andsociology

 

Hi Alistair - I liked what you did with Xerte. Was this done just using
the XOT templates? Or did you do some additional work to create some
page types? E.g. I noticed you've got a nice text entry page type with
feedback but this is not in my templates in XOT. Also noticed your page
display colours were different to the default - something you programmed
in?

 

Best

 

Andy Davidson

 

 

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair
McNaught
Sent: 06 May 2011 11:12
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Subject: [Xerte] Xerte LO - xerte possibilities for psychology and
sociology

 

Hi all

A reminder there will be the monthly Xerte Friday session today at 1pm
(GMT +1 for those outside the UK) on using Xerte in Psychology and
Sociology.

 

If you can't make the session but would like to see the learning object
it's to be found at http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_40 - I've
been particularly pleased with how I've been able to subvert the Audio
slideshow to create an interactive psychology experiment online...
there's also a nice example of statistical sampling which didn't get
into the earlier stats session at the beginning of the year. Please pass
on the link as appropriate if you have relevant staff.

 

The session will be recorded and the url for the recording will appear
on the JISC Techdis website either today or Monday on the page
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/pages/detail/online_resources/Xerte
_online_training_sessions_2011 

 

Look forward to seeing some of you online.

 

Alistair

 

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