[Xerte] Re: Xerte in primary schools - turning into philosophical discourse.
Dave Burnett
d_b_burnett at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 7 15:45:53 GMT 2011
Hope is not a strategy.
;-)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:35:31 +0100
From: reijnders at tor.nl
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte in primary schools - turning into philosophical discourse.
I knew you were an optimist!!! ;-)
Op 7-11-2011 15:20, Alistair McNaught schreef:
A fair point and well made! You will have
noted of course my final point was “it could be risky putting in a functionality
that could be used inappropriately in the distance learning
context”.
To a large extent it’s a maturity issue. The
more ‘accessibility mature’ (ie aware and intelligently
active) an organisation is the more there is to be gained by
mixing and matching partially accessible solutions to meet
particular needs. However, the concept of partial
accessibility is dangerous in an organisation that lacks
accessibility maturity because it then becomes an excuse for
doing little or nothing and you can get cringe-worthy
attitudes like “these resources are specifically designed
for ‘normal’ people” – which just means “I don’t know any
good practices and couldn’t be bothered finding out”.
There’s some interesting discussion to be had
around the area. My observations would suggest there are
four main categories of developer in relation to
accessibility:
·
The denialist – doesn’t consider it and
wouldn’t know what it involved or why it was important.
·
The minimalist – does what is required to
cover their back in terms of legislation and contracts.
·
The optimist – actively tries to engage and
support learning with the use of different resources with
different levels of accessibility in order to meet as wide a
range of needs as possible by different methods.
·
The purist – only creates resources that are
wholly standards compliant and fully accessible to all users
irrespective of disability.
The following comments are worth noting.
Purists maximise the number of people who can
use their resources but depending on the nature of the topic
and the learner, they can compromise on the number of people
who enjoy using them. They might also create resources at a
slower rate.
Denialists, minimalists and optimists are all
well served by Xerte.
Purists don’t use it because it’s based on
Flash and everyone knows Flash is not only proprietary but
also completely “inaccessible”
J
A
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 07 November 2011 12:46
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte in primary schools
Alistair, is this not the slippery slope you have
cautioned us of on other occasions?
What of the danger of a non-accessible piece escaping into
the wild, like a GMO?
;-)
From:
Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:19:20 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte in primary schools
It’s only a non-no when you have no
idea who your audience is or what their specific needs
might be - for example when creating an online course
that could be marketed to people with different
nationalities, disabilities or connectivities.
In primary and secondary education,
Xerte is likely to be used in a class based context -
for example with an interactive whiteboard. In this
case, teachers will often use timers to produce a
creative tension or create friendly competitiveness
between groups or even just help distractable pupils
stay on track. For some learners that can be a trick
that helps include them.
Like many aspects of accessibility it's
not the technique that is accessible or inaccessible
but the context in which it is applied. I can,
however, see that from a developer point of view it
could be risky putting in a functionality that could
be used inappropriately in the distance learning
context.
A
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On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 07 November 2011 09:58
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte in primary
schools
>Would be nice if Xerte had an “add
page timer” option that could give you a countdown for
doing a task under time pressure. I might copy the
technical list into this email in case anyone there is
working on a similar idea.
I thought that was an accessibility
no-no?
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On
Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 05 November 2011 09:43
To: A list to facilitate and support
teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits
Cc: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte in primary
schools
Thanks John and Bob for the ideas –
the John’s Moodle book has given lots of ideas
already just flicking through the contents.
I can see some “Xerte Spot the
Difference” activities with the Morph Image template
and some external links to jigsaws using the NewPage
navigator template.
Talking of templates I could probably
do a nice “climate cross section” using the tabbed
navigator to work down the latitudes. I’ll try the
new Hangman template and I have a great audio clip
from my friend (who set up the charity) describing
his encounter with an angry hippo as a child when he
was head butted into the river. That will go really
well with the audio slideshow template. I could do
another style of spot the difference with the
annotated diagram template. If I’ve got time I’ll do
a Camstudio screencapture describing the Savanna and
then turn it into a synched video followed by a
multichoice quiz.
Would be nice if Xerte had an “add
page timer” option that could give you a countdown
for doing a task under time pressure. I might copy
the technical list into this email in case anyone
there is working on a similar idea.
Being primary age kids I’ll probably
not risk the Flickr and YouTube templates since the
results involve a degree of unpredictability!
That’s my weekend sorted..
Thanks for the ideas – I just needed
something to get the creative juices flowing. I’ll
let people see the finished products when I’m done .
A
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On Behalf Of Bob Read
Sent: 05 November 2011 08:52
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject:
Hi Alistair
Like John I’d also
recommend having a look at some on line jigsaw
websites such as
www.jigsawplanet.com
. The puzzles are made within seconds and I’m sure
you could use some photos or images of scenes
relevant to overseas development as the basis of
some activities.
Sounds like really
useful project – good luck!
regards
Bob
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On Behalf Of John Doubleday
Sent: 04 November 2011 19:59
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject:
Hi
Alistair,
Games
are the thing...online snakes and
ladders....jigsaw, simple word search
This
is a Moodle2 book for teachers of 4-9 year old
You may get some ideas.
http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=55&rid=5125
cheers
johnD
Digital Teacher-Super Tech
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Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Alistair McNaught
<Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk>
wrote:
I’m
doing some volunteering for a small charity
creating resources for primary school children
to help them understand development in general
and the activities of the charity in
particular. We’re using Xerte to create
resources for use in the primary classroom.
Whilst I have lots of experience with Xerte
and lots of experience in teaching development
to post 16 audiences I have little experience
of primary classrooms so if anyone has any
hints and tips about the kind of approaches to
take, the kinds of resources I might be
integrating with etc I’d be very grateful.
Alistair
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