Thanks John for sharing this. It's always useful to have a range of resources to help people get started.
If anyone else has Xerte guides, PowerPoints etc that you use with staff development we're interested in hearing from you to add to the Community site.
The Xenith project that Ron mentioned below is gathering pace and many of the Xerte page type templates can already create iPad and mobile friendly versions. What's even better is that your existing learning objects will be able to do the same. For example Katharine Reedy posted some Open University learning objects to this list recently. We uploaded one into our test server and this html5 version was created automatically and instantly.
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play_html5.php?template_id=183
Exciting times
A
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From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 27 November 2012 17:01
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Subject: Re: HTML5 starter' video'
John
why on earth would you set about creating a 'cheat version' to run via html5 when we already have the Xenith code built-in to XOT? The iSpring convertor that you've used is also quite fussy about browser version etc.
There'll be little need for the Flash playback version apart from perhaps use during f2f sessions, but certainly no need to create a separate version for use on iPads etc http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/455
I'd wait until around 7th Dec when XOT 1.9 should be released.
Ron
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From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Whalley
Sent: 27 November 2012 16:17
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Subject: HTML5 starter' video'
Hi everyone,
I'm having a go at producing a 'Beginners Guide to XOT' as a little thought project and felt that I ought to share it with you before I went too far down this particular path and see what you thought of it.
The object consists of a link to a short HTML5 video ( on page 2) which covers the very start of understanding how to construct a new Learning Object, its then followed by a short quiz to test understanding.
Since the 'bones' of it, - the HTML5 video - will also work on an ipad, I decided to have a go at producing an HTML5 'cheat' version of the xerte object which should also run on an iPad or iPhone. If you open it up on either it should run the 'cheat' version.
You can find it at:
http://www.jwhlearning.co.uk/xot/
(Can't do anything about the Lancashire accent though!)
I know there are accessibility implications of having a 'non-standard'
background and a moving object at the start and end.
It should work with most (hopefully all newer browsers).
Please take a look and let me know your thoughts.
John
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