Hi Tom,

It's a while since I used Learnwise, and it may have changed since then.
When I was using it there wasn't any way of uploading bundles of HTML
(eg. An HTML file with associated images, css, javascript etc) unless
you did it one file at a time.

The alternative was to package the bundle in a SCORM content package.
But you don't really want to go into that...

Cheers,

Mark


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Subject: Re: [VLES] Integrating an Inspirations output into a VLE

Hi There,

Does anyone have any experience using 'Openmind' mind mapping software
to do a similar process? It also exports as HTML, and I am hoping to use
it to create courses to integrate into our 'learnwise' based VLE,
launching
(hopefully!!) September 2008.

Tom

















On Mon, 23 Jun, Dave Foord wrote:
> One of the problems with VLEs is they tend to have a linear structure 
> (resources are listed linearly) and although we can use folder 
> structures to give some structure, with most VLEs as you navigate into

> the folder structure you lose site of the 'bigger picture' of where 
> the resources are in relation to everything else.
> 
> I have recently been running training at a few colleges with the Mind 
> Mapping software 'Inspirations', and I have discovered that it is 
> possible to use Inspirations to link learning resources together in a 
> meaningful organised structured visual map, you can then package the 
> whole thing up as HTML (and Inspirations will then take copies of all 
> the resources in this
> process) and then upload the whole thing to a VLE.
> 
> The advantages are:-
> 
> 1) If you have a lot of resources to upload, this is actually a much 
> quicker way of doing this
> 2) The learners have the resources arranged in a more meaningful way
> 3) As the whole thing is packaged in HTML, you can access the 
> materials on any computer without needing the Inspirations software
> 4) If in the future your organisation ever changes VLE, rather than 
> transferring 100s of individual resources, you would only have to 
> transfer a much smaller number of packages
> 5) The packages could work offline, so if networks fail, you have some

> kind of a back up plan
> 
> I have so far tested this with Moodle and Blackboard, and instructions

> for each are on my blog, links are below. I imagine that the process 
> will work with other VLEs and with other Mind Mapping software, but I 
> haven't had a chance to test them yet.
> 
> Moodle
> http://davefoord.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/integrating-inspirations-out
> puts-i
> nto-moodle-to-manage-files/
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/4jhf8d
> 
> Blackboard
> http://davefoord.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/uploading-an-inspirations-ou
> tput-t
> o-blackboard/
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/5ld5r5
> 
> 
> Dave Foord
> A6 Training and Consultancy Ltd
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> Tel/Fax: 01509 556950
> web: www.A6training.co.uk
> Skype:dave.foord
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