Thanks Ron,
I have a couple more in the pipeline which I'll share in the next few
days but I'll 'hang fire' on the 'cheats' until the next version of
XOT appears since it's not that far off.
I'm also going to run them through the converters and see if I can
reproduce the example videos purely within XOT and if there might be
peripheral implications for deliverers of doing that.
Interesting developments ahead!
I'd still like feedback from other folks on the general aspects of the
Learning Object and embedded video, comments welcome.
Can I second Ron's plea for everyone to share what you're doing on
this list and the Community site? We must all be doing things which
can spark ideas in others - let's see some more!
John
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John Whalley
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Skype: whalleyj Twitter: @whalleyj11
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Ron Mitchell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As you say Alistair exciting times!
>
> Also just to clarify with the Xenith code in place, as it is in this Techdis
> installation, when you create a new LO, edit an existing one, or import as
> you have done with Katherine's example, it doesn't create a separate
> learning object or any kind of conversion. You still create and edit in the
> same way as previously and that authoring side still requires Flash player
> to work. However what you automatically have is two different ways to play
> the LO's e.g. via Flash or via HTML5. So it's the same content just two
> different players. At a basic level it's author once for desktop, laptop and
> mobile delivery! However I think it's a bit more complicated than that
> because of how different mobile devices work especially the difference
> between tablets and smartphones etc and I think there could be recipes on
> those considerations too.
>
> At the moment there are two different play links and that may still be
> useful even when we have auto-detection in place e.g. the ability to view
> the non-mobile view even on a mobile device.
>
> Roughly 40+ of the Flash page types are already available via the HTML5
> player so there's already plenty of potential for creating engaging and
> interactive cross-platform mobile device compatible LO's.
>
> Exciting stuff indeed!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
> Sent: 27 November 2012 17:29
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: HTML5 starter' video'
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
> --
>
> John Whalley
>
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>
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