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Creating Accessible Interactive Learning Materials
February 24th 2010
RSC South West:
Julia Taylor, Noel Davis and Tracey Morris
www.rsc-south-west.ac.uk RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
Learning Aims
Raise awareness of the benefits and encourage the use of accessible authoring tools
• Give an Overview of Xerte• Create a Learning Object• What Next?
Xerte - Benefits
• L earners –– Accessible – User end preferences
• Teachers –Easy to create – uses basic IT skills
• OrganisationLegal obligations – Alternative Formats
FE HE WBL ACL OLAS Diplomas
What’s stopping You?
What you may have
• On the PC/Mac– Adobe CS Products– Microsoft SharePoint Designer– Anybody still have FrontPage?
• On the Network– Moodle with multiple modules– SharePoint with Portal Services (SPPS)– Blackboard with Modules– Content Management System (CMS)
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What else could I have?
• The aspiring geek in us may want...– A scripting language– A database to collect information/answers requested– A server for the above– The skills to put it all together– The time to produce it– The technical support when we are stuck
• All of the above are laudable, but are they scalable and cost effective?
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Why Xerte?
• Long history of development based on original code of Authorware
• Produced by Nottingham University• Nottingham team supported by TechDis
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Examples
Users
• Colour Scheme• Screen Size• Text Font and Size• Text to Speech• Keyboard Accessible Tab - - Space
Keyboard Accessible -Users
Even Drag & Drop• Tab = Select• Space = hold• Tab = Select
Handout Tutorials 10.40am
Tutorials
• Creating your first learning object• Multiple choice page• Drag and Drop• Image Hot spots• Editing, managing and sharing • Categories• Navigatorswww.techdis.ac.uk/getxerte
Coffee break
Create a Xerte LO
MAXOS• Moodle And Xerte On a Stick
11.15
Hands-On Session - MAXOS
Hands-On Session - MAXOS
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11.15 – 12.15
Launch Xerte -11.15
Quitting MAXOS
VERY IMPORTANT!• Close Online Editor Window• STOP MYSQL• STOP APACHE• Close the XAMPP window
BEFORE removing the Memory Stick.
Failure to do so may corrupt the databases
Launch Xerte
11:15 Delegates Create a project
Creating a Project
Edit
Xerte Editor window
Inserting Pages
Inserting Pages
Interactivity
• Multiple Choice/ Stimulating• Drag & Drop labelling• Video/sound/charts• Annotated Diagrams/Hot Spots• Matching Pairs/Timelines• Dialogue and Gap fill• Quizzes
Making Tea Learning object\index.htm Demo
create new pages in MAXOS Xerte LO
1. Learning Object Title
2. PageTitle
3. Title Text
Add an Image
Create a Xerte LO
Xerte workshop resources– Images– Videos– Text
– Copyright Free Resource sheets
11.45
Making Tea
Filling the Kettle
Plug-in the kettle
Pour boiling water
Stir the tea
Tea bag in mug
Demo Simple Time-line Game LO
Storyboards
Create pages in new LO
Create a simple object
• Title page• Graphics Pages with image and text• Add magnifier• Add sound file
Create 3 pages – 45 minutes
Add Images & Sound
Lunch break
Navigating
Multiple Choice
Multiple Choice
• Choose the Multiple Choice questions page• Add a title and instructions
Here is a question to test if you know what the name XERTE stands for.Read the statement opposite and select True or False.
• In the Prompt:
Xerte stands for Xml Editor and Run Time Engine• Single Answer Question• New Option
1.45
Drag & Drop Labelling
• Title the page –StoneHenge• Add text – Match the label to the
highlighted part of the image• Import a picture and Preview it• Add a New Hotspot and add a title• In the Text Area add some text to describe
the picture • Click Edit to position the hotspot frame
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2pm
Adding Multi-media content
2.15pm
Extra Content
• Google Maps• Flickr Slideshow• RSS feeds• Wikipedia Articles• YouTube Videos – feed and embedded• Delicious Bookmarks
Adding YouTube Videos
Summary
• Xerte is ‘Free’• Xerte is easy to use• Staff will already have many of the skills
required• Content is Portable
2.30
Questions?
Download Links• Getting hold of Xerte Online Toolkits• Online toolkits• To install Xerte Toolkits on your own institution’s server.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/xertetoolkits.zip • Searchable Archives on the Xerte discussion list
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/community.htm.
Moodle and Xerte on a stick (MAXOS)• To download to a 2gb memory
http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/Technical/Maxos/Pages/default.aspx
• Sample course http://www.techdis.ac.uk/development/xerte/MAXOS/AMcN_Coasts.zip
• Instructional video http://www.techdis.ac.uk/development/xerte/MAXOS/MOV08378.zip %
What Next?
• Demonstrate Xerte to SMT• Demonstrate Xerte to Staff• Talk to Technical Team
– Download Tool kits– MAXOS– Local Client
Evaluation 3pm