Hi, The map card type is just the 2.0 version of Tim's svgtoquiz functionality, with the image overlay described near the end:
http://www.tbrk.org/software/svgtoquiz.html As for your orienteering symbols, I would just use front-to-back and back-to- front for that. Cheers, Peter On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 09:50:31 AM Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I would be interested to hear views on how to use Mnemosyne 2.x for learning > map symbols and control descriptions as used in orienteering competitions. > Examples of what I mean can be found in this pdf document: > > > http://orienteering.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IOF-Control-Descriptions- > 2004.pdf > > My first question relates to the Map plugin. I don't really understand how > it's supposed to work. Can anyone clarify? I assumed it would operate a bit > like a graphical version of cloze-deletion but the production of sister > cards has confused me. In my brief test, the blank map and filled map seemed > the wrong way round. > > When I've used graphics before (e.g. for learning the botanic parts of > plants) I've used the gimp 'smudge' tool to smudge out the area of the image > I wished to test myself on (hence my analogy with a text-style > cloze-deletion), then as the answer either: > > 1. Provide the simple text answer; e.g. "Stigma" ... or > 2. Provide the image again, but with the area of interest unsmudged. > > I'm curious if either method is considered 'better', and of-course, I'm not > sure how Mnemosyne will handle all those image files under the hood. For > instance, if I use the same, unsmudged, image as the answer for multiple > questions, will the image be duplicated, or will Mnemosyne just store one > copy. > > At the moment my thinking is to use this method of the orienteering symbols. > I intend to take a screen shot of certain bite-sized sections of the > symbols, corresponding to the natural sections of the document, then > selectively smudge out the descriptions (answers) to each control symbol. > At the moment I can't decide whether to use a simple text answer, or to use > an unsmudged version of the image. Using the latter is actually easier in > terms of speed of adding new cards. > > Rather than re-invent the wheel, I'd be interested to know if anyone does > something similar, and what the science suggests is the most efficient > learning method. > > Dougie -- Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
