Hi All, In addition to the new idevices I have just got an export to xol file option - working on making a .xo activity export as well:
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/05/25/afghanistan-tools-for-interactive-content/ Regards, -Mike On 25 May 2010 11:24, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > Thank you for reminding me about the eXe editor. I looked at it a few years > ago. > I agree its a powerful tool for creating educational content. It is pretty > easy to use although it could be easier to get started with. I find the > "devices" labeling a bit confusing. It took me quite a while to find out > that I don't use any of the many options in the eXe to embed audio, rather > its a button on the rich text editor. Everything is pretty easy once you > figure out how to use it. > A group in Spain has created accessibility and html validator plugins that > use tinymce. > Another flexible option of ExE is it can create SCROM packages that can be > loaded into Moodle courses. I am going to try using it for one of our > commercial projects. > Thanks! > Caroline > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Mike Dawson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Dear List, >> >> One of the greatest challenges here in deployments has been to create >> sufficient curriculum *interactive* educational content. Though >> Scratch and Etoys are great for simulators for many common educational >> interaction formats (e.g. assemble objects, click in place according >> to hint in order, memory match, hangman, sorting items etc) using such >> tools can be quite awkward. >> >> eXe Learning was created as a GUI educational XHTML Editor with >> support for fill in the blank question formats, multi choice, multi >> select etc. I have created plugins for Place the objects / label >> (e.g. assembling parts / labelling a diagram), Click in place >> according to a hint, sort objects, hangman, memory match, moving >> object speed answer (e.g. Tuxmath) and sort. The output is generated >> as HTML / Javascript which can run online or offline. I've also >> created a plugin for embedding Scratch using the Scratch Java player >> with an option for the user to download. >> >> There are many repositories of open content; however many of them fail >> to harness the potential of ICT as an interactive medium. Hopefully >> further lowering the barrier can help to create more. This can make >> it far easier to turn existing open static content into interactive >> educational content. >> >> Compared to conventional Javascript / Flash / EToys development this >> dramatically increases the amount of educational interactive content >> that can be produced by given teams in a given amount of time. It >> also can help make creation of interactive educational material far >> easier for educators by templating the kind of interaction they would >> like to produce and allowing them to just plug in the questions, >> answers, images, options of the game etc. >> >> For many parts of the curriculum the best course of action can be to >> embed already created Scratch simulators from the Scratch website >> (e.g. physics sims). With eXe Learning + plugins one can produce a >> complete interactive package that opens in the browser. I am hoping >> to develop a roleplay and generic simple simulator creator in the near >> future. >> >> I have also updated the HTML Editor to enable it to create HTML 5 >> Audio and Video tags for embedding media. >> >> Comments/ Feedback most welcome. The plugins are still 'bleeding >> edge'... Will soon get the sourceforge project properly taken care of >> so that bugs / QA can be taken care of. >> >> For now see http://www.paiwastoon.af/eldep >> >> Regards from Afghanistan, >> >> -Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
