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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

10:30 Run through demo 10 mins

What does it do?

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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

http://www.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