Re: [Flashcoders] XML for course delivery
There are 2 places that are under development so are open for anyone. These are both setup as SCORM courses which makes for a less than fun experience but it is a "standard". The first is under revision so we are not as happy with the current contents. We did not do the instructional design and it was the first project for the person who did it (the subject matter expert). 1) www.iiggm.net with user "default" and password "user". Click on eLearning and take the only course available. The material is pretty dry and some of the SCOs are too small. It is almost completely done with templates. There are no custom animations. 2) www.edu-solution.net with user djeckyll and password "mrhyde". This is in French but you can try the course on "purgeurs" (steam traps). It has both timeline animations and templated animations. You can also see screenshots on our web site in the case study area. Coastal was a lot of fun and has lots of fun graphics and animations. Ron nik crosina wrote: Ron, This could definitely be of interest to me and my client. Do you have a site on-line that is using this for some touch and feel experience? Nik On 7/3/07, Giles Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This was set-up a while ago: http://osflash.org/edumatic but has been silent for a while. Maybe your system could help inject some life back into it??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler Sent: 03 July 2007 16:34 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] XML for course delivery I just wanted to let you know that we have a course delivery application that we wrote about 4 years ago in Flash using XML to control the delivery of material. It uses a few XML files to control the flow. The first is a company file that controls skinning for different customers (logos, colours, etc.). It also controls administrative behaviour that is common to all courses for that company (logon required, format of usernames for validation, where to find the list of valid users-if required, administrator's e-mail for sending out test results, etc.) Each course is controlled by a chapter file that lists each chapter and tells the system where to find the chapter assets. This helps partition the course assets into manageable chunks. Our courses tend to be long with 2 to 5 chapters each with 30-80 slides(pages). Chapters may be created in parallel so it also helps keep the integrators from stepping on each other's toes. The main file (pages file) controls the delivery of content. Each slide (page) has a basic structure that is the same for all types of pages. Pages are identified as content, test - formative(immediate feedback) or summative (exam), control pages(dummy pages that signal something like "chapter end"). Simple pages look a bit like your proposed structure (except for duration - we get that from the sound file). For more interesting interaction, a page can call up a template which is run as a sub-function and accesses its own custom datastructure which is stored as a sub-node under the main page node. This is used to implement tests (multiple choice, matching, custom flash interactions, etc.) or slides with timed appearance of bullets and images. This allows us to make courses that look like custom timeline animations just by putting information in XML that says "at 10 seconds into the narration show this picture(jpg or swf), and at 15 seconds display this text in 14 point Arial, green and bold and at 25 second replace the image with this one". The test templates can communicate their final test results back to the main flow which builds up a history that can be sent to the administrator at the end of the test. This returning XML structure includes the grade and the text that the test generated which typically describes what happened in a wrong answer. The main flow has no idea about the information, its only job is to save it and produce a final e-mail. The e-mail is sent through our server so that the person only needs HTTP access through their company firewall and does not even need e-mail on their PC - greatly simplifies administration; the student can work from work or home without .having to do any setup. We use XML internally to pass information around between objects. XML is easy to parse and whole sub-nodes can be easily extracted and sent to another object without knowing what is in it. This tends to make each object much simpler and less dependent on its friends. It has been used for all sorts of courses in French and English. We are selling an Explosives Technician's pre-course that we did for the RCMP. It is also used by Canadian Forces to train IEDD specialists. We have done a few technical courses in the petrochemical area including Pumps, Steam Traps, Work Permits and a ISO-14001 Awareness course. We have done a course on Public Participation for municipal managers and elected officials. It is very flexible in a wide
Re: [Flashcoders] XML for course delivery
Ron, This could definitely be of interest to me and my client. Do you have a site on-line that is using this for some touch and feel experience? Nik On 7/3/07, Giles Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This was set-up a while ago: http://osflash.org/edumatic but has been silent for a while. Maybe your system could help inject some life back into it??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler Sent: 03 July 2007 16:34 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] XML for course delivery I just wanted to let you know that we have a course delivery application that we wrote about 4 years ago in Flash using XML to control the delivery of material. It uses a few XML files to control the flow. The first is a company file that controls skinning for different customers (logos, colours, etc.). It also controls administrative behaviour that is common to all courses for that company (logon required, format of usernames for validation, where to find the list of valid users-if required, administrator's e-mail for sending out test results, etc.) Each course is controlled by a chapter file that lists each chapter and tells the system where to find the chapter assets. This helps partition the course assets into manageable chunks. Our courses tend to be long with 2 to 5 chapters each with 30-80 slides(pages). Chapters may be created in parallel so it also helps keep the integrators from stepping on each other's toes. The main file (pages file) controls the delivery of content. Each slide (page) has a basic structure that is the same for all types of pages. Pages are identified as content, test - formative(immediate feedback) or summative (exam), control pages(dummy pages that signal something like "chapter end"). Simple pages look a bit like your proposed structure (except for duration - we get that from the sound file). For more interesting interaction, a page can call up a template which is run as a sub-function and accesses its own custom datastructure which is stored as a sub-node under the main page node. This is used to implement tests (multiple choice, matching, custom flash interactions, etc.) or slides with timed appearance of bullets and images. This allows us to make courses that look like custom timeline animations just by putting information in XML that says "at 10 seconds into the narration show this picture(jpg or swf), and at 15 seconds display this text in 14 point Arial, green and bold and at 25 second replace the image with this one". The test templates can communicate their final test results back to the main flow which builds up a history that can be sent to the administrator at the end of the test. This returning XML structure includes the grade and the text that the test generated which typically describes what happened in a wrong answer. The main flow has no idea about the information, its only job is to save it and produce a final e-mail. The e-mail is sent through our server so that the person only needs HTTP access through their company firewall and does not even need e-mail on their PC - greatly simplifies administration; the student can work from work or home without .having to do any setup. We use XML internally to pass information around between objects. XML is easy to parse and whole sub-nodes can be easily extracted and sent to another object without knowing what is in it. This tends to make each object much simpler and less dependent on its friends. It has been used for all sorts of courses in French and English. We are selling an Explosives Technician's pre-course that we did for the RCMP. It is also used by Canadian Forces to train IEDD specialists. We have done a few technical courses in the petrochemical area including Pumps, Steam Traps, Work Permits and a ISO-14001 Awareness course. We have done a course on Public Participation for municipal managers and elected officials. It is very flexible in a wide variety of application areas. It has proven to be extremely robust in the field running over LAN, off of CD-ROM and over the Internet through an LMS. It can be run as a SCORM compliant content. I am not a big fan of SCORM but ??? We are thinking about making it open source, if there is some interest. We have also done another application involving a medium sized database stored in XML delivered on standalone CD-ROM which allowed first responders to quickly find information and photos about the Personal Protective Equipment used by all first responders in the city. (from gas masks to sun-screen). We have never had any problems with XML with any recent version of Flash so I think that you will be OK. Ron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Traini
RE: [Flashcoders] XML for course delivery
This was set-up a while ago: http://osflash.org/edumatic but has been silent for a while. Maybe your system could help inject some life back into it??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler Sent: 03 July 2007 16:34 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] XML for course delivery I just wanted to let you know that we have a course delivery application that we wrote about 4 years ago in Flash using XML to control the delivery of material. It uses a few XML files to control the flow. The first is a company file that controls skinning for different customers (logos, colours, etc.). It also controls administrative behaviour that is common to all courses for that company (logon required, format of usernames for validation, where to find the list of valid users-if required, administrator's e-mail for sending out test results, etc.) Each course is controlled by a chapter file that lists each chapter and tells the system where to find the chapter assets. This helps partition the course assets into manageable chunks. Our courses tend to be long with 2 to 5 chapters each with 30-80 slides(pages). Chapters may be created in parallel so it also helps keep the integrators from stepping on each other's toes. The main file (pages file) controls the delivery of content. Each slide (page) has a basic structure that is the same for all types of pages. Pages are identified as content, test - formative(immediate feedback) or summative (exam), control pages(dummy pages that signal something like "chapter end"). Simple pages look a bit like your proposed structure (except for duration - we get that from the sound file). For more interesting interaction, a page can call up a template which is run as a sub-function and accesses its own custom datastructure which is stored as a sub-node under the main page node. This is used to implement tests (multiple choice, matching, custom flash interactions, etc.) or slides with timed appearance of bullets and images. This allows us to make courses that look like custom timeline animations just by putting information in XML that says "at 10 seconds into the narration show this picture(jpg or swf), and at 15 seconds display this text in 14 point Arial, green and bold and at 25 second replace the image with this one". The test templates can communicate their final test results back to the main flow which builds up a history that can be sent to the administrator at the end of the test. This returning XML structure includes the grade and the text that the test generated which typically describes what happened in a wrong answer. The main flow has no idea about the information, its only job is to save it and produce a final e-mail. The e-mail is sent through our server so that the person only needs HTTP access through their company firewall and does not even need e-mail on their PC - greatly simplifies administration; the student can work from work or home without .having to do any setup. We use XML internally to pass information around between objects. XML is easy to parse and whole sub-nodes can be easily extracted and sent to another object without knowing what is in it. This tends to make each object much simpler and less dependent on its friends. It has been used for all sorts of courses in French and English. We are selling an Explosives Technician's pre-course that we did for the RCMP. It is also used by Canadian Forces to train IEDD specialists. We have done a few technical courses in the petrochemical area including Pumps, Steam Traps, Work Permits and a ISO-14001 Awareness course. We have done a course on Public Participation for municipal managers and elected officials. It is very flexible in a wide variety of application areas. It has proven to be extremely robust in the field running over LAN, off of CD-ROM and over the Internet through an LMS. It can be run as a SCORM compliant content. I am not a big fan of SCORM but ??? We are thinking about making it open source, if there is some interest. We have also done another application involving a medium sized database stored in XML delivered on standalone CD-ROM which allowed first responders to quickly find information and photos about the Personal Protective Equipment used by all first responders in the city. (from gas masks to sun-screen). We have never had any problems with XML with any recent version of Flash so I think that you will be OK. Ron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription opt
