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[Silverberg Gymnasium]

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Am 01.06.2005 um 20:00 schrieb Marielle Lange:

> You mean, something like this: 
> <http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ligcon.html>
>
> Ron, is your code available?  I would like to have access to the stack 
> of a compiled form (I am mac user, as you) to be able to make a 
> demo... this is really impressive. How long did it take to write?
>
> Did you also see the new version of the scripter scrapbook 
> <http://www.flexiblelearning.com/ssbk.htm>... hum, will be fee-paying 
> now... but what another impressive demo of revolution's potential.
>
>
> Ho, about the scorm & ims project, I added files with templates for 
> the exercises as well as for the scorm/ims/web export. They can be 
> found at: <http://revolution.lexicall.org/projects/ims/>
>
> This come from this: <http://exe.cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/>. Following 
> discussion on another mailing list (<http://www.academici.com/>, a new 
> hub of contacts for academics, with forums and a clever contact 
> system, in case viewing is not login protected), I tried that 
> application out. It's Python-based and meant to let you edit 
> multiple-choice questions and other educational content (very limited 
> set) in a gui and export it to ims format. It toke me three hours just 
> to try to get it running...(install file 1 be told about dependency x, 
> install dependency x, be told about dependency y, etc.) and at the end 
> it did not work because one of the file dependency was a problem on 
> the mac. I got access to the code though... of which I extracted the 
> important part.
>
> I asked them about adding workflow, adding connection to a bank of 
> question. They told me it would take them too much time (not enough 
> funding).. I bet it doesn't take me more than a week to redo what they 
> have done in 6 months, and only better (using the templates I uploaded 
> on the web whereas they had all these specifications embedded in their 
> application, which means that any change in ims specification would 
> require a developer to step in an change the code).
>
> I told them about revolution :-))))). They asked more questions about 
> it. We may have new lurkers soon :-).
>
> Marielle
>
>
>
>
>>     Since we're brainstorming (kind of cool, since we're all over the 
>> world), how about this?  The student is asked to make a family tree 
>> -- a common assignment grades 2-12 in my part of the world.  They use 
>> an inspiration stack similar to Ron's to create the family tree.  It 
>> has nodes for each family member and links that describe the 
>> relationships.  When the students are done with the family tree, they 
>> create their own Rev stack to tell about the family members.  This 
>> stack is linked to the tree nodes so that when Grandpa's node is 
>> option clicked (or whatever), it launches a picture, an audio of 
>> Grandpa talking about the drought of '57, a field containing the 
>> horse feed recipe, and a whatever else the student can come up with.
>>     This incorporates Ron's ingenious framework, Judy's criteria for 
>> a worthwhile challenge, maybe Marielle's tree structure (as an 
>> alternate view of the family tree), and Lisa's Grandpa.  The second 
>> part could branch into history, science, media studies, language 
>> arts, art history or art production, etc.  Of course, this assumes 
>> that students have access to Rev (though they could do the last part 
>> in another program) and a teacher who could lead them through a 
>> constructivist type project.
>>
>>         Mark G
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, at 06:32 AM, lisa wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Besides the nice thought of having a computer to bring over while
>>> visiting the grandparents and showing Grandpa what I created today
>>> (better yet on Grandpa's computer )... that pulls in a little
>>> research from his time...and might just get him talking about family
>>> history....
>>>
>>>   (like a formula used in the 1920s
>>>   [that I found in an old math book]
>>> to mix a horses' feed [wheat, corn, oats and rye] according to
>>> whether the horse was sedentary or working that day......
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
> Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguistics, Lecturer in Psychology and 
> Informatics
> University of Edinburgh, UK
>
> Homepage:  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/
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