ALT-C 2009 presentation – Developing a class room response system for drag and drop activities
Here are my slides from the presentation made at ALT-C 2009 where Dragster 3 was demonstrated as a classroom response system. Thank you to all those who attended and took part!
The activities used in the presentation and the associated recorded results can be viewed here.
New academic year discount offer
To welcome the start of the new academic year Webducate is excited to
offer a 20% discount on all Webducate tool subscriptions purchased
before 30th September 2008.
Dragster 3 – normally £45 NOW £36
Accessible Multimedia Player (AMP) – normally £45 NOW £36
Pollster – normally £22 NOW £17
Additional discounts available on group and site licence purchases. Please contact us for more details.
Dragster 2 available for FREE!
Now with the latest version of Dragster officially released (Dragster 3) we have decided to make access to the previous activity authoring system (Dragster 2) FREE. You can quickly and easily set up your free myWebducate account and start using Dragster 2 now…
LearnHigher website of the month!
The group work video website which has been developed with a consortium of Universities has been nominated LearnHigher website of the month for November. This is despite the fact it is still under development with key materials due to be added over the coming months.
(View the group work video website)
New pollster functionality
One problem with running asynchronous on-line activities such as polls or discussions is the need to regularly re-visit the site to view any new additions. Also the first few participants don’t get the benefit of seeing the responses of the rest of the class, unless they actively choose to return to the site later.
To address these problems an RSS feed facility has been added to Pollster so you can now easily keep track of all your poll activity without having to login to myWebducate or visit the poll results pages. Also you can now choose to publish this feed URL on the poll results page so participants can also subscribe and so track later responses in the poll.
New look for AMP
The AMP player has been updated following user feedback with a new look. Other issues addressed include:
- Slide and video magnification now maintains aspect ratio.
- The position of the video and slide magnification buttons have been reversed.
View examples of the new look player in use on the AMP page…
AMP Launched
AMP, our accessible multimedia player, was released today. It is a simple web based authoring system and player that synchronizes slide images and transcript text with segments of video and/or audio. The authoring tool incorporates the production of an accessible alternative to the presentation. This provides a screen reader friendly version that can also be printed and is available to low bandwidth users.
Features include:
- Facilitates the production of an accessible alternative for a multimedia presentation including long descriptions for images and transcripts for audio.
- Player provides keyboard short-cuts for mouse-free use.
- Simple web based authoring requires no installation of authoring tool.
- Delivery via the Flash player plug-in provides cross-platform compatibility and facilitates the streaming of media without needing a streaming server.
- Alternative version appropriate for printing and low bandwidth users.
- Synchronises both audio and video with slide images and transcript text.
- Slide and video magnification provided within the player.
- Ability to provide presenter details, presentation summary and links to related information.
