{"id":1204,"date":"2016-04-29T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/learning-technology\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:46:55","slug":"xerte-conference-2016-by-dewi-post13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/xerte-conference-2016-by-dewi-post13\/","title":{"rendered":"Xerte Conference 2016 by Dewi (Post1\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dewiparry_LT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dewi Parry<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1213\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/xerte-conference-2016-by-dewi-post13\/dewi1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2016\/04\/dewi1.gif\" data-orig-size=\"300,216\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LO1\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;image of a xerte object&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2016\/04\/dewi1.gif\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1213 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/learning-technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2016\/04\/dewi1-300x216.gif\" alt=\"image of a xerte object\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, a few of us attended the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/xot.xerte.org.uk\/play.php?template_id=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Xerte Conference 2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, hosted by Nottingham University. As we\u2019ve mentioned here on the blog, Xerte Online Toolkits is now a supported service within the University, which enables you to create accessible learning objects online for use in your teaching. We\u2019ve also mentioned that we are now working with Ron Mitchell (Mr Xerte!), who is our consultant for Xerte, and has very much been a part of the Xerte development team from day 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve been using Xerte since 2012\/13, where I originally used v2.0 to create learning objects for a blended learning course I was working on. The bonus at the time was the ability to create learning objects quickly in HTML5 as opposed to Flash, and the fact that it was already installed on the server here at Cardiff, thanks to Simon and then Jin &#8211; so there was no need to pay a fortune for a licence! <em>(Adobe were just bringing in their pay per month creative cloud, which had us all up in arms \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve written a bit about what we learned from the conference, as a series of blog posts. Take a look at the conference resources, and also a recent post by Catherine Emmett, who\u00a0shares her new tutorial resource to help you get started:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/learning-technology\/2016\/04\/29\/xerte-conference-2016-by-karl-post33\/\">Karl&#8217;s Xerte conference blog post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/learning-technology\/2016\/04\/29\/xerte-conference-2016-by-jin-post23\/\">Jin&#8217;s Xerte conference blog post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xot.xerte.org.uk\/play.php?template_id=1#page4section5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Xerte conference workshop details and resources (main website)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xot.xerte.org.uk\/play.php?template_id=1#page4section5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The event capture videos for all the conference presentations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/learning-technology\/2016\/04\/22\/all-about-xerte-new-tutorial-resource\/\">Catherine&#8217;s tutorial resources post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Themes, colours and easy customisations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Fay Cross<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/toolkits\/play_14511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Presentation<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lecturecapture.nottingham.ac.uk:8443\/ess\/echo\/presentation\/5b34ced9-0dc4-4f1d-919d-00fb7d488543?ec=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Event Capture<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I attended quite a few sessions during the conference where I picked up tips around using Xerte. \u00a0I think the session I gained the most from was the \u201cThemes, colours and easy customisations\u201d session, presented by Fay Cross. The session focused on quick and easy ways to customise the look and feel of your Xerte projects &#8211; something we are asked quite a bit during sessions, with staff wanting to brand or individualise their learning objects. Fay took us through what you can do with the new WYSIWIG editor, which for me is the greatest improvement of the recent upgrade (to version 3). Good practice tips around text and images were also helpful, as were optional properties, theme possibilities and CSS customisations. L<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">uckily, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/toolkits\/play_14511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presentation is live<\/a>, so you can understand the features too (built in Xerte obviously!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Students as Producers of Digital History: Using Xerte at the University of Lincoln <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kerry Pinny, Diane Ranyard, Alastair Codling<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xerte.lncd.lincoln.ac.uk\/play.php?template_id=6452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Presentation<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/makingdigitalhistory.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project website<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lecturecapture.nottingham.ac.uk:8443\/ess\/echo\/presentation\/a7c596eb-9eba-4276-82cc-a089842397aa?ec=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Event capture<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really enjoyed the session by the University of Lincoln, who were presenting about \u201cThe Making Digital History project in the School of History and Heritage\u201d. The project i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nvolved students producing Xerte resources in order to teach others, which is something we also do here at Cardiff, with Joe Nicholls and Catherine Emmett leading the way. I was particularly interested in the student ambassador role, where a PhD student was involved in the technical training of students through workshops, providing drop in sessions and general technical support for the project. The session also touched on practical problems they encountered with the project &#8211; with the ambassador role; the problems with University IT departments and upgrading the software; the pros and cons of Xerte etc. This was informative for me as I am often asked about the problems of using technology for teaching, and it was refreshing to hear people speaking honestly about their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Dewi Parry This year, a few of us attended the Xerte Conference 2016, hosted by Nottingham University. 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