Alex Little

Been a bit slack this week in keeping this diary thingy up to date, but here’s roughly what I’ve done…..

• All upgraded to Jboss 3.2.3 so have created virtual directories for storing the images and the resources for each of the runs
• Updated the XSL stylesheet a little so that there’s no one which doesn;t use the iframes, but puts logos of the resource and links through to them
• Had a little trouble with outputting the environment tree. Not totally sure why this is, it seems to work to start with and the gets an exception, which I can’t work out if it’s from CopperCore or from what I’ve been doing. I suspect it’s more likely it’s something I’ve done
• Got a space on Sourceforge sorted out (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldplayer/) – there’s not much there at the moment – there’s not even anything to download yet!
• Been searching for some more demo or example LD content – of which I can’t find execpt for the Versailles Experience, which is the one I’m already using. The examples from the IMS site (http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/index.cfm) aren’t full packages as the don’t include the resources, so CopperCore won’t validate them when uploaded…
• Had a think about how to create the LD authoring wizard. I don;t think this should be too hard providing I keep to using a set of existing templates and allowing users to just ‘fill in the blanks’, instead of creating a tool which will all users to do anything they want with Learning Design.
• Also been reading the Best Practice and Implementation Guide (http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/ldv1p0/imsld_bestv1p0.html) to get some more ideas about what the player should be doing.