Friday 9 July 04
Here’s the ‘conceptual’ problem I’m having, which may help to explain my options mentioned yesterday:
The problem I’m having is that I can quite see how the user interactions with the services would get passed back and forth to the player. I know that we can use web services, but I’m getting confused as to what the user would actually see on screen when they go off to a forum service for example, and also how I could actually code this. I wonder if someone can help me sort out where I may be getting confused!…
If I take the forum as an example?. If the learning design says that someone needs to post a message to a forum before they can proceed to the next activity, the user will see a link to the forum, but what happens when they click on this link – do they go directly to the tool (eg firstclass) – in which case how does the tool inform the LD player that the user has posted a comment in the relevant forum? Or, when the user clicks on the link to the tool, are they shown an ‘LD player’ version of the tool – in this example the user would see a form to post a message, then when the user clicks submit the message is posted to the firstclass conference via a web service and the LD player would know that the user has posted a message. In this case the tools that are connected to would need to have web service interfaces to them – so doesn?t this limit the tools that can be used with the learning design?
