StoryWeb Community http://www.storyweb.org/blog for educators and developers of PrimaryAccess and DigitalStoryteller Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:52:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en © 2003-2006 spring@virginia.edu () spring@virginia.edu Education 1440 StoryWeb Community StoryWeb Community spring@virginia.edu No no http://www.digitalstoryteller.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg StoryWeb Community http://www.storyweb.org/blog 144 144 © 2003-2006EducationEducation/Education TechnologyEducation/Higher Education PPT used at NECC 2009 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=57 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=57#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:52:12 +0000 Tom Hammond http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=57 …is available here. Note that, after presenting, I’d recommend a very different approach for explaining things. Either

  1.  Tell the story chronologically — start with PrimaryAccess movie maker, then move along,  or
  2. Start with the database of images, then show the different ways that they can be used.
]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=57 ...is available here. Note that, after presenting, I'd recommend a very different approach for explaining things. Either  Tell the story chronologically -- start with PrimaryAccess movie ... ...is available here. Note that, after presenting, I'd recommend a very different approach for explaining things. Either  Tell the story chronologically -- start with PrimaryAccess movie maker, then move along,  or Start with the database of images, then show the different ways that they can be used. Community spring@virginia.edu no No New version online… http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=56 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=56#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:58:13 +0000 Bill Ferster http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=56 I’ve put up a new version of PrimaryAccess up.

1. The first time a student logs on, they are asked to choose the activity from the list, as it does now. They are ordered last to first.

2. Each subsequent time they log in, that same activity is automatically loaded (although they can load a different activity if they wish by click on the “Load Activity” button).

3. Each time a student logs in, the most recently saved version is loaded, be that a deliberate save by pressing the “Save” button, or an automatic undo save that occurs every 4 minutes.

4. Titles now have a drop shadow for better readability.

5. New narration recording library (should have no bad effects).

-Bill

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=56 I've put up a new version of PrimaryAccess up. 1. The first time a student logs on, they are asked to choose the activity from the ... I've put up a new version of PrimaryAccess up. 1. The first time a student logs on, they are asked to choose the activity from the list, as it does now. They are ordered last to first. 2. Each subsequent time they log in, that same activity is automatically loaded (although they can load a different activity if they wish by click on the “Load Activity” button). 3. Each time a student logs in, the most recently saved version is loaded, be that a deliberate save by pressing the “Save” button, or an automatic undo save that occurs every 4 minutes. 4. Titles now have a drop shadow for better readability. 5. New narration recording library (should have no bad effects). -Bill Development spring@virginia.edu no No PrimaryAccess activity/version loading… http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=55 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=55#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:09:20 +0000 Bill Ferster http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=55 People have complained about the complicated loading of activities and versions in PA, so how about this as a workflow:

1. The first time a student logs on, they are asked to choose the activity from the list, as it does now. They are ordered last to first.

2. Each subsequent time they log in, that same activity is automatically loaded (although they can load a different activity if they wish by click on the “Load Activity” button).

3. Each time a student logs in, the most recently saved version is loaded, be that a deliberate save by pressing the “Save” button, or an automatic undo save that occurs every 4 minutes.

I don’t see any downsides to this and it will hopefully streamline the process so kids don’t lose their work, but I may have missed some scenario or other.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this ASAP.

Thanks,

Bill

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=55 People have complained about the complicated loading of activities and versions in PA, so how about this as a workflow: 1. The first time a student ... People have complained about the complicated loading of activities and versions in PA, so how about this as a workflow: 1. The first time a student logs on, they are asked to choose the activity from the list, as it does now. They are ordered last to first. 2. Each subsequent time they log in, that same activity is automatically loaded (although they can load a different activity if they wish by click on the "Load Activity" button). 3. Each time a student logs in, the most recently saved version is loaded, be that a deliberate save by pressing the "Save" button, or an automatic undo save that occurs every 4 minutes. I don’t see any downsides to this and it will hopefully streamline the process so kids don’t lose their work, but I may have missed some scenario or other. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this ASAP. Thanks, Bill Development spring@virginia.edu no No Caching of images/sound on show playbacks… http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=54 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=54#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:19:35 +0000 Bill Ferster http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=54 I’m allowing the browser to cache images and sound files when playing back movies using the show.php method. This should make it faster to play movies once they have been loaded.
Let me know if there are any problems.

-Bill

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=54 I'm allowing the browser to cache images and sound files when playing back movies using the show.php method. This should make it faster to play ... I'm allowing the browser to cache images and sound files when playing back movies using the show.php method. This should make it faster to play movies once they have been loaded. Let me know if there are any problems. -Bill Community spring@virginia.edu no No “Remove new pix” confirmation http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=53 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=53#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:57:58 +0000 Dennis Pipes http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=53 Would it be possible to have a confirmation dialog box appear before executing the “remove new pix” option on the Find tab? This was requested by a teacher working with the Teaching with Primary Sources summer school program in Fairfax.

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=53 Would it be possible to have a confirmation dialog box appear before executing the "remove new pix" option on the Find tab? This was requested ... Would it be possible to have a confirmation dialog box appear before executing the "remove new pix" option on the Find tab? This was requested by a teacher working with the Teaching with Primary Sources summer school program in Fairfax. PrimaryAccess, Development spring@virginia.edu no No Thumbnail display in My Folder http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=52 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=52#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:39:20 +0000 Dennis Pipes http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=52 Now that movie-makers are able to set “default” pans/zooms for images they add to My Folder, it would be nice if the thumbnail for the image reflected the Start of that pan/zoom. Currently, it appears that the thumbnail image is determined by a set upper-left point ignoring any negative space in the image.

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=52 Now that movie-makers are able to set "default" pans/zooms for images they add to My Folder, it would be nice if the thumbnail for the ... Now that movie-makers are able to set "default" pans/zooms for images they add to My Folder, it would be nice if the thumbnail for the image reflected the Start of that pan/zoom. Currently, it appears that the thumbnail image is determined by a set upper-left point ignoring any negative space in the image. PrimaryAccess, Development spring@virginia.edu no No Student logs active… http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=51 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=51#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 20:00:47 +0000 Bill Ferster http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=51 Any movies from now (2pm EST 5/12/08) are instrumented and will produce activity logs. The teacher’s class list has a new button aside the “View” button called “Log” which will show this log, or you can see it by going to www.primaryaccess.org/log.php

-Bill

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=51 Any movies from now (2pm EST 5/12/08) are instrumented and will produce activity logs. The teacher's class list has a new button aside the "View" ... Any movies from now (2pm EST 5/12/08) are instrumented and will produce activity logs. The teacher's class list has a new button aside the "View" button called "Log" which will show this log, or you can see it by going to www.primaryaccess.org/log.php -Bill Community spring@virginia.edu no No Audio clips in activities… http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=50 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=50#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 16:36:52 +0000 Bill Ferster http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=50 The teacher side will now let you add audio clips to activities, where they will show up in student’s Find panel lists. If they bring up the details of an audio clip, the button’s name will say “Add as music” instead of “Add to Folder” and clicking on it will load that clip as the music clip.

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=50 The teacher side will now let you add audio clips to activities, where they will show up in student's Find panel lists. If they bring ... The teacher side will now let you add audio clips to activities, where they will show up in student's Find panel lists. If they bring up the details of an audio clip, the button's name will say "Add as music" instead of "Add to Folder" and clicking on it will load that clip as the music clip. Community spring@virginia.edu no No Student activity log viewer… http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=49 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=49#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 21:57:49 +0000 Bill Ferster http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=49 I’ve put up a prototype for showing the student activity logs. Right now I have just put some sample data in, as it will take time to instrument all of PA’s events, but I wanted to get a start on the viewer, that a teacher could use to get some insights on how the student moved through PA, and help with heir assessment.

I’ve put up a few stats that can be gleaned from the log, but any suggestiions for useful displays (thanks to Google charts API) , summary, descriptive, or calculated from the logs. The raw data can be cut and pasted to Excel or SPSS for more sophisticated analysis.

http://www.primaryaccess.org/log.php

The only user name that has any data is “guest” for now.

I think if we can come up with information useful to teachers, this will be a valuable aid in assessing PA movies. We can then try our some automated assessments of the raw data using Bayesian statistics once there is a big-enough training pool.

-Bill

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=49 I've put up a prototype for showing the student activity logs. Right now I have just put some sample data in, as it will take ... I've put up a prototype for showing the student activity logs. Right now I have just put some sample data in, as it will take time to instrument all of PA's events, but I wanted to get a start on the viewer, that a teacher could use to get some insights on how the student moved through PA, and help with heir assessment. I've put up a few stats that can be gleaned from the log, but any suggestiions for useful displays (thanks to Google charts API) , summary, descriptive, or calculated from the logs. The raw data can be cut and pasted to Excel or SPSS for more sophisticated analysis. http://www.primaryaccess.org/log.php The only user name that has any data is "guest" for now. I think if we can come up with information useful to teachers, this will be a valuable aid in assessing PA movies. We can then try our some automated assessments of the raw data using Bayesian statistics once there is a big-enough training pool. -Bill Community spring@virginia.edu no No Feature Request http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=47 http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=47#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:17:17 +0000 Brendan Downey http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?p=47 This problem keeps cropping up with users:

After creating a class and activity, students are not associated with an activity.

Recently one teacher mistakenly placed the activity name under Class Description. Therefore, she thought that she had defaulted the whole class to that particular activity.

This made me think: shouldn’t all members of a newly-created Class auto-inherit a default activity number? Would it be possible to add a Class option like “default class activity=” and then have that selection default to the most recently created activity made by that teacher? This way, all students in a class become associated with an activity even if the teacher does not happen to designate which activity that is…

Class Options

]]> http://www.storyweb.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=47 This problem keeps cropping up with users: After creating a class and activity, students are not associated with an activity. Recently one teacher mistakenly placed ... This problem keeps cropping up with users: After creating a class and activity, students are not associated with an activity. Recently one teacher mistakenly placed the activity name under Class Description. Therefore, she thought that she had defaulted the whole class to that particular activity. This made me think: shouldn't all members of a newly-created Class auto-inherit a default activity number? Would it be possible to add a Class option like "default class activity=" and then have that selection default to the most recently created activity made by that teacher? This way, all students in a class become associated with an activity even if the teacher does not happen to designate which activity that is... DigitalStoryteller, Development spring@virginia.edu no No nonadultStoryWeb Community