A quick post, with promises of more frequent posts to come…

The staff development course in late June/early July went well, with a small group of staff members from across the University using eXe to create engaging online tutorials. I’m also introducing eXe later on this week to my Italian teacher, who had signed up to the course but could not attend. On the basis of the course and of the 1:1 sessions, I’ll be producing an introduction to eXe tutorials as an eXe tutorial – much like Shakespeare’s plays within plays – and improving the way I’ve been noting the best practice of using eXe for learning & teaching purposes.

From the work I do (outside this project) with colleges partnered with the University, I’ve found out that the e-Learning Coordinator at Swindon College is enthusiastic about endorsing Xerte to lecturers and tutors there. He has had fundamental difficulties with the server-based toolkits installation (which is what we are testing here), but uses the standalone version. One of the lecturers is keen to use activities revolving around images with hotspots – beyond the current version of eXe but certainly possible in Xerte. So I will be resuming my inspection of Xerte – at least for this purpose, and perhaps more widely.