<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, clock-watchers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I was mightily interested - and nervous - to see what minimum functionality VCAA would prescribe for the software to create the multimodal online solution (MMOS). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I was concerned that it would mandate a list of functions that would effectively rule out anything but web authoring software - like mummy saying you can have ANY sort of pet, as long as it has four legs, a tail... and it goes 'miaow'.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I have been including slideshows (e.g. Powerpoint) as a possible MMOS authoring tool (in 'kiosk' mode to give the developer full navigation control) and was hoping that the long-awaited mandated functions would not put the kibosh on that option.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Fortunately, Powerpoint slideshows <i>can</i> fulfil all of the the mandated functions...</div><p class=""></p><ul><li><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">import/enter,
edit and format content</font></span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">structure
screen layout</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">create
links</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">provide
navigation</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">create
buttons</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">create
tags (alt tags)</span><br></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">incorporate
images (still and moving), text and sound.</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"></span><br></li></ul><p></p>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">The alt tags might have been the only sticking point, but research proves that Powerpoint can indeed have alt text (titles and descriptions) attached to images. (see screenshot below).</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_ifswi8e00_1506dfda7b049bc0" width="272" height="378"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Mark</span><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i>I'm missing teaching so much that I wrote an app that rings an annoying bell every 45 minutes.</i></div></span></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZNy1KTlhHdGVINWc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZclhYdUpxelZmcmx3amRrYjM1d01mdlJ5WURNPQ"><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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