I have wanted to wrap my screencasts in popcorn.js for the following reasons; i) I felt it would allow me to highlight the important parts of the screencast (oh the fun of popups) ii) display the important links so people could follow them as they were watching / listening to the screencast (thank-you popcorn team I can set a href target) iii) I wanted to highlight what I considered the learning outcomes of the screencast (I know this will grow into a fat footer) iv) I wanted to create a little spambot to email the learner a summary of outcomes, links and resources once they had finished the screencast (when is email going to go away?)
ps... I've added popcorn events to just the first 3 minutes of the screencast. So once through the first three minutes nothing else will be added to the webpage.
On Thursday, 26 July 2012 00:14:28 UTC-7, Peter Rawsthorne wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have wanted to wrap my screencasts in popcorn.js for the following > reasons; > i) I felt it would allow me to highlight the important parts of the > screencast (oh the fun of popups) > ii) display the important links so people could follow them as they were > watching / listening to the screencast (thank-you popcorn team I can set a > href target) > iii) I wanted to highlight what I considered the learning outcomes of the > screencast (I know this will grow into a fat footer) > iv) I wanted to create a little spambot to email the learner a summary of > outcomes, links and resources once they had finished the screencast (when > is email going to go away?)
> http://badges.bit.bc.ca/popcorn1.html - I still haven't tested it against > all browsers and all versions, so the formatting may be a little off...
> ps... I've added popcorn events to just the first 3 minutes of the screencast. So once through the first three minutes nothing else will be added to the webpage.
> On Thursday, 26 July 2012 00:14:28 UTC-7, Peter Rawsthorne wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have wanted to wrap my screencasts in popcorn.js for the following reasons;
> i) I felt it would allow me to highlight the important parts of the screencast (oh the fun of popups)
> ii) display the important links so people could follow them as they were watching / listening to the screencast (thank-you popcorn team I can set a href target)
> iii) I wanted to highlight what I considered the learning outcomes of the screencast (I know this will grow into a fat footer)
> iv) I wanted to create a little spambot to email the learner a summary of outcomes, links and resources once they had finished the screencast (when is email going to go away?)
I can tell you that there are LOTS of non-technical people interested in badging, and I'm confident that the resources you are building will be welcomed.
Took a look and would agree with Kerri that the use of popcorn adds a lot. However, as you suspected there are a series of formatting issues (different ones with different browsers) that seem to be a bit ptoblematic. Here are a few things I've found....
1) It's funky in Chrome, with the popcorn fields truncating the text rather than wrapping and overlapping the primary field.
2) In Firefox it seems to work well, but I'd suggest making the fonts and or real estate assigned to the supplemental windows a bit smaller so that the text in the primary video window is more legible. I realize that there is not time to actually read everything and that that is not the point, but I do think that being able to make out the content better will help maintain interest. (There will be lots of time spent with these videos if people use most of all that you are creating, and you want it to be a high-interest experience.)
3) In Safari one popcorn window seem to function, but one doesn't.
Again, It's a great contribution. Thanks!!
Kyle
Kyle Peck
Professor of Education
Principal Investigator, NASA Aerospace Education Services Project
310 E Keller Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
"No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced and billions and billions of photons may have died along the way."
-Anonymous
On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Peter Rawsthorne wrote:
> I have wanted to wrap my screencasts in popcorn.js for the following reasons;
> i) I felt it would allow me to highlight the important parts of the screencast (oh the fun of popups)
> ii) display the important links so people could follow them as they were watching / listening to the screencast (thank-you popcorn team I can set a href target)
> iii) I wanted to highlight what I considered the learning outcomes of the screencast (I know this will grow into a fat footer)
> iv) I wanted to create a little spambot to email the learner a summary of outcomes, links and resources once they had finished the screencast (when is email going to go away?)
Kyle, Thank-you for the time you spent in creating this feedback. Most appretiated... given you are three hours ahead of me (PST) I think you viewed the popcorn enhanced screencast just as I was playing with the javascripting, css and html5. I was wanting to restructure things a little. Sorry if this altered your experience... next time I will not do development work on my production server. Thanks again for your time and feedback. Sincerely, Peter
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:48:33 AM UTC-7, Kyle wrote:
> Great, Peter.
> I can tell you that there are LOTS of non-technical people interested in > badging, and I'm confident that the resources you are building will be > welcomed.
> Took a look and would agree with Kerri that the use of popcorn adds a lot. > However, as you suspected there are a series of formatting issues > (different ones with different browsers) that seem to be a bit ptoblematic. > Here are a few things I've found....
> 1) It's funky in Chrome, with the popcorn fields truncating the text > rather than wrapping and overlapping the primary field.
> 2) In Firefox it seems to work well, but I'd suggest making the fonts and > or real estate assigned to the supplemental windows a bit smaller so that > the text in the primary video window is more legible. I realize that there > is not time to actually read everything and that that is not the point, but > I do think that being able to make out the content better will help > maintain interest. (There will be lots of time spent with these videos if > people use most of all that you are creating, and you want it to be a > high-interest experience.)
> 3) In Safari one popcorn window seem to function, but one doesn't.
> Again, It's a great contribution. Thanks!!
> Kyle
> Kyle Peck > Professor of Education > Principal Investigator, NASA Aerospace Education Services Project > 310 E Keller Building > Penn State University > University Park, PA 16802
> "No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number > of electrons were terribly inconvenienced and billions and billions of > photons may have died along the way."
> -Anonymous
> On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Peter Rawsthorne wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have wanted to wrap my screencasts in popcorn.js for the following > reasons; > i) I felt it would allow me to highlight the important parts of the > screencast (oh the fun of popups) > ii) display the important links so people could follow them as they were > watching / listening to the screencast (thank-you popcorn team I can set a > href target) > iii) I wanted to highlight what I considered the learning outcomes of the > screencast (I know this will grow into a fat footer) > iv) I wanted to create a little spambot to email the learner a summary of > outcomes, links and resources once they had finished the screencast (when > is email going to go away?)
> http://badges.bit.bc.ca/popcorn1.html - I still haven't tested it against > all browsers and all versions, so the formatting may be a little off...
