version notes on RM class
A first version was uploaded to the site, which we'll call 0.1. I made
a few fixes "on the fly" on that one, but now I'm going to list out a
specific set of things for 0.2 and start tracking what gets fixed each
time around...
problems fixed since 0.2
mostly based on Rhonda & students taking the course
- Lesson 2 - link for RM129.mp3 just pointed to "RM129" - added .mp3 (RM)
- Lesson 7 - WORKSHEETS directory hadn't been uploaded - FIXED (RM)
- Lesson 11 - 251, clarified what the measures are - text FIXED (RM)
problems fixed in 0.2
these are fixed locally; make sure they're fixed online!
- add a head/title thing to each lesson
- Lesson names in index now match lesson titles
- Lesson 3 - "here" link needs to go to KbdSharpsNFlats (I think)
- Lesson 3 - "Practice" button near the end changed to "Answers" and we now have
links to a couple of answer sheets. The previous link, to a page of chord
progressions, was wrong...
- Lesson 5 - added text to two "Worksheet" links near the end (to print out
sheet music for a couple songs)
- Lesson 5 - removed link to Practice 5 Lesson; we just reference it as
text for now.
- Lesson 5 - RM183, needs some text
- Lesson 6 - RM195, needs some text
- Practice 6 - C5 link doesn't work, files missing?
- Practice 6 - yellow link to C5 tool under P1T28 not found
- Lesson 7 - yellow link, worksheet and answer link do not work
- Lesson 8 - two yellow links under 220 don't work, slash problem?
- Lesson 11 - variousc lips didn't have text descriptions and the
252 clip was missing its graphic, as well
- Practice 5 - first worksheet link not found (create)
- Practice 9 - maybe add a note that that first worksheet takes a long time
to load ??? Audio clips are big, too, MP3 clips take a while to download, note?
- for each lesson where there is a companion "Practice" lesson (3, 5-9),
there is now a paragraph at the end reminding the studen of these additional
practice lessons. I chose not to do this as a link to the practice lesson,
because right now we don't have "next" sequence buttons, though I suppose we
may have those soon...
problems in v0.2
Note: some of these were noted in v0.1 but fixing them is being put off
until we can think this through some more...
- Lesson 9 - have we already seen "Fools Rush In" by now? - yes, we let
students print out the sheet music in Lesson 5... left as is for now...
- Lesson 11 - clip RM251, I don't think the graphic is what she's playing,
even though she says it goes with 11-5...
- does Lesson 11 need a "Practice Worksheet" for using away from the
computer?
- Practice 6 - first audio clip very short, maybe fold into second one?
- Throughout - default font, spacing (currently looks very ugly in MSIE)
- Throughout - click on MP3 link, can we hide the flash of opening a new window?
- Throughout - a click to the "next" lesson? Is there a way to remember
where you are in the lessons?
- Introduction - review comments about flash player, etc. - no longer apply
to audio players, but maybe a comment about HTML5 needs to be there?
- thing to test - if we also put .wma files in audio objects, would they
work in MSIE ?
- do we need to add some sort of copyright notice to each page?
further down the road
- what if we installed the lessons under eFront, so that we get
traceability (what lesson was I working on?) but the audio files are
not under eFront control? Would we still have the same lockup problems?