faculty demo / redesign
May 14, 2012
So I made a redesign of a website that one of our programs uses with its students. The site is poorly constructed and not very useful
http://depts.washington.edu/physdx/heart/demo.html
Hope there're no UW people here 
I "repackaged" the sounds into a SL, through in a randomizing draw quiz, and the faculty I showed loved it! They even wanted to use it for this past weekend, so I polished it up a bit more and gave it to them.
The hardest part was getting the currently playing sounds to stop when the user clicks for another sound, especially in the heart murmur section, where there are at least 10. I had to put a stop medial for all sounds on each button, then a play medial at the end. Back in the day when I programmed in Flash, I could just create a function for it. Of course, I probably could have done one button with all the triggers and just duplicated it, but I already had all the buttons set up by there!
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James, thats is nice thanks for sharing, if you had put the sounds on seperate layers you, dont need any logic to stop the previous sound. all you need is to ensre the layer is set to close all other layers
Thanks, Phil! That would have been a lot easier
I didn't add the text layers until the polishing, but they would have been a great fit there. I'll be tucking that away into the ol knowledge bank :)
Nice job, James! Thanks for sharing it. I really like how you simplified the navigation and made the clips so much easier to find and play. Great work!
James, what a difference! In terms of instructional design and learning, this allows the Learner to concentrate on the content. There was so much going on in the original that interfered with learning and contributed to cognitive overload. Really good example/nonexample!
Thanks to you both!
That original was horrible! Looks out of the geocities era as well
James this is really great! It's like a heartbeat soundboard
Not knowing anything about the topic, I'm not sure if an image of each sound's waveform might also help visualize the differences.
What a great project!
Thanks, Dave
the sounds are for pharmacists learning to do physical assessments. I think the goal is just to get them to recognize something is wrong and not necessarily diagnose. They're pharmacists, after all
I have convinced some faculty to let me make some virtual patient interactions. I have a mock-up of one on another thread. Should be fun!
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