April 22, 2018
Keypad With Shifting Digits
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April 22, 2018
Keypad With Shifting Digits
I am currently a provider of technical training and support in the electronic manufacturing industry. My prior training and work experience as a teacher, network administrator, web design, and instructional design make me well prepared to design it, develop it, and deliver it. I am a father of five, a US Army veteran, and I enjoy playing the guitar as well as performing in local community theater. 
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In this project I will help you to create a keypad where the digits on the display shift to the left as you enter them.

In addition to the digit shifting effect – this keypad also serves as a lock to the next page, so you’ll need to do some beginner puzzle solving to get the right code.

I do use javascript in this project but you can also use advanced actions. However, you would need to spend a lot more time pulling off the display to change states without the concatenation that the javascript provides.

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/captivateshare/keypadLock/index.html

I could see this as a sort of fun way to have younger students key in answers to low level math problems. The pop-up error message could contain specialized feedback. On the corporate side of things, this idea could be modified for equipment training that requires user input.

What things can you think of?

Please feel free to ask any questions that you may have.

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2018-04-23 18:02:31
2018-04-23 18:02:31

I am glad that you liked it, Kirk. I could easily see this as an interactive idea with the SMARTBoard or Promethean systems. HTML5 would make it a bit more compatible too, as opposed to SWF.

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2018-04-23 05:29:46
2018-04-23 05:29:46

Very cool Greg,
5 years ago I taught ESOL/ESL Kindergartens. Expecting kindergartners English language learners to learn a lunch pin of 5 numbers was not realistic-especially at the beginning of the school year. So, we (teachers) would stand at the keypad with the students pin number and punch it in for them as they came to the end of the line. I decided to turn this into a year long lesson with each of my 14 kids having their own Cp interactive whiteboard activity. http://elnewcomers.com/lunchpin/
Your post brought back some great memories and experiences we had with the whole pin number + kindergartners episodes. As well as the initial inspiration I got from Lieve Weymeis’ keypad simulation post on her blog. Perhaps, I’ll have a future project that will prompt me to revisit the interaction using ‘states’ and js. Thanks for your creative inspiration and a intriguing example!

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2018-04-23 05:31:52
2018-04-23 05:31:52
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Oh, I forgot- 12345 is the code for the demo.

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