Hey everyone. I am new to the mailing list so please let me know if I am missing something or doing something wrong.
I run the site easy10seconds.com, which is a "video how to" site with the idea of supplying short & free videos for others to link to. I have 3 OOo right now; Calc, Writer & Impress. (http://easy10seconds.com/How-To-Video/OpenOffice.org) I am starting off small and simple and just making short how-to's of the commands in action. Tutorials will most likely come later, but there are usually enough full tutorials out there already. My idea right now is to see if integrating these small videos into a text tutorial might be beneficial to an end user learning the software. For example: Say the section of the how to is talking about "fill a range of cells with data" any word could then be hyperlinked to this video: http://easy10seconds.com/How-To-Videos/OpenOffice.org/Calc/Fill-a-Range-of-Cells-with-Data/video This would allow the user to be able to read over the hyperlinked word if they already know it or click on the link if they would like to see an example of this being done. This could be done for a number of commands or actions, anywhere from "Insert a Column" 11 seconds (http://easy10seconds.com/How-To-Videos/OpenOffice.org/Calc/Insert-a-Column/video) To "Combine Data from Cell Ranges" 16-seconds (http://easy10seconds.com/How-To-Videos/OpenOffice.org/Calc/Combine-Data-from-Cell-Ranges/video) I am open to suggestions & am willing to put in some time to help make more videos if people find it helpful. I have a few more ideas that people might be interested in, one is a "quiz" or "software Training" that makes use of these "Video Hints" in an interactive quiz like format. You can try it out on the home page bottom right (http://easy10seconds.com/) or specific ones: Photoshop (http://easy10seconds.com/Demo/Photoshop-CS4/25/33) Flash (http://easy10seconds.com/Demo/Flash-CS4/59/40) PowerPoint (http://easy10seconds.com/Demo/PowerPoint-2007/19/13) I have a calc one that I will be putting out on the site this week or next week. Let me know your ideas. Thanks, -Josh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
