Linking from the user guide chapters in the wiki sounds good to me.
Some links have already been added (not by me) from the UGs to other
tutorials and items on the wiki or on other websites. (When I see
them, I check them to make sure they are legitimate and not spam.)
I'm not sure I like the idea of linking words or phrases within a wiki
page instead of adding a "see also" section at the end of a page, but
I am definitely in favour of the general idea. Because anyone can
update the wiki, these links can be added and updated relatively
quickly and easily.
Putting links in the user guide PDFs would be more work (and would
probably be more out of date) because the PDFs are generated
infrequently from the source ODTs.
--Jean
Claire Wood wrote:
Can I ask...
Are you planning for these links in the pdfs or wiki guides? I'm not sure
whether Jean & Co would be keen on external links being in the pdfs, but I
don't know, you'd have to check with her.
I'm currently working on a Base mid-level tutorial document with Mariano
Cassanova and it seems like a good idea. I was going to have a crack at an
accompanying video for it myself because I'm quite interested in doing some
elearning tutorials, but overall it seems like a good idea.
Claire
On 2 March 2010 10:50, Josh <j...@delcore.us> wrote:
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
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