I was trying Dai's Creating a database tutorial. It's come up now. Can anyone give an indication which tutorials need to be updated otherwise I'll have to try all of them against 3.2 which could be quite time consuming. I've noticed a few users in the mail lists have asked for more visual methods of learning the product and they have asked for more screenshots and videos.
I was thinking about doing some simple tutorials at present to accompany the Getting Started documentation. I'm sure some of what is on the tutorials page is still relevant in that area. Also I'm looking for some ideas what you'd like to see as a tutorial so that I can create some new ones. However I'd need to know where to store them as I haven't the facility here and therefore we would have to think carefully about what the most important subjects should be to save valuable server space. Taking into account 60-80% of people learn visually I think it may be worth exploring the tutorials further. Men are mostly visual & kinesthetic learners i.e. learn by physically touching in conjunction with visual instructions such as reading and using videos. They are also more likely to draw diagrams about what they are learning about, especially if they are working in groups; whereas women tend to pick things up visually and auditorily. Bearing in mind these statistics I think it's worth the effort to update these files as some users with learning and language issues will be able to pick up the information in video files better than if they just read the books. Claire On 22 February 2010 07:05, Clayton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/22/2010 01:32 PM, Claire Wood wrote: > > Have the tutorials been deleted or is something up with the site because > > only a few minutes beforehand I tried to get onto the main site at > > OpenOffice.org and it hung. I can get onto OOoauthors though with no > > problems. > > > > I was trying to download one of Dai's tutorials on how to create a > database. > > I was thinking of doing a video file of each of Mariano's tutorials > after > > I'd updated the text to experiment with creating tutorials. > > It's possible there was a temporary problem on the main OOo website - > the OOo website and oooauthors are hosted on different servers (so one > may be accessible while the other is offline) > > I clicked through on a few random tutorials, and the ones I tried all > worked. Is there a specific one that isn't working for you right now? > > Some of the tutorials are quite old. Most were created a few years > ago... some are hosted on the Documentation project space on the OOo > webserver... some are hosted externally. None are maintained by the Doc > Project. For ones that are specific to older versions of OOo, it might > be helpful if we update the links on the Wiki to state that it's for > verison x.y of OOo. Any that are no longer valid (ie verified broken > links) should be removed. > > > C. > -- > Clayton Cornell [email protected] > OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Best wishes Claire Wood
