Hey Jonathan--I'm a big fan of well-done screencasts. I'm making
some for my students, for example, 'how do you make bubbles with
links with CmapTools' etc. Here are some characteristics of good
instructional videos. Like any criteria they should be used in
moderation...
--They are short, ideally 2 minutes max. This involves processing
the screen cast afterwards to remove non-necessary stuff, also
planning ahead of time helps as well to make sure you get all the
bases covered.
--They have enough resolution so that you can read what's going on
without too much squinting
--There is text to accompany them with code that can be copied/pasted
and instructions that can be edited/improved--wiki style and read and
re-read as needed.
--I really like sound, otherwise my attention wanders all over the
place :-)
Here's an example of one I really like--Probably needs to be updated
to Lucid of course--that's one of the things about documentation of
Ubuntu with new version every 6 months :)
If you find some good ones, link to them on the BasicSetup page (like
the one above by LNS--thanks Jordan!).
David
On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
Hi David
Yesterday I searched for Edubuntu on YouTube and was pleasantly
surprised to find a bunch of training videos that different users
created for Edubuntu.
It seems that for some people at least, creating a video of how you do
it and explaining alongside is easier than typing up a howto in
detail.
I'm wondering if we should perhaps communicate what kind of
documentation we need with the Youtube community and see what happens?
I'm quite interested myself in doing a few of them.
Any thoughts?
-Jonathan
On 02/07/2010 11:25, David Groos wrote:
Hi All Edubuntistas,
As I was researching and creating a "BasicSetup" wiki page
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/
EdubuntuCookbook/BasicSetup>
I was moved by all the work that has been done on the Ubuntu
wiki. So
much has been created over the years. My goal was to make 1 page to
coordinate all the how-to pages needed to do a basic (but
complete) set
up of an Edubuntu Lucid LTSP server. The criteria used include:
1. Respect the name space already used by the community (thus the
"cookbook" in the name)
2. Make the page as clear and easy to edit as possible.
3. Include only the most basic how-to's but, be complete as well
Like all community projects, I can't (nor ought to) do this all
myself.
I don't have enough knowledge nor enough time. There are many
dozens of
people on these mailing lists. The Dev's are already tapped out with
their work developing the software and answering higher-level
troubleshooting questions so mainly my plea is directed to the
Edubuntu-users list and Ubuntu-education list. Haven't made a
page and
not sure how to? Ask me and I'll help you get started. We need
new people!
Please take a look at this page. Please consider adding your
knowledge
to this page, improving this page. If there are existing
resources that
are appropriate for Lucid, note that and link to them. If a how-
to page
needs to be updated for Lucid and you have the knowledge or are
willing
to gain it and update the page, please do so!
I'm willing to work over this summer to help create and coordinate
this
BasicSetup series of pages. Join me!
David
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