> > The "less said the better" principle has allowed me, *for the first time > ever*, to summarize Leo's essential an unique features in just a few > words. This summary probably seems pretty clear to Leonistas. However, I > wonder how much newbies will understand. >
These 'Ironic Comments' are very much to the point. Your post is a nice summary of the main features of Leo for somebody who already knows what Leo is all about. A newbie probably would understand nothing. Of course, this begs the question: Whom do you consider a newbie? Tutorials are a kind of instructional material. The first and foremost question when devoloping instructional material is: Whom do you want to adress? What is your target audience? (Non-IT-people, writers, Java programmers, programmers in general, Emacs fans, Pythonistas, etc.) Second you need to ask, what these people need to learn in order to perform certain tasks. Then, and only then, you can ask how you might accomplish this (using text, videos, pictures, screenshots, etc.). In a former life I have developed a lot of instructional material. What helped me to get a grip on my procedures and to get a clear picture, on what topics to select or dismiss, were a couple of rather small books (around 130 pages or less) by Robert F. Mager, one of the outstanding American pedagocical psychologists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Mager): - Goal Analysis - Preparing Instructional Objectives - Devoping Vocational Instruction Just some remarks... Reinhard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
