Pine, I would like to help. I think that quiddity's suggestions are good. Perhaps we should tackle individual segments of how to edit with VE rather than the whole kit & caboodle. More of a just-in-time approach to VE help.
That said, I have no real experience with VE as I tend to work directly with Wiki markup. Bringing a beginner's mind to VE might be a good thing. I also do not have either a Chromebook or Linux systems that the tools suggested at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2015-March/001273.html use. Perhaps someone in the Seattle area who has a Linux PC can assist us. Except for Saturday morning, I am available this coming weekend (although on-call) to start. Yours, Peaceray On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:39 PM, quiddity <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Just an idea, for the part on how to edit with VisualEditor, make several >> short videos with distinct themes instead of one long video covering it >> all. Not only will it be easier to record and edit, it will be easier to >> reuse if you a question like question "How do I add a source with VE?" and >> you can just point them to that video rather than handing them a 30 minute >> video and trying to remember at what time that part starts. >> >> > > Strong +1. The shorter a video is, the more people will watch/listen to > it. > I'd recommend 30-90 seconds as the ideal target, with ~4 minutes as the > second ideal target, and ~10 minutes as the maximum. Anything longer than > that, could be broken up into chunks, and should be, Because: > A) less "time-commitment" for viewers (it can kindle the enthusiasm of > clicking "oh, just one more!", rather than "oh god, another entire > hour-at-once!"), > B) it allows multiple shorter videos to be embedded in a page of text,* > C) it has much more potential over the years ahead, for us (*all*) to > update/improve/adapt/fork/subtitle/remix/etc each *segment* of it, in > every wiki that it is wanted. > > The text of the accompanying page could be: > * A concise version of the video(s), in bulletform list. I.e. "Slide-show > presentation" style. With just keywords, and the clickable links to > whatever the video is describing. > * Or, a match of the video(s) content, for people without video-options > * Or, a more elaborate/extensive/complete version of the video(s) content. > E.g. our full Policy/Guideline/MoS/Essay/Help/etc pages themselves! > > > (Re: screencasts, I replied to the earlier thread related to this, but > didn't CC-all, sorry! See > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2015-March/001273.html ) > > --quiddity > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >
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