Now that I have a bit more experience with Snapguides, I wanted to share my latest tutorials on Snapguide along with my preliminary evaluation of using this sight for producing origami tutorials. You can see my latest Tutorials here:
http://snapguide.com/charles-santee/guides/ These include a tutorial on a “Charm Base” that can be used to make money fold charms for a charm bracelet. Also, there is a tutorial on how to create a simpler “Flexisquare Puzzle”. Warning, this last guide only requires two quick cuts but can be used to help understand my more difficult Fold only Flexisquare puzzle that appears on Flickr. Now for a Quick Review of making tutorials using Snapguides. Positives: The process of creating a guide is very easy on the Ipad. You can use either saved videos or pictures or take the pictures or video as you create. There is a template for including required materials. You can go back and edit the guide even after it has been published and the link to the guide remains the same. Generally, the comments by others are mostly positive – less flaming than Youtube. The playback appears to be quick on either the Ipad or a computer. You can enter text easily on either the video or picture pages or as a totally separate text only page. Negatives: Most of the people producing the Origami related Snapguides are producing instructions for traditional models that tend to have instructions in other places. I am one of the few producing instructions for new original models at this time. The app for producing Snapguides is only available on the IPad as far as I know. Snapguides does not read files directly from the Video section on the Ipad and you must have the videos placed in the photo group. This can make it somewhat difficult to get videos that have been edited on a Computer into a Snapguide. However, once produced, snapguids can be viewed on a computer including a PC based computer. What I would really like to see: I wish there were a dominant social network sight that supported the advanced features of either “Powerpoint or Keynote”. In the 1980’s I had to teach Powerpoint for teachers and I think it has the most potential for some really nifty “How to Fold” instructions. Doc
