On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > I always prefer simple devices over complicated ones. Screen shots > rather than movies. And to me, movies are "complicated". Sure, they > don't risk the learner "jumping the rails" like a static tutorial, but > they risk him taking against the narrator's accent, among other > things. And few users have the attention span to sit thru a tutorial > longer than a minute or two.
I frequently do not watch movies, for a variety of reasons (ranging from not having flash installed to not knowing how long the movie will play nor how many times I will have to watch it to find the bits of information that are relevant to me -- after several minutes of "nothing new" I usually find myself not paying attention). -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
