[Year 12 IT Apps] Re: Onscreen Documentation
Keith Richardson
keithcr at fastmail.fm
Tue Aug 14 18:44:36 EST 2007
My students who all have a background in video editing, are approaching
this in the following dual-approach:
Firstly they are putting colour-coded text boxes onto the spreadshet
with arrows etc giving in-context advice and hints for users.
Then when this is finished to their satisfaction ("The user can just
choose to glance at it or not, depending on whether they need to or
not." is how one of the students put it.), they capture a series of
screen grabs (using the "Capture-and-save-to-folder-as-jpg" facility of
IrfanView set to show the curser). This series of still images they then
load into Sony Vegas (video editing software) and turn into a video,
zooming in for close-ups when one wishes to draw the watcher's attention
to a particular detail, recording a voice-over, and inserting text to
display while the video is running. Also a bit of music to give it
quality, then the whole thing is rendered as a series if web-happy short
videos that a user can play depending on what they want to
'know-how-to-do-something'. These are called up via a hyperlink tutorial
page on one of the worksheets.
Cheers, Keith
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:59:16 +1000, itapps-request at edulists.com.au said:
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> I reckon the BOS will have a plethora of examples for its next update on
> the topic of VISUAL THINKING for this one folks!
> Similarly, the 'on screen product' is generating lots of approaches. Its
> great to see how different teachers are approaching it.
>
> Wonder which direction they (BOS/VCAA) will go?
>
> Very interesting......
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> Kent Beveridge,
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> Michael I am tackling the problem in the same manner.....obviously I am
> encouraging screen shots with notes and arrows and the like.
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> Trying to keep it simple, time constraints.
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> Frank
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> Frank Russo
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> ICT ~ Teaching & Learning
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> Monterey Secondary College
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> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Michael Torsello
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> Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 11:24 AM
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> Dear esteem colleagues
>
> Perhaps I am dredging up something that have already been discussed but
> ...
>
> In the "good old days", user documentation followed this general pattern:
>
> * How to start the application and open the file
> * How to add new data and delete unwanted data
> * How to change existing data
> * How to print
> * How to save the file (including using new filenames)
> * How to exit the program
>
>
>
> I am getting my students to create a single web page with an index
> similar to the topics listed above with links to bookmarks in this one
> page and using screen dumps.
>
> And since this user doc is on-screen, it make sense to me to put a button
> in the spreadsheet that links to this one web page.
>
> Does this sound right?
>
> But if it is in the spreadsheet then step 1 (start and open file) is not
> necessary as you can't get to the user doc until you open the file. And
> if they can open the application, can I assume that the user knows how to
> exit too making the last step is superfluous?
>
> Is my reasoning logical?
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