[Year 12 IT Apps] Re: Onscreen Documentation

[Roland Gesthuizen]

A fascinating and interesting approach Keith ..  video documentation. (hmm)

I heard from a colleague at VicRoads that every couple of days they use a
video system mounted under a helicopter that flies along the entire length
of the Eastern freeway works to document the project. He smiled when I told
him about your "helicopter vision of project management" and said that this
was close to the way that they often work.

Do you find that this takes long?  I suppose not once they have mastered the
SW and have a collection of screenshots to talk about.

Regards Roland

On 14/08/07, Keith Richardson <keithcr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>

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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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