[DG: Teaching & Learning] Basic screen casts on how to use Sakai

Thu Jun 10 14:14:29 PDT 2010

Sean,

Unfortunately none of my "training resources" team from Indiana University will be at Denver this year. I hope that some of the other IU folks may attend to learn more about the specs you have established. Although our Feature Demos are a little longer than the 60-90 seconds, they definitely meet many of the other criteria. (No intros to the people talking either ;-)

I'll look forward to hearing the results of the working session.

Rita Pavolka
Indiana University
pavolka at indiana.edu
From: pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Kara Stiles
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 5:10 PM
To: Sean Keesler
Cc: Sakai User; pedagogy Learning
Subject: Re: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Basic screen casts on how to use Sakai

Here is some stuff.

http://www.rsmart.com/resource/sakai-summer-institute-build-course-sakai-cle

Thanks,
Kara
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Sean Keesler <sean.keesler at threecanoes.com<mailto:sean.keesler at threecanoes.com>> wrote:
I love all the material that is out there...but...

What I think we can aspire to create is a simple collection of videos
that address the "new user" who is interested in the software and has
visited the site for the first time.

My vision would be to have maybe 6 or 7 videos that walk someone who
is completely unfamiliar with Sakai through the first steps of some
basic tools, without any implementation specific points (integration
with your CM, auth systems, etc...no mentions of local support groups,
special worksite types or roles, etc.)

The format would be something along the lines of:
"Hello, I'm [your name] from [your college/company] and I'm going to
be showing you how easy it is to create a new course worksite (or
whatever) in Sakai. We are looking at a Sakai instance at [your
college], but everything I'm going to show you will be applicable to
your Sakai instance."

Then the walkthrough would pretty much touch base on the key points of
the embedded help. Not all encompassing, but enough to demonstrate the
tool's purpose and that the tool is not difficult to use.

Although it would be really easy for me to simply link to everything
that is out there, I'd like to first estimate the effort and interest
in making these simple screencasts. We could double dip on everyone's
experience, but I think the media would be unique for the web site.
Of course, if the commitment to produce something specific for this
unique audience isn't there, I can simply embed whatever is out there.
I think the results would be significantly different.

Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, NY 13104
315-682-0830
sean.keesler at threecanoes.com<mailto:sean.keesler at threecanoes.com>

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Nate Angell <nate.angell at rsmart.com<mailto:nate.angell at rsmart.com>> wrote:
> In addition to the great collections cropping up here Sean, you might
> consider shepherding working sessions at the Sakai conference in
> Denver. Learning how to create effective screencasts would be a great
> way to involve folks in the working session who do not consider
> themselves developers, etc. Plus, I've already added it to the agenda
> for you ;)
> http://wiki.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF2010/Sakai+Working+Session+Start
>
> http://openedpractices.org is already set up to become a repository of
> resources like this if it makes sense to collect them there as
> "resources" and point to the collection from the SP.org site.
>
> -- Nate
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Matt Clare <Matt.Clare at brocku.ca<mailto:Matt.Clare at brocku.ca>> wrote:
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>>        Here's some of what Brock University has produced posted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/BrockCTLET#grid/user/89DA146E7342E8D0
>>
>>        And here are the wiki articles we have with little screencasts/vignettes beside the text:  http://kumu.brocku.ca/sakai/Category:Video
>>
>>        All the best.
>>
>> .\.\att
>>
>> On 2010-05-27, at 9:17 AM, Sean Keesler wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on a screencast kick. Well...more like a screencast search kick.
>>>
>>> For those that don't know, I've been maintaining the sakaiproject.org<http://sakaiproject.org>
>>> site for a month and answering general questions from new folks that
>>> come to the sakaiproject.org<http://sakaiproject.org> web site. I was just asked a pretty basic
>>> question that went something like:
>>>
>>> "I just got Sakai installed on my machine and I logged in as the admin
>>> user. Now what?"
>>>
>>> I pointed him to confluence, Sakai Help and the reference docs
>>> included with Sakai, but I really wanted to be able to point him to a
>>> 60-90 second screencast that showed how to add users, create a course
>>> site and add some tools (the down and dirty basics) but I don't see
>>> any of them out there. I googled for "Sakai Worksite Setup" videos and
>>> saw my own setup for a portfolio site. Not exactly what I wanted!
>>>
>>> I have a gut feeling that similar videos for setting up a gradebook,
>>> creating and grading assignments and delivering a test (and probably a
>>> million more) would be sweet little nuggets to highlight some Sakai
>>> benefits for the new user or someone who is Sakai-curious. It's about
>>> time our web site had it!
>>>
>>> I could envision a section of the site about "the basics"
>>> (assignments, tests and quizzes, gradebooks and discussion tools) and
>>> a section for "advanced" uses (wikis, portfolios, blogs, podcasts,
>>> etc.)
>>>
>>> While the online text help is quite extensive and of high quality, I
>>> believe that it may not be the best way to share that knowledge with
>>> the general public.
>>> I'm sure that the community has made some of this material. If we
>>> haven't, I'd like to get some folks together that share some energy
>>> around it and coordinate a new section of the site all about that. I'd
>>> be happy to do it online or at the conference.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sean Keesler
>>> 130 Academy Street
>>> Manlius, NY 13104
>>> 315-682-0830
>>> sean.keesler at threecanoes.com<mailto:sean.keesler at threecanoes.com>
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>>  ::  Matt Clare
>>  --------------------------------------------------------------
>> Educational Technology Support Specialist,
>> Centre for Teaching Learning and Educational Technologies (CTLET)
>> Part-time Instructor, Interactive Arts and Sciences
>> Brock University, Ontario, Canada
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>>
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