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

[Adam Marshall]

These may be of help: http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/SakaiExistingDocumentation and http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/SakaiReviewOfVideos 

We're about to launch into the production of 30+ screen casts over the summer.

Another useful resource may be weblearn.ox.ac.uk/info

Adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:pedagogy-
| bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Sean Keesler
| Sent: 27 May 2010 14:18
| To: pedagogy Learning; Sakai User
| Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Basic screen casts on how to use
| Sakai
| 
| 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
| site for a month and answering general questions from new folks that
| come to the 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
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| Manlius, NY 13104
| 315-682-0830
| sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
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