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

[Steve Lonn]

There's also a great collection of tutorials / videos / screencasts  / etc. on Confluence in the End-User Working Group space: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/DwAmAg

Adam, can you add your document(s) to this collection?

--Steve



On May 27, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:

> 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
> | 130 Academy Street
> | Manlius, NY 13104
> | 315-682-0830
> | sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
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