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

[Ed Garay]

Just-in-time little online video tutorials are precious.  They work for Blackboard, Moodle, so why not Sakai?  I suggest a bunch of short, quick and task-specific, each, a couple of minutes long, plus a two or three of 10-minute long ones giving instructors and students a general overview; have also a set of longish ones designed for people with disabilities. 

Do them in Jing, Camtasia Studio or for extra credit, in Adobe Captivate.

Lynda.com has two quality Moodle Essentials tutorials, one for instructors and one for students, about eight hours long each, but with that nice Lynda.com granular Table of Contents with dozens of links to each of the short little video nuggets.

Authoring LMS and other #EdTech screencasts, in my experience, is time very well spent. Very well spent.

Greetings from Chicago,

Ed Garay
Assistant Director for Academic Computing
Director, UIC Instructional Technology Lab
University of Illinois at Chicago
www.accc.uic.edu/Itl
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On May 27, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Sean Keesler <sean.keesler at threecanoes.com> 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
> 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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