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

[Matt Clare]

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
> 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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  ::  Matt Clare
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Educational Technology Support Specialist,
Centre for Teaching Learning and Educational Technologies (CTLET)
Part-time Instructor, Interactive Arts and Sciences
Brock University, Ontario, Canada
www.brocku.ca/ctlet  905 688 5550 xt 4734   Office: SBH315

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