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

Thu May 27 14:28:41 PDT 2010

I've added a page to confluence with some initial ideas for how we
might structure any working group at the conference.
http://wiki.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF2010/Screencasts+for+sakaiproject.org

Sean

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Keesler
<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
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Nate Angell <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> 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
>>>> 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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>>>  ::  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
>>> www.brocku.ca/ctlet  905 688 5550 xt 4734   Office: SBH315
>>>
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