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

Fri May 28 14:09:39 PDT 2010

Here is some stuff.

http://www.rsmart.com/resource/sakai-summer-institute-build-course-sakai-cle

Thanks,
Kara

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM, 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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