User:Brandingopportunity/User blog/Instructional video

Hi folks,

I've been playing around with a great little freeware program called Jing by TechSmith, that allows you to make short screencapture videos which you can narrate yourself. My first thought is that this would allow me to make short instructional videos about how to edit our wiki. The videos themselves I would upload to Youtube, so we wouldn't take up any more bandwidth here. Each would be pretty short (under 2 mins), but I guess could be lengthened if I am talking about larger topics. Here are some preliminary ideas for videos:

How to create an article about a person.
How to create an article about a city.
How to create an article about an organization.
Interesting options in your Preferences menu.
How to create a forum post

So do folks think this is a good idea? Would it be useful? Do you have more ideas as to what subjects could be mentioned?

Let me know.

BrOp (Alex)

You'll probably want to hold off on the Preferences menu one until the new look comes out. I think there are changes afoot that will change how some of that works and/or looks. —Aeakett (talk) Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:21:06 +0000

Good idea, I'll add that to the list. —Brandingopportunity (talk) Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:41:30 +0000

Good thinking, Andrew. —Brandingopportunity (talk) Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:13:34 +0000

Sounds good. maybe a "How to make references work" in both forms of editing? —Cpt kirstov (talk) Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:02:49 +0000

Yes. Useful. Get right on that. —Yoda8myhead (talk) Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:35:25 +0000