Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Slideshows, screencasting and digital storytelling

I have viewed many slideshare presentations and have mixed opinion on their usefulness, it all depends if the slides have been written in a way to be understanable without the presentation. The slides may not contain any useful information. On the other hand it is a great way of sharing what has been presented as it is in that file type and does not have to be reformatted.
At first I thought screencasting was a great idea, but then I thought if you need to explain how to use a website or function initially that perhjaps it is not user friendly to begin with!! I see screen casting would be great for users who want to delve deeper into the functions of a website.
Digital storytelling - getting people to tell their stories - an important part of engaging people. I can definitely see a use for this and we have been throwing some ideas around  about how to do this and what subjects to cover, so I will add this as an option to my list.

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