Day 6: Screencast With Point-Form Notes
Jason Montojo and I put together an introductory screencast about spreadsheets today. Unlike our previous screencasts, this one is accompanied by point-form slide-style notes instead of prose paragraphs. We’d be grateful for your feedback: are notes of this kind useful? Are they comprehensible without watching the screencast itself? If the notes were available in slide format (Keynote, PowerPoint, Impress, or plain old PDF) would they be enough for you to lecture with?
I highly recommend Mouseposé
http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/overview/
(or something equivalent) for screencasts that involve key presses.
This tool will show which keys were pressed on the keyboard and when in a very clear way, and it will supplement the voice instructions. It also shows when the mouse keys were pressed.
I liked the screencast again for the subject material, and this time the point form lent itself to titles that broke up the material into nice chunks.
I think the notes looked sufficient to recreate the lecture, but it is more effective as a screencast.