Re: FN-FORUM: Tutorial Check??

date posted 17th April 2008 22:42

Kathy

> A few comments - If this is for open learning or CBT, you need to make
> it more obvious that it is the type of simulation that does things on
> its own, rather than a simulation of the program that you can actually
> click on. There should be a screen or floating pop-up doodah explaining
> this.
>
> The screen changes too fast to read (and the text is too small).
> It's not clear if something is going to happen or if the page is just
> static.
> If there is audio, there should be subtitles or a transcript - took me a
> while to figure out that there must be audio.
> Get someone who speaks RP or posh American (or S African), and does it
> professionally, to do the voice-over. Too laid back and
> uninterested-sounding at the moment. Should sound as though it is really
> exciting (*shudder*).
> Try to use active, not passive voice, a bit more. "You can.." rather
> than "It does...


Thanks very much for this - that's very useful. I certainly agree about
the voice - when I listened back I was shocked at how bored I sounded,
especially as I actually *do* find this stuff exciting. I might try
re-dubbing it with my wife's voice: she's got a much better speaking
voice. I found it surprisingly hard to get the voices synchronised with
all the mouse and keyboard actions, which is why I did the voice myself.
Putting a subtitle track on it is another very good idea: I think this
package (Camtasia Studio) allows that.



> Don't assume that people know what is zip file is, or HTML, or anything
> else
>
> BTW I write courseware.
>

I'll bear that in mind

> HTH

Indeed it does.


Graham