To Teachers - Enhance the Efficiency of Software Teaching

"Voting Question: How do you make little Quicktimeactions which have taken on screen, and add visual
tutorials?aids and interactive actions to the demo, no
I want to make a little video demonstration to myprogramming knowledge or multimedia skills required.
students how to do things in MS Office. For example, IOnly a few minutes you turn what you see to what
would record myself Opening Excel, then entering data,you want.
and saving the file. The students will see all of the2.Edit
movements that I make with the computer and theyAdd some callouts and balloons to make the
would hear my voice explaining the steps. How doinstructions clear, and also add the narration by
people do that? What kind of software do I need?recording the sound from the microphone, no need
What kind of equipment do I need? Thanks!"other special devices or skills. Always these kinds of
I have seen this post in the Yahoo! Answer, a teacherdemo creator tools support various kinds of interactive
submit this post, she need some help to make a demoelements.
for her students, as a computer student, I want toThe following is a sample of Microsoft Office Word
introduce the teachers a kind of demo creator tool toguideline. (How to color the selected words by
make the flash software tutorial easily.Microsoft Word) to color selected words by Microsoft
"A picture is worth a thousand words", as you know, aWord.bmp
flash visual tutorial with all of the operation steps will be3.Publish
easier to guide the students to learn the newPublish the software tutorial as flash or e-learning
software. These kinds of Demo Creator tools willcourses, update to the blog to enrich the content. Most
record the activities of screens, and also add manyof these kinds of demo creator tools support LMS
instructions and tips to the tutorial will make the(AICC/SCORM) compatible courses.
operations clearer.These kinds of Demo Creator Tools are useful for
There are only three steps to make software tutorialteachers to do their own demonstration and tutorial by
by these kinds of demo creator tools:themselves, no need any other programming or media
1.Recordskills. Most of these kinds of Demo Creator tools'
Record the screen activities when you are operatingmenu are friendly and easy to use.
the application. These Demo Creator tools mirror the