| "Voting Question: How do you make little Quicktime | | | | actions 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 my | | | | programming knowledge or multimedia skills required. |
| students how to do things in MS Office. For example, I | | | | Only 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 the | | | | 2.Edit |
| movements that I make with the computer and they | | | | Add some callouts and balloons to make the |
| would hear my voice explaining the steps. How do | | | | instructions 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 teacher | | | | demo creator tools support various kinds of interactive |
| submit this post, she need some help to make a demo | | | | elements. |
| for her students, as a computer student, I want to | | | | The following is a sample of Microsoft Office Word |
| introduce the teachers a kind of demo creator tool to | | | | guideline. (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, a | | | | Word.bmp |
| flash visual tutorial with all of the operation steps will be | | | | 3.Publish |
| easier to guide the students to learn the new | | | | Publish the software tutorial as flash or e-learning |
| software. These kinds of Demo Creator tools will | | | | courses, update to the blog to enrich the content. Most |
| record the activities of screens, and also add many | | | | of 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 tutorial | | | | teachers to do their own demonstration and tutorial by |
| by these kinds of demo creator tools: | | | | themselves, no need any other programming or media |
| 1.Record | | | | skills. Most of these kinds of Demo Creator tools' |
| Record the screen activities when you are operating | | | | menu are friendly and easy to use. |
| the application. These Demo Creator tools mirror the | | | | |