Student project: to Wordpress 2.7 Screencasts

known as

Michael and Kai-Uwe, her character of my university computer science students have made ​​genuine in recent months with the development screencast tutorials struggled. The task was to respond to three different audiences:
First Starter, the first time ever to enter the blog topic.
Second Advanced students who are familiar with blogs and now even want to install WordPress.
Third Insiders who may have already installed an older version of WP - and want to see whether an upgrade is recommended at the current 2.7 version.

By the way, one can see from this project quite well why the development of screencasts, especially in university contexts ... worth: For there is not enough simply to master the "art". Something To record and store video hush-hush as that is not art. Is quite different from that when you approach something like a professional: developing basic idea of ​​performing audience analysis, create first draft screenplays, instructional design, software clarify techniques to acquire the digital section to clarify rights issues (in this case the highlighted music) to develop consistent design for all consequences , spark curiosity about the next episode, clarify logo, lettering simplified uniform color coordinate design, construct and produce visual examples that make something immediately clear. After market analysis, record retrieval rates increase, spread over iTunes, consider Google placement, etc., etc.

There are also lots of different techniques when mixing different techniques. In our case, live-action (= video of newspapers) plus plus screencast stopmotion. (To illustrate the mail function of WordPress) alone, the picture-by-frame capture from the phone screen, fitting the resulting animation in a dummy case has taken so many hours. For this, the critical social science faculty of the gripe, the beta of each part was to "computer-heavy" ... Yes, the seminar was no picnic

Anyway, it would be great if you could possibly make in your blog or in any other way a little publicity for the project! A big thank you for this!

Homepage of the project.
iTunes link