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I have recently put together some basic interactive flash videos that will help members become acquainted with different technologies. To create these videos, I used a utility called Wink. Wink allows me to capture all of the activity on my computer by following mouse clicks and keyboard inputs. I create these videos by showing you the steps I have followed on my computer. The goal of these videos is that they will provide simple step-by-step guides to technologies that may be fundamental to members’ needs.
After creating the videos, I edited the frames and added text boxes to show what my computer was doing in each step, and what that step looks like on screen. In some instances, there are even additional steps that were not shown on screen. Each frame that is captured appears just like a screenshot, and adding text boxes and stopping points in specific frames allows viewers to easily follow along. In many cases, you can watch each step of the video in your browser and then follow the presented instructions to complete the task on your own computer.
I have tried my best to make the first video basic enough for most viewers to follow. That video shows you how to set up a Gmail account in Mozilla Thunderbird. This first tutorial is primarily intended to demonstrate the format of future Wink tutorials. While there is definitely a benefit in storing the data from your Gmail account offline, as well as in using Thunderbird to view multiple email accounts in one place, this video may not be useful for everyone. But even if this demonstration does not interest you, check it out to see what the format looks like. The first video can be found in a newly created repository on the CRT website. Whenever you see a blog post about a new tutorial, that tutorial will have been added to the repository.
In an effort to reach more members, many of these videos will be at a pace that is comfortably slow and very easy to follow. We hope in the coming weeks and months to add a number of demonstrations that we think will be useful to members. A few tutorials are already being created for Facebook, Twitter, Active Rain, RSS, etc. I appreciate any feedback and will gear future videos to the needs of those who respond. Feel free to contact me with tutorial ideas or needs.
Greg Stinton
gstinton@realtors.org
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