But it's an advance over text-only...
Judy
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Wolfgang M.Bereuter wrote:
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> Geoff,
> I dont know who is Paul Looney an whats a night's RUG-LA meeting. But
> brainfriendly learning is much more than combine text with screenshots.
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On 25.03.2004, at 20:45, Richard Gaskin wrote:
As Paul Looney observed at last night's RUG-LA meeting, the
documentation is nearly completely devoid of screen shots.
Paul's own manual for his IT Works product provides an inspiring
contrast: hardly a page doesn't include at least once screen sh
Yes, and the PDFs that will accompany my project (they are guided projects
in creating simple stacks that gradually increase in -- simple albeit --
complexity) have lots of screenshots. Even the CS majors rely upon them.
And, umm, I think it's called the "dual encoding" theory that even
primaril
If anybody's interested, I should be finishing up a "tour" in the
Hypercard sense (haven't looked at it in years, though, so don't remember
exactly what it was like -- didn't want to for this purpose) along with a
mouse messages/events module; a first draft version hopefully end of next
week.
Last
On Mar 27, 2003, at 8:35 PM, Dave Calkins wrote:
I agree. Jeanne has done a tremendous amount of work to put together
all of the information found in the docs. I even have one of the books
she co-authored.
Dave Calkins
I realy like Rev built-in documentation... It's easy, transcript
dictionary
Thanks for bringing this up. Especially when describing menus, the use
of the Standalone Builder and the Application Browser, and dialog
boxes, screen shots make a WORLD of difference. Just look at the
success of Peachpit's training books.
I hope Rev will eventually start to incorporate scree
Wolfgang M.Bereuter wrote:
Verbal learners will love the rev documentation. They learn best by
verbal communication. They pick things up by reading or listening. The
documentation for this type of learner is fabulous.
Kinesthetic learners understand things by taking them apart, putting
them back to
On 22.03.2004, at 20:55, Kevin Miller wrote:
On 21/3/04 5:29 pm, Dave Calkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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There are three different ways or styles in which people learn:
verbal,
visual, and kinesthetic. Educators know that in order to have most of
their students grasp the information they are
Maybe I need to understand the document search mechanism better. Why
can't I
type in multiple key words to search on? I suppose there is some new
gem of
information that will help me find things more easily - does anybody
know
where that is?
Hi Paul,
There are a few techniques to help, although
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The visual learner needs pictures to "see" how things operate. They
> learn best by looking at screen shots of what is being talked about,
> looking at a picture of the icon being discussed, by watching the
> computer move the mouse on the screen to select the proper menu item,
> by having a l
On 21/3/04 5:29 pm, Dave Calkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been "learning" Rev for about close to 2 years now and have been
> programing since the days of the Card punch machines, (you didn't want
> to drop your program which could easily have a "stack" of punched cards
> several inches
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Maybe I need to understand the document search mechan
Amen - thanks Dave. I will push through to learn it because I think the time
saved in the end will be well worth the trouble, but it bugs me that a tool
that it so excellent in so many ways frustrates me so much. It can take me
forever to figure out how to do something that I am certain can be easi
Hi, Dave,
thanks A LOT for your summary. I agree on your observation, since I have
encountered serious problems accepting the documentation of RR as
"documentation" (rather than an "indexed glossary").
Revolution has the tools to have a great learning environment for the
"Visual" and "Kinesthe
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