Here's a very good example of how a video can be used to introduce the
usage of an application. It's very well done:

 in lo-fi (94 MB)
    http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Demo-lo-res.mov
and hi-fi (240 MB)
    http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren7.5.Demo-hi-res.mov



Sebastian Sastre wrote:
> Hi there,
>  
>     I been thinking about the value of blogs talking daily Squeak use.
> Squeak users/developers probably use the squeak's environment in
> different ways according to what they do/develop. And because
> Smalltalk was designed with the extremely valuable feature of making
> possible to be all inteligible for one individual, that sometimes
> could be a lonely task. That hasn't to be bad until the developer
> starts to loose valuable experiences because of that. For instance, if
> you are in pair programming, one developer could learn about a new way
> to find a method faster or a different class browser or a different
> subtle and clever way to use the browser, and so on...
>  
>     That subtlelties that are easily transmitted person to person so
> meetings, BOf's and educational experiences are great to patch that,
> but what if your profile just don't have access to that at certain
> moment to any of those?
>  
>     I think, (and I may be right or not in this) that there are lots
> of people that fits in this profile at least for some time and there
> is a gap on support to those people. The result of that gap is clear,
> or the person surpass it by itself or not.
>  
>     If is interesting to us that more persons can surpass that gap
> and find the completeness of the squeak experience I think that fact
> makes interesting to us to have vehicles (blogs are the more feasible
> I think) with articles that friendly introduces stories of
> developments that in fact are merely excuses to comunicate tips that
> should be fulfilling the gap. Even when they may seem to be silly for
> more experienced developers.
>  
>     I barely imagine a newbie's frustration to understand the complete
> cycle experience of developing with squeak because it happends to me
> the silly thing that I dicovered yesterday the preferences browser
> after some years of using squeak. Yes I know, I wasn't reading the
> menu and exploring that option by myself, but maybe that shouldn't be
> the only access to that information and access to information is what
> I'm talking about.
>  
>     Maybe universities and schools that uses Squeak are aware and have
> taken measures about this, but I wanted to put this here "just in
> case" and because I think that is valuable for squeak and the whole
> smalltalk comunity that we have more bolgs that concentrates the
> veteran squeakers virtual-environmental experiences that acts as
> welcome and friendly "doors" to the knowledge and people can have an
> emotionally smoother experiences surpassing the squeak/smalltalk
> experience gaps and knowledge barriers.
>  
>     cheers,
>  
>
> Sebastian Sastre
>
>  
>
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