Tutorial+in+progress

February 25th - this is the latest ... check it out :-)

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February 23 - Camtasia final?? Please take a look and tell me what I've missed :-) I found out how to make the song quieter, but found that when the volume was such that you could actually hear it, it detracted from Jeannette's voice - it was too distracting. So I plugged it in at the end, after the talking. Hope that is okay. It isn't perfect, but it beats 'jinging'! I'll wait until I've heard from everyone before adding it to the powerpoint.

I've checked it out and I think it is wonderful (except for the voice!!!). I think you can certainly place it in the PowerPoint for Monday. By the way, did the initial animation try-out come through on your memory stick okay? JJ I'm so glad that you found this Camtasia...still a mystery as to how you did, but yeah you!

I take it that you will put the .pdf or .doc of our parallel design in too, as we discussed? I have checked it as well...fabulous!

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Thanks everyone, R

February 23, 2011 Would something such as the following work for our parallel design testing? PDF and .doc are below.

February 22, 2011 Don't know what happened to the 21st ... But, is this what you mean, Chris, sort of?? I replaced the story icon graphic with the picture graphic from Word ... don't know if this is kosher or not ... but ...?

February 20th ... Sample of slides in Camtasia - I can see that we will need to be careful about the placement of text to the right of the slides. I added in a fade in fade out transition to all - do we need this, or no transition? Also, we can use a zoom feature to highlight particular buttons, but I think need to wait until the voice is in. Chris, as you write the script, you may find these slides useful. The 'add story icon' option at the beginning becomes our first example of adding a picture, which we can talk about explicitly and say that adding other pictures follows the same process ... take a look. We can still make thousands of changes! :-) Also, I put the virti-cue song in on the first slide, but think it may be a bit long - what do you think? Perhaps we could find a short little sequence from Garage Band? Anyone musically inclined out there??? (I know who you are!) //Do you still want this? I'm thinking that now that the Virt-cue song is advertising at the end, we don't need anything else? I'll certainly create a short motif if needed? JJ//

R

Great work, Robin. I think we may need to be more explicit about differentiating the icon picture from the story pictures. This becomes particularly apparent when we come to the screen where you have the option to add more pictures. I can imagine a user getting confused as to whether this means adding more icon pictures or story pictures. Can we name the pictures designated for icons as "icon picture" and the others as "story pictures?" Something that will set them apart so the user knows that one picture is to be used for an icon while the others are for stories.

Chris

February 21st - Response: I'm not certain what this would look like - as 'icon pictures' (aka clip art, take a picture, my pictures) could all be used as icons, or as pictures in the social script. Let's talk about this on Wednesday and make a decision as a group. I thought at first it may be confusing, but then thought if we make it explicit, as you have in the script below, that the process of choosing an icon is very much the same as adding a picture, that we would be okay. We may need to run it through both ways to see which makes the most sense. Also, I see that we have the same icons for 'choose a story icon' and 'clip art' - is this okay? - Or "Aha!" is this what you are talking about above?? I feel so slow!! Looking forward to 'seeing the light'!

Hmmmm ... so many things to consider!! Thanks for the suggestions and great script, Chris. Robin

Feb 21- Hi all, Robin, Fantastic work. I really liked the way you added our ‘Virti cue Song’ and presented the first slide with a pink magnifying glass which kind of gives a cue to the user. I was wondering if we should continue this in the following slides as well as it highlights the action required??

HI Vanita The 'sample' is just a sample - we will not be using it - if we were to put the 'magnifying' effect on each slide at this time, we would have to re-do it all for the final. So it is there just to give an idea of what we can include - I like the way it highlights as well. The way in which Camtasia works is that we take a 'video' of the png of the slide - a png made from a word doc using jing. After the video has been taken, it is added to the show in Camtasia, then at that point we can add various effects, such as zooming and transitions. Make sense? We'll mess around with it tomorrow. Thanks for the ideas. Robin Vg. Chris, Great script. I had a few suggestions I ‘ll put them in bracket, see if it makes sense??? I have added a few words in the passage below using Orange colour. and Bolded/Underlined the words that we could possibly change. Please take a look, Thanks. vg

Social Story Script Draft:

Welcome back to Virti-cue Cues. In this segment, you will learn how to take pictures when creating a new story. From the home screen, select “New Story.” Next, choose a name for your story__,( **something that reflects the nature of the chosen social skill )**__ Once you have assigned a name, choose an icon that best represents the story theme. You have three options: select an icon from clip art, take a new picture instantly with your portable device, or choose **__an__** existing photo stored on your device. Let’s take a new picture for our icon. Take your picture by clicking on the camera icon. Virti-cue now prompts you to decide whether or not to keep this picture. If you are not happy with the picture, click “try again” and repeat the process. If you are satisfied with your picture icon, click “use picture.” On the next screen, your options are to save your story icon and add a new picture, save and exit, or cancel what you have done. Let’s save and add a new picture. Choose “take a picture.” Click on the camera icon. If you like your picture click use picture. Then save and exit. You now have a story name, // an // icon to represent it, and have added a new picture for your social story. At any time, you may come back to edit your social story. Thank you for using Virti-Cue

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//This looks and sounds perfect! Way to go!!!//

February 18th ... update.

Check out the sample below, done using Camtasia and Pinpoint for the cursor. media type="file" key="Camtasia test 2.mov" width="300" height="300" I think this is the ticket and it will work wonderfully for our product!!

Robin

February 15, 2011 Here are the latest versions of the slides. Let me know if you see any inconsistencies or would like changes. Thanks, Robin

I added a 'closing slide' - but wasn't really certain what to put on it ... ideas? (Read left to right, top to bottom for correct sequencing)

We'll change the angle of the arrow

Hi y'all,

Here are two collections of icons to consider. The first gives a unity, a continuity to our product and to the tutorial. There are other sets out there of course, but these were FREE. The B set, belong to one style set, advisable in the research (will find it again!). The A set, are separate ideas from the set that Robin initially bought and used (I have since jumped on the bandwagon too). These would give us our own sense of connection etc. although I'm not sure if there are enough to serve our purposes. The A set has several examples, just scroll down to view. The B set I have already culled: Don't know if there are enough of what we need, but I do like the consistency of color and design. See what you think. Possibly we don't need icons/graphics for everything? Plus, these are a mixture of non-active icon images and graphics, so we can mix and match if we wish...with care of course!





Hi everyone,

These are the first mock-ups of 'slides' that I've done - the icons used are placeholders only and can be replaced if/when we find something that we like better. There is a little lack of consistency in the buttons that I found - plus lots of shadow, which I don't think we need. Thoughts? Suggestions? We can take pictures (Jings) of the arrows moving in to point to the appropriate button to create an animated effect. How about if anyone finds better buttons they post them on this page? Thanks ... talk to you soon.

Do we want to include user controls on each slide? Pause, play, ff, rewind?



** Robin, this looks great! Thank you for doing it. ** ** Here are some of the icons I have short listed after viewing millions, Please feel free to add/edit/etc. ** ** Rationale- Consistency, hence all the icons are square. **  - ** ‘Record’ icon is different from ‘play recording’ Graphic of film strip distinguishes it. **  - ** Adding Music/sound is different than adjusting the sound level while viewing the recording. Graphic on the iconillustrates the point. **  - ** Importance of colours -using ‘red’ for stop is naturally understood ** - ** Importance of graphic- using a graphic for taking a video distinguishes it from the button ‘viewing the video’ ** - ** Our users may want to import video from cloud hence an icon for ‘cloud’ is created. ** ** Thanks Vg. ** **Back button** Forward button

Add Music

Adjust sound level

Record

Play Recording Stop

Take a video

Get from cloud

Import/ buy online??