Re: how useful are video tutorials/screencasts?

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I'm with you on this.  Videos can be useful for demonstrating how to do some
complex mechanical tasks, but it annoys the hell out of me to click on a
link that should be leading to a words-and-picture procedure that I could
read in 30 seconds and have it go to a four-minute YouTube video.

Gene Kim-Eng


On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Phil Stokes <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>wrote:

> Equally, I'm interested in your gut-feeling as a user about these. I use
> video tutorials for some students in my teaching work, but oddly I don't
> like using them myself. Recent example: looking for a quick procedure for
> installing an OS on an external drive, and the first three Google hits were
> Youtube vids. I don't want to watch a video; its too time consuming both as
> an experience and in terms of wasting processor time compared to loading a
> simple blog page with step 1 to 5 in text.
>
>
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