If a picture paints a thousand words, then an interactive moving stream of pictures (a.k.a. an animation) must paint billions. Seeing someone do something is more powerful in terms of learning that simply seeing still pictures. That’s why from now on I’ll be using the excellent freeware program Wink for my guides…. :)

When I went over to Toulouse to contribute to the E-HELP project I fairly blown away by Andrew Field’s ‘virtual’ presentation which he put together using Adobe (formerly) Macromedia Captivate. Unfortunately, it’s expensive. But Wink, a freeware program made by someone in their spare time has all the features one would need, creating professional-looking guides. The software really is easy to use for anyone who’s ever used an office suite. So all that’s left for me to do is to show a couple of examples…

The first is simply a brief guide to adding an RSS feed to Firefox as a ‘live bookmark’:

The second is a quick guide to using the OneDamnThing.org.uk wiki set up by Ed Podesta for History teaching pedagogy: