I don't like video. I can't be bothered with video. I don't want to spend four minutes plus watching some permatanned robot reading out what I could read for myself in seconds.
Bah, humbug. I think I'm getting old.
you are the media you consume.
between one and two orders of magnitude slower than written text.
lol, would that be 1.5 orders of magnitude?
my slide rule melted... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
speed reading is so last century, speed-vidding the way forward, onwards and downwards... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
But it must be successful for some people, as the videos are showing up more and more.
But then again, I still buy two newspapers a day so I'm real old-school. keep to the Fen Causeway
I've had a 'we're moving away from text towards movies' diary simmering for a while now.
Maybe I should post it on YouTube.
Kewl! And instead of comments we can post mashups (and LOLcaptioned screenshots, natch)! The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
It's the One True Web 2.0 Way™.
Also - kittens.
Someone or the other I was reading recently said that some people learn better from video tutorials than screenshot and text and some don't. So he/she produces both and was being pleased about a piece of software that made that easier.
Actually, I don't mind overview tutorials in video.
Most of us have a dominant style (I am quite strongly kinaesthetic), though we have elements of all three, and that mixture varies according to subject. But a well-planned lesson/training session (for children or adults) should, according to current theory, include elements of all three learning styles in order to play to every learner's strengths.
