Creating Tutorials

[artdutra04]

You could use http://www.instructables.com/ and link to it in a discussion thread on CD. It's a widely used website and may get exposure beyond the FRC community.

[Tom Line]

If you are creating tutorials with speech while you program, I would strongly suggest looking at FRC Mastery to get an idea of how to produce a professional looking tutorial. They use camtasia. If you are looking for static tutorials, those are fairly simple to create with a little HTML knowledge and a little skill in MS paint.

1718 FRC Labview Tutorial

[DonRotolo]

Adobe Captivate is a great program; it is not free but they offer a free trial. Excellent for screen captures with animation, mouse movement and clicks. Not so good with actual video.

Before picking a tool (any tool), first write your script: what exactly will each screen show, what images and text will appear on screen, and what voice-over will be there. That will help you figure out which tool might be best, and it will minimize the time spent actually creating it. My 2 cents'