Why Some Tutorials Are Annoying

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… and sooo true!

Haha, love it!

A great idea so badly executed, video like this on youtube really exists? Let me see, video from Ripple or this??? Damn such a hard choice..

OMG! ROFLMFAO!!!!!

As a very long time educator, this is why I tell folks never rely on YouTube for training. I got my degree in educational psychology, I've taught actual scholastic classes, I use to help my mother design tests, I've done 3 decades of technical training in the 1-4 day seminar format, plus college courses lasting a whole semester. There's more to "teaching" than just running through crap like a dumass. So I'll explain what makes a good video tutorial.

But before I explain what makes a good tutorial video, first, you have to understand what a video is, that the tutorial will be made out of. It is a series of still images, like photographs, or little drawings, that flash one at a time, at a steady pace, very quickly, to create the illusion of...

BenB wrote: … But before I explain what makes a good tutorial video, first, you have to understand what a video is, …

ROTFL! :woohoo:

… to waste some time with a good laugh, I sometimes read in the fora of a board focussed on the engineering of video; sometimes a poor soul asks for 'advice for a new camera' … and latest on pg2 of such threads, the 'Big Brains' pontificate about photons, Fourier analysis and whatsoever.....

… what additionally kills me are those ADHS-mouse-users - showing a screenshot, talking, talking, talking, nothing happens, but the mouse makes miles on the screen!!!

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Perfect and very well demonstrated!

They really nailed it with having a guy whose first language clearly isn't English doing the tutorial. For some reason most tutorials on YouTube are done by guys whose accents make most of the information unintelligible.

haha loved it. Gonna show it to some friends who would agree. Thanks!