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May. 29th, 2004 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usernamenumberOk, so for the last two weeks I've been working from home doing courseware. Up until a couple of days ago I was getting really frustrated that my progress lately has been so slow, but then I realized something: Unlike previous weeks I've been writing courseware for graphical applications instead of text stuff and the lesson I'm learning is that writing concise, text-based introductions to graphical applications is really friggin hard. I'd so much rather be writing about setting up RAID or something. But here I am trying to explain how to use office applications (OpenOffice.org, in this case). I got through the spreadsheet, word processor and presentation software ok, but it's really difficult to keep it concise without writing a book. I mean, if I'm going to cover feature A, why not feature B or feature C?
This is really difficult with OO.o's drawing program, which has a bunch of tools that have about equal chances of being useful depending on what you're doing with it. And each icon on the drawing iconbar expands to a bunch of other tools! The fact that I suck at making anything presentable in this application really doesn't help either. =:\
My attempts to concisely explain the expansion of the tools icons and their application in the creation of a document led me to make the image below. I thought I'd finally gotten something workable and of course it was preceeded by explanatory text, but when Lizbeth saw it she couldn't stop laughing and insisted that I display it to the world.
...that's intuitive, right?
...right?
*weep*
This is really difficult with OO.o's drawing program, which has a bunch of tools that have about equal chances of being useful depending on what you're doing with it. And each icon on the drawing iconbar expands to a bunch of other tools! The fact that I suck at making anything presentable in this application really doesn't help either. =:\
My attempts to concisely explain the expansion of the tools icons and their application in the creation of a document led me to make the image below. I thought I'd finally gotten something workable and of course it was preceeded by explanatory text, but when Lizbeth saw it she couldn't stop laughing and insisted that I display it to the world.
...that's intuitive, right?
...right?
*weep*
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Date: 2004-05-29 01:51 pm (UTC)Although I do think it could be better put to use if you were trying to teach someone to play Global Thermonuclear War.
surely you, if anyone, will have seen Wargames and will appreciate 80s tech movie humor like this...
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Date: 2004-05-29 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-29 06:38 pm (UTC)It was so reminding me of something, but airline routes was the closest I could get to putting my finger on it.
But shhh. This is just between you, me and Osama, ok?