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[oats-sig] Promoting OATS with video

Steve Lee steve at fullmeasure.co.uk
Mon Sep 10 17:42:32 BST 2007

Article: [oats-sig] Promoting OATS with video

that would be good as your gadgets looked cool form the piccies I saw.
Customisation could inspire others to find out how to use OATS.

On 10/09/2007, Karl Dean <headpointer at technowebs.co.uk> wrote:
> I like the 3 videos, afew months ago I was going to create one about my
> gadgets. I did start planning it but never got round to recording it yet but
> I'll one day. I must say my video will be more hip hop if you know what I
> mean.
>
> Cheers
> Karl
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Judge" <simon.judge at nhs.net>
> To: "'OATs Project Special Interest Group'" <oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 7:28 AM
> Subject: RE: [oats-sig] Promoting OATS with video
>
>
> > Nice idea.  Definitely something we'd like to contribute to in the long
> > term...  We've put some video case studies together as a starter:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/ywgytv
> > http://www.youtube.com/barnsleyat
> >
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> > [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
> > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:53 AM
> > To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
> > Subject: [oats-sig] Promoting OATS with video
> >
> > Looking at AbilityNet's collection of AT related videos on YouTube made me
> > realise that it would great to capitalise on the viral marketing
> > opportunities for OATS. An OATSoft YouTube channel is one possibility, but
> > we need more videos first. Some webcasts and videos are on other sites
> > like
> > Yahoo so a section on OATSoft with links back from the channels would be a
> > better solution.
> >
> > We could do with with a set of introductory videos and webcasts showing
> > the
> > benefits of OATS. There's already Dasher videos and we could add OATS such
> > as FireVox, Orca (with magnifier), GOK, SAW, PowerTalk etc. For end users
> > we
> > could show how easy it is to use. For clinical staff we could show how to
> > set up simple customisations
> > (AutoHotKey?)
> >
> > Does anyone have experience and/or the inkling to start this?
> >
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