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This is a checklist for someone who\u2019s been asked to train people at a centre to make a digital story and to leave some skills behind so people at that centre can continue to make stories after the initial trainer\u2019s moved on\u2026<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t expect every machine at most centres in this country to be capable of producing video. That may not be\u00c2 a problem though. Here are examples of questions to ask about the computers:<\/p>\n

– got both Firewire and USB 2 ports?
\n– got more that 512MB of ram?
\n– got soundcard and video card?
\n– got hard drive of more than 40GB?
\n– got DVD burner?
\n– are administrator permissions set up so video can be stored and produced?
\n– got the same software as in the instruction manuals left behind there?
\n– etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a checklist for someone who\u2019s been asked to train people at a centre to make a digital story and to leave some skills behind so people at that centre can continue to make stories after the initial trainer\u2019s moved on\u2026 I wouldn\u2019t expect every machine at most centres in this country to be capable of producing video. That may not be\u00c2 a problem though. Here are examples of questions to ask about the computers: – got both Firewire and USB 2 ports? – got more that 512MB of ram? – got soundcard and video card? – got hard drive of more than 40GB? – got DVD burner? – are administrator permissions set up so video can be stored and produced? – got the same software as in the instruction manuals left behind there? – etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nSomeone else\u2019s kit - Aberth Digital Storytelling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/someone-elses-kit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Someone else\u2019s kit - Aberth Digital Storytelling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a checklist for someone who\u2019s been asked to train people at a centre to make a digital story and to leave some skills behind so people at that centre can continue to make stories after the initial trainer\u2019s moved on\u2026 I wouldn\u2019t expect every machine at most centres in this country to be capable of producing video. 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