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Subject:Re: Teaching without seeming to teach! From:"George F. Hayhoe" <george -at- GHAYHOE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:09:04 -0400
In response to my question of how to teach unfamiliar
concepts, Geoff Hart suggested wizards. I agree that wizards
are an effective way to help users perform tasks, but the
wizard implementations I've seen don't really teach people
how to perform the task without the wizard's help.
Further, a wizard doesn't teach the underlying concept; it
just steps the user through the task.
But I think this is a good start. Is there a conceptual
equivalent to the procedural wizard?
