TIMELY TUTORIALS WITHOUT TOO MUCH TIME ELIZABETH FOX SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

TUTORIALS – WHAT DO WE MEAN? OED: b. Any period of tuition or training; a printed account or explanation of a subject intended for private study. Self-paced guided learning Videos Text pages/bulleted list of instructions

WHAT SHOULD WE MEAN? Videos Text/instructions Games Illustrations Songs Anything else that can inform and possibly entertain

HOW DO WE MAKE TUTORIALS SUSTAINABLE?

FORMAT DECISION To create, or not to create: that is the question.

LEGALLY USE ALREADY CREATED MATERIAL

CREATING YOUR OWN MATERIAL

GOALS What do you want your students to learn from your tutorial? What are the questions your students are likely to be asking that would drive them to your tutorial? Are those two things the same?

AUDIENCE

MAKING OUR TUTORIALS USEFUL

SUMMING UP PART I

WAKEY, WAKEY

CREATING YOUR TUTORIAL Focus on the goal Don’t include anything interesting but not necessary If-then statements tend to mean you should break your topic up (unless you are writing a trouble-shooting tutorial) Have others review it at multiple points in its creation –Videos – have people check over your script before you begin to create

WANT HELP? TECHNOLOGICAL HELP What do you think they created Google for? Web Editors –BlueGriffon – WYSIWYGBlueGriffon –Coffee Cup Web Editor - WYSIWYGCoffee Cup Web Editor –Brackets for Mac – Code (great with Bootstrap)Brackets for Mac –Word

IMAGES Graphics programs –GIMPGIMP –InkscapeInkscape Color matching –Color Cop (Windows)Color Cop –Color Picker (Mac)Color Picker

VIDEOS AND AUDIO Jing Screencast-O-Matic Many others that use pictures and put them together to make a video Audacity

EXAMPLES Games: – – – Web tutorials – – Videos – Illustrations – Songs –

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