TIMELY TUTORIALS

WITHOUT TOO MUCH TIME

E L I Z A B E T H F OX

S O U T H D A KO TA S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y

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?

ConceptualHow-to

FORMAT DECISION

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

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

Short

Easy to find what is needed

Best format

SUMMING UP PART I

WAKEY, WAKEY

1. Work on a tutorial outline together

2. Ask questions – general or about tutorials you need to create

3. Look at some existing tutorials

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 – WYSIWYG

– Coffee Cup Web Editor - WYSIWYG

– Brackets for Mac – Code (great with Bootstrap)

– Word

IMAGES

• Graphics programs

– GIMP

– Inkscape

• Color matching

– Color Cop (Windows)

– Color Picker (Mac)

VIDEOS AND AUDIO

• Jing

• Screencast-O-Matic

• Many others that use pictures and put them together to make a video

• Audacity

EXAMPLES• Games:

– http://depts.washington.edu/trio/quest/citation/apa_mla_citation_game/index.htm

– http://mville.libguides.com/c.php?g=370033&p=2500965

– https://www.lib.jmu.edu/tictactoe/

 

• Web tutorials

– http://www.library.kent.edu/library-congress-tutorial-call-number-and-shelving

– http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/scholarly-articles/include/images/macFFBgHack.png

 

• Videos

– http://libguides.sdstate.edu/c.php?g=318082&p=2124240

 

• Illustrations

– https://www.insidehighered.com/cartoon_caption

• Songs

– http://matheatre.com/

ATTRIBUTIONS

• Segments image: "Citrus fruits" by Scott Bauer, USDA - This image was released by the Agricultural Research Service, the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, with the ID K7226-29 (next).This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.English | français | македонски | +/−. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citrus_fruits.jpg#/media/File:Citrus_fruits.jpg

 

• Audience image: no attribution required – pixaby free image

 

• Goal image: Sean MacEntee. www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4805089632

• Shakespeare: By unbekannt nach einem Gemälde. (Carte de Visite - Foto 5,4 x 8,3 cm. Nr.1198.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

 

• Dollar Sign – no attribution required – pixaby free image

 

• Copyright – Langwitches. www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3911878879

 

• Sledding image - LumiLinna Snow Hotel; Kemi Finland. Date: 23 March 2013, 22:01. Source: Sledding... Author: Christine Zenino from Chicago, US https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sledding_at_LumiLinna.jpg

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Happy sledders image - Pierce Martin Alpine Sledding. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierce-martin/6718574081

• Sleeping student image - By Pink Sherbet Photography from Utah, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

• College Students image - By Jefferson liffey (Lifey College) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

• Kids image – free Pixaby image

 

• Seniors as students - By Ulflarsen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

• Ruler image – By Biking Nikon SFO. https://www.flickr.com/photos/iliahi/408971482

• Web/globe image - By GNOME icon artists (HTTP / FTP) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

• Video image – free Pixaby image

 

• Activity Icon – By Army Medicine. https://www.flickr.com/photos/armymedicine/9688947414

 

• Key image - By Madboy74 (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons