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Design An Information Literacy Tutorial ON A Scott Breivold Catherine Haras 10/29/07 California Library Association Today’s outcomes To help you plan a low-cost tutorial using your brainpower and a few software tools Your outcomes? Why design your own?

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  1. Design An Information Literacy Tutorial ON A Scott Breivold Catherine Haras 10/29/07 California Library Association

  2. Today’s outcomes • To help you plan a low-cost tutorial using your brainpower and a few software tools • Your outcomes?

  3. Why design your own? • To reach your own special audience • Another way of providing instruction to your community • There’s nothing out there on your topic

  4. First steps:Audience • Who is your audience? • What is their information need? • Is a tutorial the best way to reach your audience? • How will the tutorial be used? • Is there another tutorial that already does the job? ~MERLOT

  5. First steps: Staff & equipment • How many staff can you devote to this project? • Consider workload • An average tutorial = X hours • What $$ may be safely earmarked? • Basic equipment needs • Software • Hardware

  6. Plan your tutorial Who is your audience? • Demographics matter • 51% Latino/a • 20% Asian • English language learners • Focus groups held July 2006 • Animation • Simple representation of the research

  7. Coming up with a concept • What concepts do you want to teach? • Most intensive part of the process • Planning takes time but saves money • Worth the extra effort to do the thinking up front • How will this tutorial be used? • ADA compliance

  8. Developing your tutorial • Brainstorm the concept • Keep it simple • Look at the ACRL outcomes • Create your own outcomes for the tutorial • Storyboards may help • Write the content • Two scripts were needed for voice, visuals • Less words the better • Try to “see” and “hear” your tutorial • Consider a glossary • Audience will determine language level

  9. Developing your tutorial • Create a timeline • Consult with… • Web team • Experts who can help with content • Computer geeks who can help with software • Administration • Faculty (if on a campus) • Local community users

  10. Developing our tutorial: Software/Hardware Tools we used • Photo/image editing software • Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc. • MS PowerPoint • Screen capturing software • Camtasia Studio • Adobe Captivate • Robust Computer • Headset/microphone

  11. Software Options $100 $300 $300 -- Less expensive options are available . . .

  12. The process . . . • Created a PowerPoint presentation with our content, images, etc. • Used image editing software to manipulate images, crop photos, etc. • Recorded the PPT slides w/the Camtasia plug-in, then imported the video into Camtasia Studio • Added voice narration & background music to the presentation

  13. The process . . . • Used Camtasia Studio to convert each tutorial segment to Flash • Incorporated the Flash segments into an HTML page • Used a simple javascript to launch a new window with the flash presentations inside

  14. what about copyright? • We used clipart, photos we took ourselves, elements from TILT, & royalty-free stock photos we purchased from: www.photos.com • We purchased royalty-free background music tracks from: www.uniquetracks.com

  15. Camtasia Studio tips • View the online tutorials & quick-start movies (more than once if needed) • Record the slides first (using the PPT plug-in) then add the audio narration later • A little background music can really enrich the tutorial Don’t be afraid to make mistakes – experiment with the software and have fun with it!

  16. how the tutorial is presented on our website Click image above to launch the tutorial in your browser

  17. Implementing your tutorial • Test your tutorial • Another focus group may be necessary • Ask the opinion of your target audience • Don’t be afraid to make changes • Manage your tutorial • One librarian should be responsible • Keep content and web links current

  18. Click here for our handout

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