Camtasia

1. Camtasia Bringing life to tutorials!

2. Objectives • How visuals assist learning • Advantages of video tutorials • How to prepare a video tutorial • Tips for recording a video tutorial • Examples of the good, the bad, and the really bad

3. Why Use Visual Tutorials • Can't people, especially adults, just read or hear what you have to say andunderstandandremember?

4. Why Use Visual Tutorials 3 hours after accessing information: • Without visuals 70% • With visuals 85%

5. Why Use Visual Tutorials 10 days after accessing information: • Without visuals 10% • With visuals 65%

6. Why Use Visual Tutorials Our Information: • 6 % through touch, taste, and smell • 11 % through hearing • 83 % through sight

7. Why Use Visual Tutorials • The human brain processes visuals 400,000 times faster than text (Source: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1998. )

8. Why Use Visual Tutorials • Use of visuals can improve learning by up to 400 % (Source: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1998. )

9. Why Use Visual Tutorials • I’ll smell you next week!

10. Why Use Visual Tutorials Good visual tutorials: • avoid misconceptions by illustrating • focus attention • save time • show concepts, places, and new experiences not easily explained • make learning easier and more enjoyable

11. Why Use Visual Tutorials • Our goal: recreate the intensity and realism of an in-person communication experience

12. Why Use Visual Tutorials Video Tutorials: • reduce required training time • ensure uniform instruction • users can review the tutorial as often as necessary • beneficial to users whose native language is not English • viewable on or off site at the learner’s convenience • users can self-conduct a refresher session simply by reviewing a tutorial

13. PowerPoint to Video Why? • Provide a take-home video of your narrated presentation on CD-ROM or DVD. • Record and post your presentation online - students and parents can review assignments at their convenience. • Create PowerPoint-based how-to videos for colleagues and students who are learning to use new software.

14. Getting Started Know Your Audience • age • gender • education • Occupation Consider Problems for Concern • socio-economic background • physical challenges – poor eye-sight, hearing

15. Getting Started Identify Your Objectives • What do you hope to accomplish? • What is the situation now? • What is the optimum situation? • What must happen to bridge this gap? • What will the user know after using the tutorial that they don’t know now?

16. Getting Started Develop a Storyboard • Planning reduces the need for subsequent editing and manipulation. • Break the procedure down into small steps. • Organize a step by step tutorial for the procedure. • Develop a script to verbalize your steps. • Test your directions.

17. KISS • Keep It Simple, Stupid • The content of your presentation should be clear and simple • easy to understand • clear and simple language also benefits people whose first language differs from your own • this includes persons who communicate in sign language

18. KISS • Craft message in a Word document (outline) • Set up Spelling and Grammar checker: • Select Tools > Options > Spelling and Grammar • Check the Show Readability Statistics box • Click OK • Spelling and Grammar check now provides a readability statistics box

19. KISS

20. KISS • Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level - 10 or lower • The Flesch Reading Ease score - 60 is eighth-grade reading level

21. KISS • “Why use a $100 word when a $1 word will do?” http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/octnews/oc030602.html • Download Bullfighter at http://www.fightthebull.com/.

22. Examples • Keep the length short and file size small • 0.  Some tips for Investment Analytics Homework #1--portfolio optimizer. (230 MB -- 42 minutes) • 1.  Setting up your investment game portfolio using MSN Investor's portfolio tracking software (77 MB -- 16 minutes)2.  Retrieving stock price data from Yahoo!, putting it into Excel, and computing standard deviation and returns (63 MB -- 7 minutes) • 3.  Running regressions using Excel (68 MB--11 minutes) • 4.  Additional instructions for the optimizer project (173 MB--26 minutes)      

23. Recording • Set aside enough time • Experiment with the microphone - different volume levels and placement settings • Record in a quiet location • Wait until the Recorder shows that frames are advancing before speaking

24. Recording • Introduce yourself with contact information if relevant • Speak slowly and enunciate properly • When talking about areas of the screen, be as descriptive as possible • Be cautious about mentioning colors when giving directions

25. PowerPoint to Video Tips for live recordings • Start the recording paused • Play once in slideshow mode to cache to memory

26. Briefly Summarize • Summarize main points • What user can now do • When user might use this information

27. Evaluation • Evaluate your presentation • analysis of the audience • accuracy of content • choice of delivery methods • Revise in any way necessary • to improve the tutorial • Constant review and revision will help to improve any future tutorials and presentations. Evaluation Method:

28. Examples • Needs much improvement! • Needs improvement. • OK • Better (we knew it would be!).

29. In Conclusion • Steps, Script, Notes • Summary • Evaluation • Analysis of Audience • Introduction • Objective(s) • Major Task

30. Contact Linda Wapelhorst Butler Community College 715 E. 13th Andover, KS 67002 316-218-6202 lwapelhorst@butlercc.edu