Camtasia

Bringing life to tutorials!

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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

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

• Can't people, especially adults, just read or hear

what you have to say andunderstand

andremember?

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

3 hours after accessing information:

• Without visuals 70%

• With visuals 85%

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

10 days after accessing information:

• Without visuals 10%

• With visuals 65%

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

Our Information:

• 6 % through touch, taste, and smell

• 11 % through hearing

• 83 % through sight

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

• The human brain processes visuals

400,000 times

faster than text

(Source: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1998. )

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

• Use of visuals can improve learning by up to

400 %

(Source: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1998. )

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

• I’ll smell you next week!

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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

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Why Use Visual Tutorials

• Our goal:

recreate the intensity

and realism of an

in-person communication experience

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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

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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.

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Getting Started

Know Your Audience• age• gender• education• Occupation

Consider Problems for Concern• socio-economic background• physical challenges – poor eye-sight, hearing

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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?

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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.

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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

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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

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KISS

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KISS

– Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level - 10 or lower

– The Flesch Reading Ease score - 60 is eighth-grade reading level

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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/.

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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)      

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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

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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

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PowerPoint to Video

Tips for live recordings

• Start the recording paused

• Play once in slideshow mode to cache to memory

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Briefly Summarize

• Summarize main points

• What user can now do

• When user might use this information

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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:

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Examples

• Needs much improvement!

• Needs improvement.

• OK

• Better (we knew it would be!).

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In Conclusion

• Analysis of Audience

• Introduction

• Objective(s)

• Major Task

• Steps, Script, Notes

• Summary

• Evaluation

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Contact

Linda WapelhorstButler Community College715 E. 13th Andover, KS 67002316-218-6202lwapelhorst@butlercc.edu