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Richard.Baer |
Collaborative tutorials - part 2
Jun 9 2008, 7:37 PM EDT
How can you collaborate on a tutorial?You can be a content expert or you can be the one with the software license. When you are considering doing an animated tutorial, the project may seem daunting when you think of everything you need to do. Get an idea, write a script, then record it and do the editing. Even if you are pretty good with Captivate or Camtasia or Viewlet builder, the front end takes work. The planning is just as important as the recording, even more so. I saw in this wiki that Bill Badke had committed to do a tutorial on Research questions. I had no pressing project and am on Professional Development so can try new things. I proposed that we work together on this one. So, we split the work. Bill knows a lot about information literacy, I have developed my skills on Camtasia. We live 80 km apart so needed a virtual workspace. He wrote the script in his space on PBwiki and invited me as an editor. You can see the script at http://badke.pbwiki.com/Research-Questions After an unrecorded run through, I added a few sentences in places where I thought I needed more narration to cover the length of time that a slide needed to be on the screen. Slides and Camtasia were a new thing for me. I have used Camtasia as a way to capture a flow of changing computer screens. This project needed something else, so I created the visual part of the script in powerpoint, then recorded the narration as I clicked through the powerpoint show. If you are working with faculty and they can create content in powerpoint, that is probably an easier learning curve for them than working out a script for an internet search project. You can add the voice and do the production and uploading. The final product is at DSpace: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/46628 From my initial proposal to the completed project was about 6 or 7 days, so you can execute your ideas very quickly. Richard 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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