TIMELY TUTORIALS
WITHOUT TOO
MUCH TIME
E L I Z A B E T H F OX
S O U T H D A K O 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?
FORMAT DECISION
To create, or not to create:
that is the question.
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
SUMMING UP PART I
WAKEY, WAKEY
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
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- 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/piercemartin/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
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• 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