Becoming a Good Tutorial Designers

How to Become a Good Tutorial Designer?
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
4th Grade
Martin J. Gottlieb Day School

What is a Designer?

Written Directions

3 Pieces of Paper
- http://kimcofino.com/blog/2011/02/27/students-as-teachers-6th-grade-tutorial-designers/
Thank you to Kim Cofinofor idea

Paper #1
Draw something…
…not too complicated…
…not too simple…
Thank you to Kim Cofinofor idea- http://kimcofino.com/blog/2011/02/27/students-as-teachers-6th-grade-tutorial-designers/

Paper #2
Write Step-by-Step direction of WHAT you drew

Paper #3
Exchange your directions with a classmate. Follow their directions to draw on your paper #3 what they described.

Creating Step-by-Step Directions

Comparison of Drawings

Student Observation
Confusing
Proofread
More detailed direction
Specific
Order of Steps
Size & shape details
Location

Tutorial Design Techniques
What did they use?
Details
What Colors?
How did they do that?
Language used?
How did they film?

Watch Examples of Tutorials
Blogs in Plain Englishhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
Russian Peasant Method of Multiplicationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrUCL7tGKaI
Building History: The Muetter Museumhttp://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/The_Mtter_Museum_-A_Timeline-

Techniques for Tutorials- Student Summary
colors
clear voice
watch the speed
background colors
review
explain different ways
give details
good step by step
explain at the beginning what tutorial will be about
you can use a dry erase board- take one picture of every change
film with little paper pieces and use fingers to move pieces in and out

Oral Directions

Groups of Two or Three
Separate
yourself
with a
barrier

Give instructions to your partner(s) by telling them what to do.

Student Observations
Details about how to write the math problem on the paper.
Be serious, don’t be goofy.
Be specific where you draw lines
Be exact
Double check your problem
Vertical or horizontal problem writing

What is Next?Step- by –Step
Get into groups
Group decides what type of tutorial they want to create
What techniques to use
Decide what equipment to use (Camera?Flip?Illustrations?SmartBoard?WhiteBoard?Laptop?)
Create step-by-step script of directions
Edit & revise script
Create storyboard of movie
Rehearse script
Produce movie

Improve Tutorial with Feedback from Friends
List the things in the tutorial that helped you understand better?
What did the designer do well? Why was it good?
What was hard to understand? Why wasn’t it helpful?

Storyboarding

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Becoming a Good Tutorial Designers

by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano on Mar 08, 2011

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