The document outlines the process of becoming a good tutorial designer, emphasizing the importance of planning, creating step-by-step directions, and utilizing observation and feedback. It includes a series of activities for students, such as drawing, writing instructions, and exchanging guides to enhance clarity in tutorial creation. Additionally, it discusses techniques and tools for designing effective tutorials, including storyboarding and using multimedia resources.

1. How to Become a Good Tutorial Designer?Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano4th GradeMartin J. Gottlieb Day School

2. What is a Designer?Has to think of something newcreateDoesn’t have to build itMake a planSomeone who thinks up something

3. Written Directions

4. 3 Pieces of Paper- http://kimcofino.com/blog/2011/02/27/students-as-teachers-6th-grade-tutorial-designers/Thank you to Kim Cofinofor idea

5. Paper #1Draw something……not too complicated……not too simple…

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

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

8. Creating Step-by-Step Directions

9. Comparison of Drawings

10. Comparison of Drawings

11. Student ObservationConfusingProofreadMore detailed directionSpecificOrder of StepsSize & shape detailsLocation

12. Tutorial Design TechniquesWhat did they use?DetailsWhat Colors?How did they do that?Language used?How did they film?

13. Watch Examples of TutorialsBlogs in Plain Englishhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXIRussian Peasant Method of Multiplicationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrUCL7tGKaIBuilding History: The Muetter Museumhttp://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/The_Mtter_Museum_-A_Timeline-

14. Techniques for Tutorials- Student Summarycolorsclear voicewatch the speedbackground colorsreviewexplain different waysgive detailsgood step by stepexplain at the beginning what tutorial will be aboutyou can use a dry erase board- take one picture of every changefilm with little paper pieces and use fingers to move pieces in and out

15. Oral Directions

16. Groups of Two or ThreeSeparate yourself with abarrier

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

18. Student ObservationsDetails about how to write the math problem on the paper.Be serious, don’t be goofy.Be specific where you draw linesBe exactDouble check your problemVertical or horizontal problem writing

19. What is Next?Step- by –Step Get into groupsGroup decides what type of tutorial they want to createWhat techniques to useDecide what equipment to use (Camera?Flip?Illustrations?SmartBoard?WhiteBoard?Laptop?)Create step-by-step script of directionsEdit & revise scriptCreate storyboard of movieRehearse scriptProduce movie

20. Improve Tutorial with Feedback from FriendsList 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?

21. Storyboarding