enhance your it course with video tutorials: a systems analysis example
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Enhance Your IT Course with Video Tutorials:A Systems Analysis Example
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Video Learning Sessions
2010
Part 1: Background
Part 2: Create your own tutorials
Part 3: SAD 8e Video Learning Sessions
Overview
Part 1: Background
In the classroom, I often spend 70% of my time on 30% of the topics …
The concern:
If a topic is difficult in the classroom, it is even more challenging for online students.
The concern:
“The Age of the Sage on the Stage is Ending.”
Author: Larry Donnithorne
President, College of the Albemarle
Circa 1997
The concern:
The Kahn Academy
Salman Kahn: Brilliant, dedicated educator, and business executive.
His non-profit organization has created thousands of free tutorials.
The technique is simple and effective. www.khanacademy.org/
The Kahn Academy
Self-paced tutorials for difficult topics Typical tasks with sample solutions
Possible Solution
Classroom Chalk-talk
Common Tutorial Styles
More structured Informal narration, but scripted Lots of graphics and live motion video Captures many software screens Integrates well with the textbook Provides sample tasks and solutions
The VLS Concept
Results were not impressive, but I learned a lot …Task PatternsEntity-Relationship Diagram
The VLS Concept
The VLS Concept
Results were not impressive, but I learned a lot …Task PatternsEntity-Relationship Diagram
Then, a new development …
Part 2: Create Your Own Tutorials
How much time will it take?
What software and hardware do I need?
Freeware: AutoScreenRecorder www.wisdom-soft.com
Camtasia Trial (30 days) www.techsmith.com
MS Sound Recorder - MS Paint Windows Moviemaker (XP/Vista version)
Software
Payware: AutoScreenRecorder Pro ($49.95) Camtasia Academic ($100 – 200)
Software
Microphone: Integral, USB, or sound card plug-in
Hardware
Steps
Plan Create Edit Produce
Plan
Start with the big picture – you are the writer, the producer, the director, and the star.
Plan
Use your classroom experience – you know what works.
Plan
Include sample tasks and answers for students can review – they should be same difficulty level as “real” tasks.Sample task
Sample answer
Plan
Decide when to use live motion video, images, or slide sequences.Live motion video
Plan
Decide when to use live motion video, images, or slide sequences.Images
Plan
Plan
Decide when to use live motion video, images, or slide sequences.Slide Sequences
First, reserve the meeting room. Then order the marketing materials and brief the managers. After the briefings, send out customer e-mails and burn sample DVDs. When the e-mails are sent and the DVDs are ready, load the new software.
When the marketing materials have arrived and the software is ready, do a dress rehearsal.
First, reserve the meeting room. Then order the marketing materials and brief the managers. After the briefings, send out customer e-mails and burn sample DVDs. When the e-mails are sent and the DVDs are ready, load the new software.
When the marketing materials have arrived and the software is ready, do a dress rehearsal.
First, reserve the meeting room. Then order the marketing materials and brief the managers. After the briefings, send out customer e-mails and burn sample DVDs. When the e-mails are sent and the DVDs are ready, load the new software.
When the marketing materials have arrived and the software is ready, do a dress rehearsal.
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First, reserve the meeting room. Then order the marketing materials and brief the managers. After the briefings, send out customer e-mails and burn sample DVDs. When the e-mails are sent and the DVDs are ready, load the new software.
When the marketing materials have arrived and the software is ready, do a dress rehearsal.
First, reserve the meeting room. Then order the marketing materials and brief the managers. After the briefings, send out customer e-mails and burn sample DVDs. When the e-mails are sent and the DVDs are ready, load the new software.
When the marketing materials have arrived and the software is ready, do a dress rehearsal.
Create
Set a goal for overall durationConsider student attention spans8 – 10 minutes seems to work wellBreak topics into smaller units
Create
Use PowerPoint as your development tool Create narration notes as you go along Easy to work with images, links, tables,
shapes, etc. Easy exchange with your other software
Create
Do the images and video first and import them into your capture program - then record the narration.
Create
Use and enhance textbook images if possible – add arrows, callouts, etc.Examples
Create
Create
Create
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Use specific textbook references to guide students to a page or figure.
Create
Make it interesting.
Use a classroom voice.
Some humor is fine.
Create
Use pause/resume to allow students time to answer.Example
Create
Create
Extend timing to give students more time.Example
Create
Try to see the tutorial through a student’s eyes – make it user-friendly.
Create
Create
Write a script, if that works for you.
Create
Edit
Focus on timing – try to match video and audio without long periods of inactivity.
The Goldilocks rule:Not TOO fast – consider the typical
reader.Not TOO slow – it’s no fun to stare at a
screen during a long explanation.Just right – easy to read and
understand.
Edit
To crop or not to crop – digital surgery can be difficult.
Edit
Save your work early, often, and in several versions as you go along. Backup, backup, backup!
Edit
Produce
Consider how the tutorial will be used –
CD, DVD, or online – and adjust settings accordingly.
Camtasia offers a Production Wizard to simplify the process.
Produce
Do you use BlackBoard or a similar platform? Can you import or link the tutorials?
Produce
Part 3: SAD 8e Video Learning Sessions
1996
Systems Analyst’s Toolkit
1999
Web-based Simulation Case Study
• Students visit a realistic Web site to receive e-mails and voice mails
• Each session has a to-do list with hands-on tasks• Students research an online data library to complete their tasks• Sample forms are provided for all key tasks
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Student Study Tool CD
2003
Expanded Project Management Coverage
2005
Dilbert Explains the “Real World”
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2009
2010
Introduction Part 2
TopicsData Design: ERDs Financial Tools: Payback Analysis
Data Design: First Normal Form Financial Tools: Return on Investment
Data Design: Second Normal Form Financial Tools: Present Value Analysis
Data Design: Third Normal Form Project Management: Work Breakdown Structures
Decision Tables Project Management: Task Patterns
DFD Symbols and Diagrams Project Management: Critical Path Analysis
DFD Context Diagrams
DFD Diagram 0
SAD 8e Video Learning Sessions
How can I use this new feature?
SAD 8e Video Learning Sessions
Where do we go from here? More topics – we need your feedback! Text / video integration? Interactivity? Sharing our experiences - SAD blog?
SAD 8e Video Learning Sessions
Where do we go from here? What will our future students be like? How will they learn? How will we teach?
My e-mail address: [email protected]
SAD 8e Video Learning Sessions
Enhance your IT Course with Video Tutorials:A Systems Analysis Example