The first tutorial is now live on the library web site! There's been no promo on it or anything yet, but it's there. The Research Tutorials link on the nav bar has now been changed to go to the new tutorials page, which links to the first one.
I have the slides done for the second tutorial and am now working on creating the quiz questions. Then I still have the narration to do and the accessibility. Still, it's come along quite nicely, I think.
I've asked my chair for feedback on the first tutorial but haven't heard anything yet. Part of me wonders if that's a bad sign...No, I'm sure it's just that she's been busy. I was pleased with how it came out. It's always hard knowing, though, if what you have in your head, that you had planned, translates into what someone else is expecting.
We shall see...
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Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Books!
I was thrilled to find my new Adobe Captivate books waiting for me when we got back home this week. I am especially pleased with Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3, which is, in a sense, a student workbook. While we were travelling, I was trying to struggle through creating slides for the first tutorial but was not at all happy with the results. I have since scrapped that initial project and am working through the first, basic lessons in this book first. This is allowing me to get a much better feel for how Captivate works, all it's possibilities, and how to best lay out a project *before* one starts to attempt to record it.
The downside to this is that I had expected to have a completed project done by this time, ready for testing. Although I had completed the project, it was not satisfactory and I was in no way satisfied with it. Since the program itself isn't difficult to operate, I have high hopes that once I have this additional "learning curve" out of the way (I hadn't thought to see if there was anyway to set preferences and I had obviously recorded things at the wrong screen resolution and recording area, which then caused problems in trying to view things.) Obviously, it's best to begin at the beginning and actually get some education on the program before jumping in in order to get the best results, which is what I want.
It's the frustration I was feeling in trying to get things to turn out the way I wanted (and they weren't) that has led to the lack of updates on this blog recently. Things are moving forward nicely again now, albeit in not quite the way I'd anticipated at this juncture, so I'm looking forward to lots more positive updates!
The downside to this is that I had expected to have a completed project done by this time, ready for testing. Although I had completed the project, it was not satisfactory and I was in no way satisfied with it. Since the program itself isn't difficult to operate, I have high hopes that once I have this additional "learning curve" out of the way (I hadn't thought to see if there was anyway to set preferences and I had obviously recorded things at the wrong screen resolution and recording area, which then caused problems in trying to view things.) Obviously, it's best to begin at the beginning and actually get some education on the program before jumping in in order to get the best results, which is what I want.
It's the frustration I was feeling in trying to get things to turn out the way I wanted (and they weren't) that has led to the lack of updates on this blog recently. Things are moving forward nicely again now, albeit in not quite the way I'd anticipated at this juncture, so I'm looking forward to lots more positive updates!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Research begins
Amidst getting our air conditioning running again, I've been reviewing my sabbatical timeline and looking at beginnings. Turns out that one of the books I thought I'd ordered, I hadn't so I popped onto Amazon to order Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3. While there, I discovered that there is a brand new (as in July 2008) book, Adobe Captivate 3: The Definitive Guide, out so I ordered both books to be sent to me ASAP.
I also printed out a number of articles to review, on instructional design with regards to online tutorials. Also to be reviewed are the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education, which are now printed out and ready for notes and highlighting. Obviously, I'm going to be doing a lot of reading over the next few days.
I also printed out a number of articles to review, on instructional design with regards to online tutorials. Also to be reviewed are the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education, which are now printed out and ready for notes and highlighting. Obviously, I'm going to be doing a lot of reading over the next few days.
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