Instructional Technology Conference 2008

Title: Creating Automated Tutorials for Online Technology Classes.

Name: Jason G. Caudill

Audience Level: All

Audience: General

Length: 3 hours

Abstract:
It has been demonstrated that technology courses make the transition from traditional to online delivery formats more easily than others. One of the best ways to teach technology is to use demonstrations of the technology that students will be using. Attendees to this session will learn to use a freeware screen capture software package that can be used to create automated tutorials as used in the presenter's experiences in online technology classes.

Description:
This pre-conference workshop will introduce participants to the use of freeware screen capture software, Debugmode's Wink. Participants will receive copies of the software and be actively engaged in every level of the program's use from the initial installation through the recording and editing of an interactive tutorial to the exporting of the finished tutorial to multiple file formats for distribution.

Automated tutorials are applicable to a wide variety of applications but are particularly useful for online instruction in technology. Demonstrating a process in a computer program can be done in a much shorter time, and often with much greater effectiveness, than a text description of the same process. To accomplish this online and asynchronously it is necessary to employ a screen capture software package that allows the user to record and annotate their actions.

Participants in this session will work interactively with the presenter to develop an automated tutorial about using functions in Microsoft Word. Some of the details that participants will learn about include choosing the screen area to capture, selecting user inputs to trigger a capture, editing the captured images, creating custom dialog boxes and adding them to the presentation, adding navigational elements, and exporting the presentation in Flash, HTML, or PDF formats.

Session Type: Pre-conference workshop

Contact information/affiliation:
Jason G. Caudill
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Carson-Newman College
2130 Branner Ave.
Jefferson City, TN 37760
Box 71887
(865) 329-7803
jason@jasoncaudill.com
www.jasoncaudill.com

Equipment: Windows computers with CD-ROM drives and install privileges for users. Speakers would be helpful but are not required.

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