Proposal Module 2:
Online Video Tutorials for My Ramapo Calendar

Designer:

Trish Williams
My Ramapo/Luminis Project Co-lead
Team Implementation Specialist
Instructional Design Center
Ramapo College of New Jersey
pwilliam@ramapo.edu

Design Stage: Planning & Proposal

Proposal in Wire-Frame (concept map)

Technologies:

• HTML, CSS, video files (not sure what video file format since we haven't looked at software yet) tutorials will record video of screen capture with accompanying text callout instruction or audio narration. Text files for ADA compliancy for any translation of audio narration.
• Swish for animated graphic

Color Choices: main background:#CCCC99 , text background: #FFFFFF, sidebar background: #999966, header background: #990000, body text: #000000, headlines #990000, #009999

See color chart visual

Font Choices: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, San Serif

Inspiration Sites:
Logo Inspiration: http://my.ramapo.edu
Color Inspiration: http://my.ramapo.edu, http://www.ramapo.edu
Content Inspiration: http://my.ramapo.edu
Image Sites: http://my.ramapo.edu

 

Design Stage: Pedagogy Elements

Target lesson:

To provide online tutorials to train users in various features of the My Ramapo calendar, including some basic and advanced features.

Target audience:

Ramapo College Faculty and staff would be primary users of the calendar tutorials. Many staff are new users of the portal so may have limited knowledge of this tool. Some faculty and staff may have limited experience with technology in general. Many administrators have their secretaries co-manage their calendars, so need to be trained in advanced calendar sharing options. The College has never had a common, shared calendar application before, so some users may not be familiar with calendar applications at all, and others may be familiar with google calendar, iCal, Outlook or other calendar applications.

Ramapo College Students: Most students pick up online technology quickly on their own, so they may not be the primary audience. However, returning adult students may be potential users of these tutorials, as well as international students from countries with limited technology.

Learning objectives and teaching strategies:

I plan to teach some basic and advanced features of the calendar.

Online Tutorials - I will record screen capture of my actions which will show how to perform specific functions in the portal calendar. These video tutorials will either have accompanying audio explanation or text callouts ( I am not sure which at this point.). Common uses of the tool in the College will be touched on to provide sense and meaning.

I will break the tutorials into a series of short clips so users can choose to watch just a particular tutorial movie, or the entire module.

The tutorials will be linked and added to the My Ramapo Tutorials Web site created in module 1.

These tutorials will stand alone, as well as supplement the screen shot tutorials and pdf versions of the tutorials created in module 1, the web-based user guide and hands-on workshops offered on campus each semester.

This module will allow a choice based on the users preferred learning style between video tutorials in this module or, web page tutorials with still screen captures or printed versions in module 1.

Navigation will allow users to navigate back to other calendar tutorial topics, to self-assessment, to the user guide, or to My Ramapo login page.

Tutorials will hope to attain the following retention rates after 24 hrs:

• Audiovisual 20% (images and colors in web pages)
• Practice by doing 75% (user can practice by logging into the calendar and practicing what is shown in the tutorials by having 2 windows open at once, My Ramapo and the tutorial)

Assessment - Web-based self-assessment allows user to immediately test their knowledge on the topic before or after taking tutorials. Assessment provides opportunity for feedback and re-teaching if necessary. This informal self-assessment should not be intimidating to users. I plan on linking to the self-assessment created from module 1 since module 2 tutorials cover the same topics from module 1.

Design Stage: Mechanics and Implementation

The tutorials will be linked and added to the My Ramapo Tutorials Web site created in module 1. The site will contain a tutorial homepage which will introduce the tutorials, provide links to the video tutorial topics, HTML screen capture tutorial topics, as well as links to PDF versions of all tutorials for printing. A link to an online self-assessment will be provided for users to test their knowledge.

If I use audio narration, I will provide accompanying text file for ADA compliancy.

Individual video tutorials will be created for each of the following calendar topics:

1. Intro to Calendar Basics

2. Managing Calendar Events

3. Managing Tasks

4. Creating & Removing Calendars

5. Subscribing to Calendars

6. Combine Calendars with Calendar Sets

7. Calendar Sharing

8. Calendar Settings/Options

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Author: Trish Williams
Last updated: 3/25/08

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