Student Created Tutorials

Students will:

• Be able to create a short tutorial to demonstrate and teach something to others.
• Be able to share their knowledge with others.
• Understand how to use a step-by-step design process.
• Be able to evaluate their video artifact through the use of feedback from classmates and make improvements as indicated.
• Be able to reflect on the process and their results.

Vocabulary Words:

1. Innovative Artifact: An innovative artifact is an original project using a technology tool that is created to share information in a creative manner.

2. Design Process: The design process is a step-by-step design process that helps one to generate ideas, test them, and solve problems.

3. Digital Tools: The use of digital tools, such as video and screen capture, online templates to create an artifact.

4. Prototype: A prototype is the project draft that will be shared and shown for feedback for improvement.

5. Tutorial: A tutorial is intensive instruction given in some subject to an individual or a small group.

6. Perseverance: Perseverance is the continued effort that results in an improved artifact.

7. Video: Video is visual media using visual images.

To prepare for this lesson:

• Teacher shares some screencast tutorial examples made by students or do a live demo of your own.

  • San Diego Zoo

  • Green Screen Tutorial

• Review the Design Process in Action from PBS

• Provide paper or digital storyboard templates for students to draft their tutorial ideas.

• The teacher loads the Screencastify tool or other screencasting apps on student devices. (Chromebooks)

• The teacher introduces students to Screencastify using this video tutorial.

• For those districts that are not using Chromebooks, there are several excellent web tools to use.

• • ScreenPal 

  • Camtasia (licensing available)

• Here is a video showing how to edit the video using the Screencastify tools. 

See the Accommodations Page and Charts on the 21things4students website in the Teacher Resources. 

Directions for this activity:

1. Students participate in brainstorming ideas for short tutorials after they see the teacher provided or created examples. (This might be typing a spelling vocabulary word using a word processing program, this might be demonstrating something with a draw program, showing how to type in a search for an image on Pics4learning, etc.) KEEP IT SIMPLE

2. The teacher presents the steps in the design process and shares a template to be used.

3. A student selects a topic on something that they are good at and can explain or teach another person in three minutes or less using a computing device.

4. The teacher explains and shows the Design Process Chart:

   • Students identify the topic.

   • Explain who the tutorial is for, and who might benefit from their tutorial.

   • Review the elements in the Tutorial Rubric.

   • Write down their idea and tell it to a class partner to improve their ideas.

   • Write a script of what they will say.

   • Identify what they will show on the screen (the URL to a page).

   • Do two test runs without recording, using their computing device and narrating it, having their partner time it.

   • Record when ready.

   • Re-record as needed.

   • Share with the class and teacher

• Students can work in small groups or in partners as they work on their tutorial template.

• When ready to record, the student has loaded the icon for screencastify or another recording program.

• Click the Screencastify icon or start the recording. Click desktop or camera depending on what the student is recording.

• Click the record bar at the bottom.

• Student previews their video for thoroughness.

• The student shares the tutorial with others.

• The student writes a paragraph reflection on how the process went and the stumbling blocks they had to solve.

Different options for assessing the students:

• Observations
• Check for understanding

• Rubric made with specific teacher criteria.

  • Rubistar rubric

• 3-2-1 Strategy For Students

• Exit ticket Google forms.