Group Leadership Project: Jing Tutorial

Our group selected Screencast-O-Matic to capture demonstrating and narrating the features of Jing.  Using the screencast allowed for the viewer to actually see what the process will look like as the different steps and features were modeled and described.  With several unsuccessful attempts combining both the narration and visual models, I decided to capture the video and audio separately using Camtasia Studio.  Audacity was used to clean up the narration using the "noise removal" feature.  The video published above was produced using Camtasia to edit together the screencast and narration.  This allowed for smoother transitions, mistakes that were edited out, and a more professional representation of what Jing offers.

Working on this tutorial reaffirmed that the content, in many respects, is just as important as the delivery and modeling of the information.  Creating tutorials requires much the same thought process as lesson planning.  The audience must be considered.  Before creating the final product, it needs to be determined who the tutorial is intended for and the previous knowledge and experiences with technology anticipated.  Revisiting our tutorial, our group anticipated viewers to be familiar with computers and accessing the internet to download files as our tutorial began by encouraging viewers to download Jing.  Thinking through the development of the tutorial labeling these types of experiences as professional learning seems more fitting as considerations similar to those used in lesson planning occurred.  

In the future, I would be intentional about thinking through the tutorial itself as a professional learning experience.  Camtasia Studio offers different features which I would also include in the tutorial such as quizzing.  This would provide the viewer with a way to quickly self assess personal progress and understanding.  Additionally, I would consider captioning the tutorial to make it accessible to a greater population of people.