These slides are a tutorial in itself. How to teach elementary school kids to be good tutorial designers? The slides were created as the lesson was progressing and used as a review and preview with and for the students.

1. How to Become a Good Tutorial Designer? Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano 4th Grade Martin J. Gottlieb Day School

2. What is a Designer? Has to think of something new create Doesn’t have to build it Make a plan Someone who thinks up something

3. Written Directions

4. 3 Pieces of Paper - http://kimcofino.com/blog/2011/02/27/students-as-teachers-6th-grade-tutorial-designers/ Thank you to Kim Cofinofor idea

5. Paper #1 Draw something… …not too complicated… …not too simple…

6. Paper #2 Write Step-by-Step direction of WHAT you drew

7. Paper #3 Exchange your directions with a classmate. Follow their directions to draw on your paper #3 what they described.

8. Creating Step-by-Step Directions

9. Comparison of Drawings

10. Comparison of Drawings

11. Student Observation Confusing Proofread More detailed direction Specific Order of Steps Size & shape details Location

12. Tutorial Design Techniques What did they use? Details What Colors? How did they do that? Language used? How did they film?

13. Watch Examples of Tutorials Blogs in Plain Englishhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI Russian Peasant Method of Multiplicationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrUCL7tGKaI Building History: The Muetter Museumhttp://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/The_Mtter_Museum_-A_Timeline-

14. Techniques for Tutorials- Student Summary colors clear voice watch the speed background colors review explain different ways give details good step by step explain at the beginning what tutorial will be about you can use a dry erase board- take one picture of every change film with little paper pieces and use fingers to move pieces in and out

15. Oral Directions

16. Groups of Two or Three Separate yourself with a barrier

17. Give instructions to your partner(s) by telling them what to do.

18. Student Observations Details about how to write the math problem on the paper. Be serious, don’t be goofy. Be specific where you draw lines Be exact Double check your problem Vertical or horizontal problem writing

19. What is Next?Step- by –Step Get into groups Group decides what type of tutorial they want to create What techniques to use Decide what equipment to use (Camera?Flip?Illustrations?SmartBoard?WhiteBoard?Laptop?) Create step-by-step script of directions Edit & revise script Create storyboard of movie Rehearse script Produce movie

20. Improve Tutorial with Feedback from Friends List the things in the tutorial that helped you understand better? What did the designer do well? Why was it good? What was hard to understand? Why wasn’t it helpful?

21. Storyboarding