This document discusses creating interactive online tutorials using free tools. It begins by explaining that interactive tutorials are more motivating for learning than passive videos alone. It then outlines various elements of interactivity like navigational control, quizzing, responsive interfaces, and social learning. Several free online tools are featured that can be used to add interactivity to videos, like Zaption, Vialogues, and Guide-on-the-Side. The document encourages selecting a tool based on factors like the intended audience and content. It provides instructions for using Zaption to customize videos by adding quizzes, text/images, and publishing the interactive tutorial. In the end, it emphasizes that creating high-quality interactive tutorials requires time

1. NO SOFTWARE?
NO PROBLEM.
Creating Interactive Lessons Using Free Online Resources
Mandi Goodsett – PerformingArts & Humanities Librarian
Cleveland State University

2. Does your library have information
literacy tutorials?
If so, what tools do you use to create
your tutorials?

3. WHY INTERACTIVE?

4. Motivating Learning
• We cannot learn for our
students
• Learning requires paying
attention
• Motivation -> Persistence ->
Practice -> Learning
• Without motivation, the
quality of the content doesn’t
matterhttps://learningsnippets.wordpress.com/category/motivation/
Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning

5. Why make interactive tutorials?
What does interactive mean to you?

6. ELEMENTS OF
INTERACTIVITY

7. Navigational Control
•Pacing
•Video vs. click
through
•Side-menu
•Time for
reflection
University of Wisconsin-Madison

8. Quizzing/Assessment
•Quiz questions
throughout
•Short cumulative quiz
•Feedback

9. Responsive Interface
•Drag-and-drop
activities
•Drop-down menus
•Collapsible units
University ofTexas – San Antonio

10. Social Learning
•Discussion boards
•Commenting
•Tagging
•Games

11. Guided simulation
•Text input boxes
•Click boxes

12. Other Methods of Engaging Students
• Length
• Humor/relaxed tone
• Varying speed/format
• Visually appealing graphics
• Relatable, relevant
material
• Positive feedback

13. What does all this mean?
Free online tools …..
may not be able to achieve the
highest level of interactivity.

14. What does all this mean?
Free online tools …..
may not be able to achieve the
highest level of interactivity.
But they will be more interactive than a video!

15. FEATUREDTOOLS
Whirlwind tour!

16. Step 1) Find (or make!) the perfect video
Length
Humor/relaxed tone
Visually appealing graphics
Relatable, relevant material

17. Step 2) Consider Copyright & Accessibility

18. Activity Break
Pick your tutorial creation team. Choose some potential
topics—preferably one skill-based and one conceptual.Then,
Find some appropriate videos for your topics as a group.

19. Step 3) Choose your tool.
Keep in mind …
• Grade/difficulty-level
• Comfort with technology
• Class content
• Educational theory
Navigational control
Quizzing/self-assessment
Interactive design
Guided simulations
Positive feedback

20. HapYak

21. Vialogues

22. Guide-on-the-Side

23. Office Mix

24. Zaption

25. Activity Break
Choose a video and customize it in Zaption either on
your own or in your group.

26. Using Zaption
1) Open an account in Zaption.
2) Click on NewTour.
3) Enter the URL from the video you found earlier. Click
Add thisVideo toTour.
4) Experiment!Add some quiz questions or some
image/text slides.
5)When you’re ready, click Publish. From here you can
embed the video or link out to it.

27. Takeaway
Making tutorials takes a lot of time and effort.
Make sure yours are creating real learning moments.

28. QUESTIONS?
Mandi Goodsett
a.goodsett@csuohio.edu
216-802-3362