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MAKING CUSTOMIZABLE INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS WITH GOOGLE FORMS

Meredith Farkas

Portland Community College

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HI, MY NAME IS MEREDITH

AND I’M AN ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN GEEK

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Library SAC Goal

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Identify new ways IL instruction can reach courses other than direct instruction.

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INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Free or existing software
  • Can embed existing video content
  • Students get a copy of what they put into the form
  • Accessible
  • Can easily share with faculty & they can see student responses
  • Copyable and customizable by colleagues

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UPSIDES

OF OUR APPROACH

  • Easy for anyone to build
  • Instructors/librarians can easily modify existing tutorials
  • Dead simple for the end-user
  • Easy to copy content pieces from other forms

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DOWNSIDES OF OUR APPROACH

  • Very minimal formatting options
  • Can be hard to figure out how to make it totally accessible (though it’s possible!)
  • Faculty have to fill out something else in order to make their own copy
  • In order to let people copy it, you have to set it to “anyone in your org can edit.”

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IMPACT

  • How is it being used
    • to replace F2F instruction
    • in addition to synchronous instruction
    • in classes we’ve never worked with before
  • Librarians are copying and tailoring tutorials for their own classes
  • Very positive feedback from instructors

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IMPACT

(UPDATE!)

  • Anthropology assessment
    • Rubric assessment
    • Compared papers of students who had embedded librarian/tutorial vs. papers of students who didn’t
    • Mean score of students who had embedded librarian/tutorial: 43/50
    • Mean score of students who did not have either: 29/50

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I just wanted to follow up and say that the Library Assignment was a huge success! I've never had so many students actually complete this correctly with peer-reviewed sources in correct citation format. This is a great tool.

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-Anatomy and Physiology instructor

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QUESTIONS?

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Reach me at meredith.farkas@pcc.edu and @librarianmer

Access the slides at http://bit.ly/libtutorialsslides

See my blog post with a few tutorial examples you can copy at http://bit.ly/libtutorialexamples

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CREDITS

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:

  • Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
  • Photographs by Unsplash

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