Tutorial Creation Fall 2008

Quia

Online tutorials give students an opportunity to practice knowledge and can be very engaging tools.

This workshop will primarily look at Quia as an online tutorial creator.

http://www.quia.com (Quia Web - Sign up for a FREE 30 day account to try it out and to decide if it is a tool you would like to utilize with your students!)

Quia FAQ:  http://www.quia.com/faq.html

The nice thing about Quia is that you can copy and edit other creator's tutorials and tailor them to the needs of your specific students and subject(s) you are practicing.  It is a shared content site; so, what you create can be utilized by other users too.

Hot Potatoes

Another FREE tutorial creator is Hot Potatoes (Free download here:  http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ and is installed on your teacher workstations).  Thsi tool requires loading created tutorials onto a server to be accessed by users (students).  The Web Publishing feature of First Class can be utilized as a server.

Hot Potatoes User Group:  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hotpotatoesusers/

Hot Potatoes FAQ:  http://hotpot.uvic.ca/v6_faq.htm