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Lesson Plan for Teachers

 Hobby course lesson 10 

The lesson aims to help students explore media design, styles, and choices of creating a tutorial video. 

Task 1: Gaining an overview of a tutorial video (Steps 1-3) 

Purpose: As a warm up activity, this task aims to encourage students to discuss the experience with tutorial videos. 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • Remind students that they will have to create a video of their hobby and post it on an online video sharing platform 

  • Ask whether students have watched tutorial videos of their hobby, with sharing (5-10 minutes as a warm-up activity) 

  • Explain that this lesson focuses on different styles and choices of creating a tutorial video, and that origami videos on Youtube will be used as examples 

  • In breakout rooms, students discuss (1) what is a tutorial video? (2) what makes a tutorial video effective? (3) what online video sharing platforms do you know and/or have used before? 

  • Ask students to share examples of media design, styles, and choices in a tutorial video they are familiar with 

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Task 2: Analysing tutorial videos, focusing on instructions in a tutorial video (Step 4)  

Purpose: This activity focuses on analysing how instructions on how to do a hobby can be provided in a tutorial video. 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

Handouts:  

Answers/models/note: Video 1 (No spoken or written language), video 2 (Instructions written onto video), video 3 (Written instructions available through cc subtitle function), and video 4 (Spoken instructions also available in written form through cc) 

Task 3: Analysing tutorial videos, focusing on organisations of a tutorial video (Step 5) 

Purpose: The aim of this activity is help students explore possible ways to organise their tutorial video. 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • From the video about a hobby they chose in the previous task, students try to analyse the organization of the video 

  • Ask for volunteers to share the results 

  • Explain that there are many ways to organise a tutorial video. These include, for example, showing finished product at start (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCgVnyFhqLs), showing how finished product works at the beginning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1pe6F0uMg), and showing finished product at the end (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1pe6F0uMg)  

  • Set up breakout rooms, and ask students to discuss how the differences in the organisations could be associated with focuses of a tutorial video  

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Task 4: Strategies to communicate in a tutorial video (Step 6) 

Purpose: This activity aims to help students explore techniques, aids (e.g. virtual aids), and strategies that can make their tutorial videos stand out 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • Ask students to watch the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sJVhKBoqFc), and let them discuss the advantages from the use of the schematics 

  • Ask students to search for 3 videos about their hobby, identify the camera angles, and share the results with the class 

  • In breakout rooms, students discuss the camera angles they would use in their tutorial video 

  • Give students an opportunity to ask questions 

Handouts:  

Answers/models/note: Some common camera angles (1) Fixed over the shoulder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sJVhKBoqFc) (2) Off-centre over the shoulder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWckwymLze0) (3) From the front (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZdt9ulQ0NM)  

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