The Monday Evening Post: Screencast Planning

Currently, I am in the process of using the ADDIE cycle (Assess, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) to plan the Screencast tutorial.  I am a newbie to this whole teaching business, especially when it is directed for more than one person. So, while I am feeling a bit of uncertainty, I am loving the ADDIE plan. I have found it to be super helpful for uncluttering my thoughts and ideas. With that said, I am starting to understand what Kristin meant by it is easy to try to teach too much! I am currently straddling that line of what is helpful and what is just way too much information at one time.

I would love for my tutorial to be as sleek as possible. I think currently I am too focused on all the cool things I think are cool and want to teach (Which feels like everything!). Instead of what my audience would want me to teach. This is certainly causing quite the conundrum in my house. I am also thinking about our discussions on using prior knowledge, and where people are coming from. I don't want to be showing obvious steps, that everyone and their mother knows. But at the same time, I don't want to be demonstrating something that a majority of people feel completely confused. How do you find that balance? And how do you know when something is too much or too little? Anyone else have more experience with this than I do?

So, needless to say, I am in a bit of a need for a soundboard. I hope you wonderfully intelligent fellow librarian enthusiasts won't mind me picking your brains!

My audience is intended to be for high school and/or middle school students on how they can create their own stop-motion picture film using PowerPoint (or Google Presentation on Google Drive). I am not sure if I want to walk through the whole creation process, or if I want to pick out certain little tricks and tips that you can use like "Grouping" characters, "Free Rotation",  Slide timing, Inserting music (etc.). And if I were to walk through the whole process, I would make it short and sweet - not necessarily me making 70+ slides while talking about something most likely unrelated.

I am also thinking about those ideas I could teach that would be able to transcend from just this demonstration but into others. I was thinking about keyboard shortcuts that makes somethings faster in PowerPoint but also in other applications.

So, what do you think? Too much? Too crazy? Too simple for high school? Too little? I would love feedback!

Until then - I'll keep sculpting this tutorial.

P.S. I have a feeling I won't be able to compete with the opening of Clint Cora's tutorial.