Module 5: Using Personas and Maps to Craft Instructions
Videos for Module 5/Week 5 of Class
Video Entries on Creating Instructions
Video 1: Writing Instructions and Procedure (Run Time = 4 min, 38 sec)
This video overviews the process of researching the audience's (user's) background and expectations, developing initial materials to provide instruction to that audience/those users, and testing/assessing the effectiveness of draft materials with that audience/those users. As you review this video entry, consider how it reflects ideas examined in the readings for this module/week and connects to earlier concepts we examined in relation to user testing.
Video 2: Writing Instructions and Procedures (Run Time 7 min, 55 sec)
This video discusses how to apply an initial understanding of audience/users (i.e., information used to create personas and script-prototype maps) to develop instructional materials for that group. It also summarizes how to develop content (information) and organize ideas to meet audience/user expectations and how to assess the effectiveness/usability of such materials. In reviewing such topics, the video provides an example of how tools such as personas and script-prototype maps can be used to create products such as instructions.
Video 3: Instruction Documents: Writing Effective Steps (Run Time = 5 min, 29 sec)
This entry explains how to apply audience/user information to determine the content (information) needed and the best strategies for organizing that content in order to address audience/user expectations. The examination of these topics is done on a more focused level and reveals how meeting audience/user needs can involve different nuances depending on who that audience/user group is and what process individuals must perform. (Consider how personas and script-prototype maps can be important tools in understanding how to create instructional materials to address user needs and expectations at these more nuanced levels.)
Video 1: Writing Instructions and Procedure (Run Time = 4 min, 38 sec)
This video overviews the process of researching the audience's (user's) background and expectations, developing initial materials to provide instruction to that audience/those users, and testing/assessing the effectiveness of draft materials with that audience/those users. As you review this video entry, consider how it reflects ideas examined in the readings for this module/week and connects to earlier concepts we examined in relation to user testing.
Video 2: Writing Instructions and Procedures (Run Time 7 min, 55 sec)
This video discusses how to apply an initial understanding of audience/users (i.e., information used to create personas and script-prototype maps) to develop instructional materials for that group. It also summarizes how to develop content (information) and organize ideas to meet audience/user expectations and how to assess the effectiveness/usability of such materials. In reviewing such topics, the video provides an example of how tools such as personas and script-prototype maps can be used to create products such as instructions.
Video 3: Instruction Documents: Writing Effective Steps (Run Time = 5 min, 29 sec)
This entry explains how to apply audience/user information to determine the content (information) needed and the best strategies for organizing that content in order to address audience/user expectations. The examination of these topics is done on a more focused level and reveals how meeting audience/user needs can involve different nuances depending on who that audience/user group is and what process individuals must perform. (Consider how personas and script-prototype maps can be important tools in understanding how to create instructional materials to address user needs and expectations at these more nuanced levels.)
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