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TIMING IS EVERYTHING TUTORIAL PACING Viqui Dill, Technical Communications Leader, American Woodmark Corporation Tutorials need to be paced carefully. Too fast and folks don't learn. Too slow and they lose interest. This presentation discusses how to find a balance so that your tutorials are both engaging and effective, so that the pace is just right. Highlights include designing for the audience: creating engaged students by giving them what they need—to See/hear/touch, time to reflect, and to know what’s next; creating well-paced material that is “sticky”. Audio elements as objects Silence separates phrases, sentences, ideas Audio example

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TIMING IS EVERYTHINGTUTORIAL PACING

Viqui Dill, Technical Communications Leader, American Woodmark Corporation

Tutorials need to be paced carefully. Too fast and folks don't learn. Too slow and they lose interest. This presentation discusses how to find a balance so that your tutorials are both engaging and effective, so that the pace is just right. Highlights include designing for the audience: creating engaged students by giving them what they need—to See/hear/touch, time to reflect, and to know what’s next; creating well-paced material that is “sticky”.

Audio elements as objects

Silence separates phrases, sentences, ideas

Audio example

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

Example: Combined pacing of audio and video

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Example: Combined pacing of audio and video

SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS:

Design for audience

Engaged students need

o See/hear/touch

o Time to reflect

o To know what’s next

Well-paced material is “sticky”

AUTHOR CONTACT INFORMATION

Viqui Dill

Technical Communications Leader, American Woodmark Corporation

131 Dawson Drive, Winchester, VA 22602

540.303.0323 [email protected] twitter @viqui_dill.