INSTRUCTIONAL
DESIGNER
CURTIS WANG
Zaption Product Training
Zaption
A selection of product training tasks to support partners and clients using the Zaption platform,
including integration into learning management systems and modeling of educational video retrieval.
October 2013 - March 2014
EDUCATIONAL CONTENT PRODUCER
As a product trainer and supporting educator, I created sample Learning Tours: a packaged series of YouTube videos with embedded assessments and interactive components for other educators.
These embedded features shift video from a "lean back" experience to a necessarily engaging "lean forward" activity. This may be as simple as including a guiding question to prompt critical thinking or direct the learner's attention to otherwise subtle cues. A more layered learning tour, on the other hand, might present multiple videos in a specific order with punctuated opportunities for the user to submit text responses, engage in discussion, or even draw on the video.
PRODUCT TRAINER
As a product trainer, I offered support in two ways:
1) Modeled video retrieval for Mechanical Turk users.
I was initially tasked with curating a gallery of science videos that would address all curriculum expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards at the middle and high school level. During this curation process, I identified three categories of pedagogical approaches that my collected videos seemed to lend themselves most well to: video as providers of Key Content Information, video as providers of Accessory Content Information, and video as opportunity to Spark Debate or Critical Thinking. Other categories also emerged, such as video as opportunity for Case Study Examination, though less frequently. Ultimately, these categories served as guides for Mechanical Turk users to carry out a similar curation process with video in other subject areas.
2) Produced documentation for other educators looking to integrate the Zaption tool into their learning management system via LTI.
Zaption is a web-based platform with Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) capability, and thus can be integrated into an institution's learning management system such as Moodle or BlackBoard. As a product trainer, I created documentation for clients on installing Zaption via LTI in their LMS, typically in the form of sequential screenshots collectively exported into a PDF.
