Why Write Your Tutorial? Compelling Reasons
Posted on February 10, 2008 - Filed Under Writing and Speaking
When I was much younger and having one of those father and son talks, dad paused and said reflectively, “son take the time to sit at the feet of some one older than yourself and learn. For one day if you do not, then their knowledge may be lost forever.”
After my fathers death our family began an Odyssey of care giving for five relatives who suffered from dementia, at death and autopsy, was determined to be Alzheimer disease. Wishing to have our family experiences understood by our children, if their parents ultimately became victims of AD, we wrote a journal about our experiences. Those experiences were published on a main frame in 1986 and served as an admonition of my father and we established our Talking Hands Award. Which was to honor the knowledge others shared and was not lost in time and space. Or gone forever!
I have never met a man, woman or child from whom I have not learned something new and applicable to my own life. So if I have not met you, know that you too have something of value to share with all of us. So write a tutorial. Publish that tutorial.
What is a Tutorial?
Most people think of something like how to make a PSP-10 bouncy, building an entertainment center or repairing the refrigerator as a tutorial. Yes, those are tutorials, but tutorials also include how a person coped with stress, a particular problem with HTML mime type and how the problem was solved or alternatives, to name but a few.
In short then a tutorial is how an individual solved a problem. So have you solved a problem today or yesterday ? Then write your tutorial. Share your knowledge or it may be lost forever.
Can Anyone Write a Tutorial?
If you have solved a problem, then you can or should write a tutorial. Why? Consider that some one in our middle earth has confronted a problem that you have solved. Without your knowledge made available to them in the form of a tutorial, then they too spend countless hours, or reinvent the wheel. That leaves someone spending hours unnecessarily, which could and would be spent either solving other problems, sharing their knowledge or helping others like feeding our poor and downtrodden. This cycle is never ending. So help yourself by helping someone today, not tomorrow. Time is fleeting!
How to Write a Tutorial
First let us Moodle our tutorial. The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It’s also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.
Are you a teacher? Yes, now share your knowledge.
Become a Moodler and use http://exelearning.org/eXe
The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. eXe can export content as self-contained web pages or as SCORM 1.2 or IMS Content Packages.
Tags: avoidance, eXe, lessons, moogle, moogler, repetition, teach, value
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