I have made two Interactive Video Guides so far as a pilot before proceeding with the project. One guide is for using the Heliodon in the Architectural Lighting Lab and one for using the Shear Box in the Earth Sciences Laboratory. Development of the guides is still in progress as I determine the most usable and accessible format to use regarding hosting, transcripts and quizzes. My aim is to make these guides as accessible and usable as possible.

I worked with the film maker in the LIU, Steve Brown, and two lab technicians, Danny Elvidge and Emma Brown, to do the filming. I had some input into the scripting and filming but my main role, apart from having the initial idea and managing the project, was creating the guides in Xerte and making them available on tablet computers in the labs and via Blackboard. I want them to be available in the labs themselves for ‘just in time’ learning and additionally to be delivered on Blackboard so that the quiz scores can be reported using SCORM (in order to track, for health and safety purposes, which students have interacted with them).

When used in the labs on tablet computers it is important that students can only use the tablet computer to interact with the guides, i.e. they cannot browse the web to visit other websites. To restrict students to the using guides only I have installed a free app called ‘kiosk browser’ on the iPad (to restrict which URLs can be visited) and set the iPad to guided access/kiosk mode to disable the hardware buttons and restrict usage to the kiosk browser app only.

The first item embedded below is a Learning Object which acts as the index to the guides – it links them all together and provides the way in to the guides themselves. I made this as a separate LO so that it can be edited (e.g. more links to guides added over time) without affecting the actual guides.

 
The item below is one of the interactive guides. It includes an image with hotspot image links that lead to pages containing videos, transcripts and notes about the piece of equipment selected. It also includes a quiz at the end to check undersatnding.

 
Below is the second of the guides. It follows the same format as the one above.