CERN e-learning project

Tools' index

• Project description here. It contains Use Cases and Content owners.
• e-group here. Members can be viewed.
• vidyo portal here. It can be used for any meeting or rehearsal.
• Indico category dedicated to e-learning here.
• CDS category dedicated to e-learning here
• CERN e-learning logo in progress. Request sent by Maria Dimou to the CERN designer Fabienne Marcastel on 2016/01/20.

Points for speakers' preparation and recording set-up:

• Create an event in the e-learning indico category for every rehearsal to keep trace of the process and notes for future use.
• Write down every word you plan to say. Attach it to the relevant indico event.
• Arrange with the CERN studio manager Jacques Fichet to borrow a teleprompter device or, at least, have someone showing you the written text while you speak in front of the camera (like the TV news).
• Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. Use colleagues familiar with the domain as public to obtain feedback.
• Measure the time. Mini-tutorials should not exceed 5' to maintain audience attention. Dropping from 8' to 4' requires many rehearsals.
• Check what is already available on the web, as examples to learn from.
• Make sure everything you type in the video respects security rules. No personal emails, logins, passwords etc. The CERN IT recording team cannot edit video to blur text.
• Avoid typing commands 'live'. Rather make slides, screenshots or web page tabs with the commands on.
• Select the 16*9 landscape format for the slide dimension.
• Make sure the web pages of the application you present are clear for new-comers. Else, talk to their webmasters before recording the tutorial.
• Browser and terminal windows should be in one of the CERN official languages. Starting point should be a CERN web page.
• If you present a tool that works on multiple Operating systems, make a generic introduction and shorter episodes per Operating System.
• The camera should show the speaker first with a CERN picture in the background and then the slides, web pages and command lines of the tutorial.
• Display the tailor-made CERN e-learning logo before starting and at tutorial closing.

Use cases

More details on Use Cases and Content owners can be found in the project description document.

1. "User-friendly" video series for IT services:
   1. Installing an application using the Mac Self-Service
   2. Printing a document using Mail2Print
   3. Getting Microsoft Office for home (using the O365 subscription under the CERN Campus agreement with Microsoft)
   4. Agile Infrastructure (AI) tutorial.
   5. ...

1. e-learning for LHC experiment shifters on computing tools:
   1. Data transfer failures' investigation
   2. ...
2. Mini-tutorials for volunteer computing participants
   1. lhcathome. Pilot case. Material and rehearsals in indico.
   2. atlasathome
   3. ...
3. Mini-tutorials for physics masterclasses.
   1. ALICE strange particles
   2. ...

MariaDimou - 2016-01-26