Today was focused especially on the database tutorial. Like I mentioned last week, we’ve been focusing on a swiping game for students to use for finding the right database. I created a mock up of the game last week, and today I received feedback about the mock up. The biggest result was that we decided to go a little less text-heavy. This approach is not as informative, but will likely keep students’ interest longer and will hopefully grab their attention quickly. I used Glyphicons from Bootstrap as logos for different aspects of the databases, which should serve as visual clues for the students. I’ve also kept some text to very briefly explain each icon, but overall the design is very visual.
We are also thinking about next semester’s user test. Nora and I had a meeting with Junior Tidal about the possibilities for our method. Although we have not nailed down our exact methodology quite yet, we are thinking of having users complete the tutorial then try to act on the knowledge from the tutorial. For instance, we will have a user take the Citation Grail Quest, then identify parts of a more complicated citation. Another user would look at the LibGuide and try to identify parts of the same complicated citation. We hope to see which was more effective for teaching what we wanted to get across. We’ve set up a basic timeline for the coming user test, which will be carried out over the next few months. Hopefully by the end of this semester we’ll have a better sense of how we will approach our test.
Have a great evening!