Three developments from the Instructional Design Intern

We have had three major developments since I last posted (sorry for not updating everyone last Thursday!). First, the tutorial on developing a research question has officially been posted to the City Tech Library’s website! Check it out here: https://library.citytech.cuny.edu/tutorials/developing-research-question.
Next up, we’re officially switching to Twine! We really like Twine for its ability to be embedded as well as its flexibility for ADA compliance. We can also insert images, which was something I was worried about not being able to do before, and can easily insert links. Perhaps best of all, the code for the tutorial would not need to be hosted by a company. Twine’s deliverable is an HTML file, meaning that we can take the file and put it anywhere online without having to worry about Twine having technical issues or no longer being a company.
Freed Citation Holy Grail
I’ve spent most of my time since the workshop creating a Twine tutorial on citation reading. It has two major parts. The first is a quest to find the Citation Holy Grail, which is held up by four chains. Users must answer four questions about citations correctly to unlock the grail. The second is a separate path that allows users to learn about citations by going through each part and explaining what it looks like and ways to distinguish it from other sections of a citation. For instance, this tutorial points out that journal article titles cited in MLA are in quotations marks while the journal titles are italicized. This part of the tutorial is still in progress, but hopefully it will all be published soon.
The final development is that I have decided to stay at the City Tech Library as the Instructional Design Intern next semester! I plan to get IRB certified so that we can perform user experience tests on our new tutorials and possibly present our findings at a conference or in an article. I’m excited to keep going forward with my work here!
Have a great week!