I’m begging everyone to not watch the full video. I thought I knew Excel, but this tutorial really humbled me LOL. My mom recently started a new job. She hasn’t really used Excel in… 15 years? Now she uses it everyday. She asked me for help, but I never have the time to help her. Then I realized AFTER making this video, she basically knows how to do this stuff (probably better than me because I acted like this was my first time using it, but it’s been a long day so just be a little nice). My original video was 17 minutes long, and I tried uploading it to YouTube but my computer… sounded like it was about to take off so I had to stop.

All I did was screen record for this tutorial and threw it into iMovie to trim it down a bit.

This assignment was 4 stars but it should’ve been 15 because my computer ~hated it~

https://youtu.be/CbzJ6a9f-gg

For my last assignment I chose “Make a Tutorial for you Mom” but with a twist. I decided to take something that my grandmother always asks me how to do. My grandmother is a lovely woman but she has no idea what to do when it comes to technology. One of the things she often forgets how to do is how to save a picture that someone has sent her to her camera roll. I created a video demonstrating what to do. Words can say a lot but actually modeling and showing the steps and process that you are doing can go a long way. Due to this, I decided instead of taking a video of myself explaining to her how to do it that I would record my screen so she could see the things that I was clicking on. I did this on my phone which already has a screen record option and then sent it to my laptop where I uploaded it to YouTube.

For my last assignment, I did Make a Tutorial for your Mom. In this assignment, I had to create a tutorial to teach my mom how to do something on technology. My mom is really bad with technology so I was really excited to be able to do this assignment.

I was thinking about different things that I could teach my mom when I finally figured it out. I decided I was going to teach her how to crop a photo and send it to be on email. My mom loves taking photos and send them to me, but she always has unnecessary things in her photos and has to call me every time to explain how to send a picture.

For this, I decided to just use the screen recording application on my iPhone since that is how my mom would be sending picture. It was really fun to be able to make this tutorial for my mom and I can not wait to send it to her next time she asks me how to send a picture using email!

The video below explains how to send money to another Bank of America account. My inspiration for this video is mainly because I am tired of waiting 2 days for my mom to transfer money from her account to my bank account, but she won’t take the time to learn how to send money based on someone’s cell phone number. So I created this tutorial for her to learn how to do this. I am finding making tutorials is a lot of fun. I enjoy helping others.

This assignment was worth 4 and a half stars.

Make a tutorial for your mom [4.5 stars] [13.5/12 total]
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-a-tutorial-for-you-mom/

This video is a tutorial for my mother, niece, and nephew since I am not always home when the kids want to play my game systems. One likes to play on my playstation3, while the other on the ps4. To do so, however, requires switching the HDMI cable from system to system in order to play. Countless times, when I’m not home, they are bugging me about switching the cord out, so this tutorial is for that purpose!

-Agent Smith