 Hello, welcome to this first in a series of videos introducing our workshop on creating instructional videos. These are the videos to watch before attending the workshop and to get some background that you need to actually get working so that we can spend the workshop on just practicing things for creating videos. So what you will learn in these videos and during the workshop is understanding and some background in instructional videos. What makes an effective video, what is some of the history, how that came about, what are some of the tools that are available. Then using that knowledge during the workshop we'll do some preparation of materials for a video and then you'll get a chance to record and that will hopefully will help you gain confidence in using different tools to record videos and in particular we'll be focusing on rapid MOOC and how to use that without assistance. So what you will do is during the workshop is make an outline for a short video that will be maybe 304, 305 slides, maybe write a short script as well and then record a very brief 30 to 60 second video using these materials. Now the workshop will has this sequence of there was pre-workshop videos which is you watching the first in a series here that will give you some more background and also some instructions on how to use rapid MOOC and then during the workshop that will give you a chance to mostly focus on actually preparing the materials and trying a recording and then actually getting some critique and some feedback from other participants in the workshop. So this is just the end of the introduction. In the next video we're going to have a look a bit more about what instruction videos are, how they came about and what are some of their properties.