rudai23 – The Hyperlinked Infoeduc8r

For this exercise, I decided to create an instructional video for faculty at my college on how to schedule a library orientation using our LibCal app. Getting the faculty to fill out a form instead of calling me directly has been like herding cats, but they are getting better 🙂 LibCal from Springshare helps keep track of the scheduling while I focus on the content that needs to be covered in the session.

After uploading to YouTube, I realized I needed to add a bit more text to the transitions and some pauses. Two more false starts later, and this is what I have. I wanted to keep it as short and sweet as possible yet not bore my viewers to death! It was fun and I can imagine getting a lot better at this with practice.

I would love any comments/feedback on this very quick instructional video:

PhotoFunia is an app that allows you to take your stored photos on your phone and create fun images and backgrounds with them. To test it, I found a photo one of my colleagues had sent to me of students using our new acoustic pod study rooms. I opened the photo in PhotoFunia and chose a billboard background. I was able to give it a caption, but it could only be about 24 characters. After testing a few captions, I finally came up with one that fit the space, but there’s a darn light pole smack in the middle of the photo giving it an air of authenticity (I guess) but totally blocking my content. Oh well, it still looks pretty good, I think:

photo of students working in a room placed on a city billboard. — My photo on a PhotoFunia billboard with light pole!

I then tried Quik, an app that allows you to make short videos out of the photos and videos stored on your phone. My first attempt was a complete disaster, IMHO. I used the highlight tool thinking it would give a slo mo effect over that section of the video, but instead it cut the video to focus on that specific segment. So, for my second try, I ignored the highlight tool all together, added some new text, and now have a lovely video of my Godchild:

screenshot of little girl swimming — video made with Quik

Lots of fun, and I can think of many ways to use these tools to spruce up some social media content at my library.

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