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Training

Training Tips: Quick and Easy Video Creation Tools for Making Tutorials

Prime Video

We like to watch videos – but they need to be GOOD videos to actually hold our attention.

Browse through the tips in this article from the Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, and get some ideas for your own video creation – as well as making videos with your students.

“Today, I don’t bother with a fancy studio to create and share videos. Here are some of the ways that I create and post videos. These are straightforward videos… nothing fancy, no animation. (If I want to be fancy, I use other tools for special occasions.) Most of the time, I keep it simple and limit the tools because I need to work fast.

Screencast-O-Matic: This website will allow you to document anything on your screen. I use Screencast-O-Matic when I need to illustrate steps. The free version provides 15 minutes of recording with a watermark.

  • Tip: If you are serious about making videos, you might consider paying for the premium version. It is inexpensive. The features are priceless. For example, the premium features will allow you to record just the computer audio with a PC. You can also edit videos and make longer recordings.

PowerPoint: When I want to make a quick video of my presentations, I use PowerPoint. I don’t use this option to show in-depth steps.

  • Tip: The video can be shared using Office 365. Any teacher or student can get Office 365 Education for free by signing up with their school email address.

YouTube Live Streaming: I like this option because, after set up, it is a matter of clicking on a button to record. You can capture yourself talking to other people and show your faces and screens. Use this Google support site to get started: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en.

  • Tip: Live-streaming video goes directly to the user’s YouTube channel and is public. Change the settings after uploading the video.

iMovie: This is for IOS operating systems. I like the way my videos look professional when I finish. The only problem is that I spend too much time playing around with it.

  • Tip: If you don’t have a MAC, iMovie is also available for the iPhone and iPad. Windows had a similar program called Windows Movie Maker. Shotcut (https://shotcut.org/) is an alternative to Windows Movie Maker. As always, use due diligence before downloading programs to your computer. Moreover, Microsoft has updated Microsoft Photo to create videos.”

Read the rest of this article here, for more ideas on hosting and other good ideas!

Communication

Day Seventy Seven of the CMLE Summer Fun Library Tour!

Socrates Louvre

I’m such a fan of fun new ways to learn things; and videos can be a great way of learning. Open Culture has a bunch of videos helping to introduce you, or your patrons, to twenty five different philosophers!

“Philosophy as an academic subject is regularly maligned in popular discourse. Philosophy majors get told that their studies are useless. Philosophy professors find their budgets cut, their courses scrutinized, and their character grossly impeached in propagandistic religious feature films. It’s enough to make one despair over the turgid air of anti-intellectualism that stifles conversation.

But before we start pining for bygone golden ages of rigorous critical thought, let us remember that philosophers have been a thorn in the side of the powerful since the inception of Western philosophy. After all, Socrates, the ancient Greek whose name we associate with philosophy’s most basic maxims and methods, was supposedly put to death for the crime of which today’s professorate so often stand accused: corrupting the youth….

There are 25 videos in total, which let you become acquainted with, and perhaps corrupted by, a range of thinkers who question orthodoxy and common sense, including Aristotle, Epicurus, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Baruch Spinoza.”

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Do you need some pep? Check out these library advocacy videos!

Videos can be a great way to demonstrate your services, and to advocate for your library!  Check out these library videos, to see what kinds of things other libraries are trying.

Does your library make videos? Would you like to?? At CMLE Headquarters, we want to encourage video creation and sharing, so tell us about your work!

2016 Livonia Public Library Summer Reading Program … Parkour!

“Do you need a book recommendation? Have you ever seen a librarian stunt double? Check out our 2016 Livonia Library Summer Reading video featuring Phoenix Freerunning Academy and our very limber librarians. Jump into action on June 4, 2016 by grabbing a reading log at any of the Livonia Public Libraries! Visit our website for more info: http://livoniapubliclibrary.org. And for the Children’s summer reading log, visit our Children’s Programs page: http://livoniapubliclibrary.org/kids/…. Library Parkour!”

Save the Troy Library “Adventures In Reverse Psychology”

“The city of Troy, Michigan was facing a budget shortfall, and was considering closing the Troy Public Library for lack of funds. Even though the necessary revenues could be raised through a miniscule tax increase, powerful anti-tax groups in the area were organized against it. A vote was scheduled amongst the city’s residents, to shut the library or accept the tax increase, and Leo Burnett Detroit decided to support the library by creating a reverse psychology campaign. Yard signs began appearing that read: “Vote to Close Troy Library on August 2nd – Book Burning Party on August 5th.” No one wants to be a part of a town that burns books, and the outraged citizens of Troy pushed back against the “idiotic book burners” and ultimately supported the tax increase, thus ensuring the library’s survival.”

 

 

A Vision Shared: School Board/District Planning for

School Library Advocacy

 

“This short film provides pointers for creating a school board/district wide vision statement for school libraries and emphasizes the importance of advocating for school libraries.”

Librarians Do Gaga

“Students and faculty from the University of Washington’s Information School get their groove on.”

 

Librarian Rhapsody- Shoalhaven Library Staff

This is the most unusual annual report from a library that I’ve ever seen – but combining telling their community about the things they have been doing over the past year with a strong message advocating for the library is a great touch! (Keep watching to the end for the final couple of sentences!)

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Tips and tricks for using video in the classroom

Uncertain CrossingFree Technology for Teachers recently published a great post that is sure to help any number of librarians rise to the “information guru” status they truly deserve. The article is geared toward using YouTube in the classroom, which more schools are now unblocking for teachers. Read the full post to get instructions and access to easy tools so you know how to:

  • Remove sidebar distractions,
  • Show just a portion of a video,
  • Create a playlist of videos to use at a moment’s notice!

Tip: If you have access to YouTube in your school, consider using tools like ViewPure and Watchkin to display videos without showing the “related” videos comments from YouTube.

Can’t use YouTube? No problem, check out this post with 40 alternatives to YouTube… Remember, where there is a will, there is a way!

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