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Combining Tailored Information Literacy Videos to Target Every Subject

Why did we build it?

In September 2014, Lauren Fralinger, Education Librarian, was approached by Dr. Mary Avalos, School of Education Professor, requesting video tutorials for her graduate students. Graduate students in this class have schedules that make it difficult for them to be on campus for a daytime class. Coincidentally, there was already a team producing library tutorials.

Together we developed a new delivery method to consolidate the video tutorials for the Education course into a simple playlist. This allows the graduate students to watch these video tutorials at their own leisure and Lauren to focus her time on other projects.
 

How Did We Build It?

  • Determine the topics to be covered
  • Write/edit scripts for those video tutorials
  • Create video tutorials
    • a. Record introductory video of librarian       (optional)
    • b. Record the lecture (screen recording, audio)
  • Edit video tutorials
  • Create subtitles from script
  • Publish to the web

Video Playlist for Education Graduate Students

 

Playlist Topics for Education Video Series:

  • Introduction
  • Library Main Page & LibGuides
  • Library Catalog
  • Citation Linker
  • ERIC
  • PsychINFO
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • ProQuest Research Library

Poster Presentation

Build Your Own Playlist

Building Blocks : Recommended Tools

Video
  • One Button Studio – a fully set-up recording studio with green screen background, lights, camera, and audio ready and configured to record mp4 files at 1028x768  at the touch of a button.  
    • Difficulty Level : Intense          
    • Expensive
    • Alternate: webcam
  • Adobe Captivate – Highly versatile screen recording and editing software
    • Difficulty Level : Hard      
    • Can get expensive without educational discount
    • Alternate: Camtasia
  • Keynote – Mac slide presentation software
    • Difficulty Level : Easy 
    • Inexpensive. Sometimes included in Mac purchase
    • Alternate: Microsoft PowerPoint

Audio and Video Editing
  • Audacity – Free, open source audio recording and editing software
    • Difficulty Level : Moderate
  • Adobe Audition – audio editing software
    • Difficulty Level : Moderate      
    • Can get expensive without educational discount
  • Adobe Premiere – video editing software
    • Difficulty Level : Hard      
    • Can get expensive without educational discount  
    • Alternate: iMovie

Subtitles
  • Aegisub – Free, open source, for creating subtitles
    • Difficulty Level : Moderate

Web Hosting
  •  Kaltura Open Source Video Solution with hosting options
    • Difficulty Level: Moderate to Intense     
    • Free if you host on your own system, otherwise expensive if you have them host
    • Alternate: YouTube, Vimeo

Assessment
  •  Google Forms - Create free online forms and track results in a spreadsheet
    • Difficulty Level: Easy       

Where to Watch

  • LibGuides - The primary location for students to videw the education playlist is in the Education LibGuide
  • Blackboard - videos will be placed in the faculty repository in Blackboard so all faculty can link to each video they need
  • Embedded Codes - The playlist sits in LibGuides using the Embed code provided by Kaltura
  • MediaSpace - the videos are also available in MediaSpace primarily as a location where the video tutorial team and the education faculty could view for feedback purposes
  • Links - Using direct links to videos is also possible through Kaltura.

Stats and Feedback

Of the X amount of graduate students required to watch the videos, nine completed the online survey. All responded positively to the question: After watching the Education Video Series, do you feel better prepared to perform research at the University of Miami Libraries?

Students reported feeling “much better prepared” to research online, that the videos were “easy to follow along”, and did not experiene any technical difficulties. Some students were aware of the various library research tools but appreciated the “refresher” course.

Additional feedback:

“they did a good job making me feel comfortable enough to talk to a librarian for help.”

“I thought the videos did well for introductory videos on how to use the online libraries.”

Future Plans

Education graduate students completed the tutorials as of July 15, 2015.
Dr. Avalos required students to provide feedback for assessment purposes which we will apply to future video tutorials.

Video tutorials for the School of Nursing are completed and students will start watching in August 2015 as they arrive.  

We have additional video tutorials on general library topics that will be released for faculty to use in the upcoming semester. These video tutorials are voiced by additional Learning and Research Services librarians.
 

Who We Are

Lauren Fralinger - Education Subject Librarian, scriptwriter, lecture capture

Bryanna Herzog - Education Technology Specialist, technology advisor

Nat Phensiriphand - Information Specialist, content creator, video/audio editing, subtitles

Vanessa Rodriguez - Emerging Technologies Librarian, project manager, scriptwriter/editor

James Wargacki - Information Specialist, audio editing - no longer at UM