Category: LibGuides

Accessibility, Information literacy, instructional tools, LibGuides, Research Guides and Accessibility, STEM and Accessibility

Chapter 10: Happy Blog-iversary

Jill Lagerstrom

Gentle reader, we’re already at our tenth blog post!

Image of the Number 10
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LibGuides for All

Help me celebrate by checking out a resource I created on a theme that’s been running throughout my blogging careeer: Accessibility.

Take a look at “LibGuides for All” — it’s a site I created to help folks get started in creating accessible LibGuides.

I think that switching how you do stuff at work in your professional practice, as an individual but especially as a group, can be a little overwhelming and stressful. So, I collected some introductory material on digital accessibility, especially as it pertains to larger social questions in academia and STEM and college, and also created some how-to videos. I’m hoping this website can be used in conjunction with an in-house workshop on creating accessible LibGuides.

I asked for some feedback from colleagues and they were all for changing our practice to include digital accessibility. However, there was some reluctance in spending time on it without a directive from on high. I think I need to emphasize the fact that these are habits not big huge new ways of mind-altering change.

Big Questions

What has your experience been with professionals and whether they are willingness to incorporate small changes such as those found in LibGuides for All?

Please let me know what you think of LibGuides for All. You know me by now — I love your feedback.

 

Accessibility, instructional tools, LibGuides, screencasting

Chapter Four: Animoto — yes or no?

Jill Lagerstrom

Animoto vs. Loom

I created a video — LibGuides for All.

Tell me what you think of it! It is meant to be a little feel-good introductory video to a website I’m designing for my colleagues to launch a project to make our LibGuides more accessible.

I used Animoto. I’m not sure what I think of Animoto. I have been using Loom a lot for screencasting when creating instructional materials. So, I thought I had better try out a new tool. I am trying to think of why I’d want to use Animoto over Loom. Animoto seems good for stuff you want to try to market. Or perhaps it would be a good way to get someone’s attention at the beginning of  a class. Perhaps it would be best for introducing an idea. I just can’t seem to wrap my head around using it for anything in-depth. Loom seems a bit more personal and I have more control over the pacing and the layout of the slides I’m voicing over. I may just need to play with it a little more…

I think for the website I’ll end up using Loom after all.

Questions for y’all

Gentle reader, which do you like better — Loom or Animoto?

Have you used Animoto for anything more than an introductory material?

P.S. Also, I inserted the “add source” text box for the images I grabbed from unsplash. However, I don’t really see them. Do you? What’s up with that?

Here are the sources for the images — just so they’re acknowledged somewhere!

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