LOEX: Online Resources

Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning

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At this critical time when the value of the library is often questioned, libraries and librarians must learn to better promote ourselves to our potential users. Using online promotional video is one good way to achieve that goal. The idea of this Screenwriting for Librarians series of blog posts is to share some screenwriting and storytelling techniques that I think might help fellow librarians who are interested in utilizing this medium to attract more users.

"I recently learned about a great project called Universal Subtitles, an open-source tool that brings together volunteers who want to subtitle videos and videos that need subtitles."

"Now with nothing more than a reliable Internet connection you and your students can create all kinds of documentary, entertainment, and how-to videos. "

"Now it is even easier to create content for YouTube without even needing a video camera or webcam. YouTube has just launched ‘YouTube Create‘ a new portal pulling together three great animation tools: GoAnimate, Stupeflix, an Xtranormal, each of which lets you ‘build’ custom videos featuring virtual avatars, custom speech, and more. All three would be excellent resources to support digital storytelling."

Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

"Have you ever wanted to customize an online video by adding your own comments or subtitles in any language, or wanted to send a custom video postcard? All of this is possible with Overstream: using our online Overstream Editor, you can easily create and synchronize your subtitles to any online video, store them on the Overstream server, and send the link to the subtitled video overstream to your friends."