I've said on an earlier thing that I'm probably more of a visual person so it's no surprise that I'm already a big Pinterest fan. I'm @ehcarlie if anyone fancies having a look. I tended to focus firstly on things to do with my toddler so it's arts, crafts and reading games for small children. It's a personal thing but I realised recently that lots of it is very relevant to my work in a public library so I also have a Work board which for some reason I decided to make private - I don't know why and I'm going to address that soon. We haven't gone down the Pinterest line at work as we haven't made the most of our other tools really but I have definite plans to use Pinterest in November for Book Week Scotland and we'll see how it goes from there.
I'd never heard of Flipboard and I think I might have found a new obsession - I love the idea of having a magazine I've made to read when I like just of articles I'm interested in! The bonus is I now have more space in my bookmarks on my iPad having removed the flow of saved articles I never get round to reading again.
I've seen Storify used to sum up conferences I've attended and think it's a good tool for that. I'd definitely have to explore it a bit further to see if there are any other uses I can find for myself - potentially events that we hold in libraries.
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We haven't made much use of video, mainly a few nursery rhymes from Bookbug sessions and a bit of film from local events. The most popular we've had is sharing a story we had readers tell during Book Week Scotland. We've done a few now and it's always good fun:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cM6h8rRhBGc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cugAXjcW9l8
I definitely need to brush up on my editing skills for this year so I was really interested in options to edit on YouTube (I've only ever posted to it, not edited using it). I'm also going to have a look at Screen-o-Matic as we've shared through the library account but mostly through my own and it would be more professional to have one platform.
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ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of Flipboard too. It doesn't really do anything that tools like Feedly don't already do, but it's the way it does it that is impressive. I really like the sense of flipping through a magazine that you get from Flipboard.
Just on editing with YouTube: obviously, to keep the Thing reasonable short and do-able, I had to focus on just one aspect of editing (the subtitles function), but there are SO many editing tricks you can do within YouTube now that up until a couple of years ago you'd have needed specialised software to do. Adding music, cross-fade effects and titles/end credits are a really simple way to make your video seem more professional.
Hopefully you found the Thing interesting as a starting point, and you'll have fun experimenting with the other editing tools.
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