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Trained by Animation: How We’re Re-imagining Our Help Desk Training with Cartoons Emily Patterson, Library Public Services Specialist Derek Malone, Assistant Professor, Instructional Services Librarian University of North Alabama - tinyurl.com/comotoon
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Trained by Animation: How We’re Re-imagining Our Help Desk Training with CartoonsEmily Patterson, Library Public Services Specialist
Derek Malone, Assistant Professor, Instructional Services Librarian
University of North Alabama - tinyurl.com/comotoon
What we’re doing
What we’re doing
What we’re doing
Powtoon
Founded in 2012
Multiple account options
We have an educational account license
What we’re doing
Powtoon
Educational license could be purchased for a classroom
Effectively, a student could purchase his/her own license and create for a class
project
Also, it’s an interactive presentation experience for the student employee that he/she
can carry to the classroom and workforce
Why are we doing this
Why we’re doing this
Why we’re doing this
Not necessarily a replacement, but an addition to
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Consistency & Accuracy
Why we’re doing this
Video availability at all times (Emily is here 7:30-4 M-F, while students work all hours
and weekends)
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
We use Camtasia Studio for “mash-ups”
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it
How we’re doing it (Symbaloo w/ subsections)
How we’re doing it
Similar initiatives
“Mission Impossible” like training for management class
Issues Encountered
Powtoon takes some time and practice to learn
Video becomes “permanent” wherever located
Thus, editing is a multi-step process
Additionally, links and videos might take multiple replacement/fixing
Student Feedback (Quotes)
“I think the video training is a much more efficient system
and fills in the gaps and moments of confusion when a
supervisor is too busy to facilitate hands-on training”
-Student AW
Student Feedback (Quotes)
“The pictures and music add entertainment to some of the
dull topics”
Student RG
Student Feedback (Quotes)
“The video was cool because I had never been in the library
before, so the virtual tour of the building helped me get a
picture before I had to go to all of the floors.”
-Student BB
Student Feedback (Quotes)
“After I went back and watched them, I understood better.”
Student KB
Student Feedback (Quotes)
“I think that they training videos are very helpful. It’s a
better introduction to the work done in the library than just
being thrown into it.”
-Student BB
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