With limited time in the classroom, academic librarians often have to find innovative ways to teach information literacy (IL) topics to students. One way to present and/or supplement instruction on IL concepts is through Instructional videos. Join us as we discuss what elements make an instructional video effective and share our experience in using the platform Powtoon to create engaging and accessible videos for our first-year seminar courses. Come learn about the benefits and drawbacks of video creation through Powtoon as we demonstrate some features of this platform, such as AI script writer, custom characters, templates, and collaborative creation. We will also show some of our instructional videos made via Powtoon.
