ANTS - Animated Tutorial Sharing Project

From Library Instruction Wiki

• Type of resource: Flash Tutorials incorporating Audio

• Method of delivery: Online

• Authors: Originally COPPUL Librarians, but as of September 2006 any librarian can contribute a tutorial to it.

• Project's Goal: To create a critical mass of point-of-need library tutorials by making inter-institutional creation and sharing of tutorials easy and efficient. In so doing ANTS strives to provide Librarians with a one-stop shopping site for open source tutorials - much like Flickr serves as a site used to locate pictures. Presently, tutorials identified for development are for specific e-resources, but other library tutorials are welcome.

• Accessiblity: ANTS tutorials are made available to anyone wishing to use them under a Creative Commons License assigned to each tutorial.

• Intended audience: Tutorials originally were designed for undergraduate students, but librarians in research and public libraries have also indicated that they would be useful for their clientele as well.

• Other Information: ANTS identified tutorials for development on a dynamic Wiki list that can be added to. Consequently, people can indicate that a tutorial should be created for an e-resource not on our list, for information literacy tutorials, literacy tutorials, or for tutorials on how to use software such as Google Earth, Wikis, Word, etc. In short, any type of tutorial that library users would find useful.

• Keywords: Flash, Library, Overview, Research

• URL: http://www.brandonu.ca/Library/COPPUL/

• Date added: December 22, 2006

• Technology/software used (if known and applicable): Flash, Camtasia Studio, Qarbon ViewletBuilder