Videos from the NCSU Library - animations & tutorials to help you and your students!

[Bethany Smith]

Your ever helpful librarians have been hard at work on several instructional animations and videos. We hope you find these resources helpful as you work with your students. We're new to the world of animation and have learned a lot in the process. Most of the graphics and animation were done by a graphic design intern from the College of Design.

Peer Review in 5 Minutes -- a short animation focused on the importance of peer review in research
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/pr/share/

Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface -- an animation that focuses on how information is created in Wikipedia -- 6 minutes
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/

Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students -- focuses on "what is a literature review?" "what does it mean to review the literature?" - 10 minutes http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/lit-review/

Article Databases in 5 Minutes -- focuses on "what is a database?" "what is an article database?" "what are the key features of article databases?"
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/article-databases/

Not an animation, but pretty cool nonetheless...
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article -- interactive web guide highlighting the key identifying features of scholarly articles
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/scholarly-articles/

All of these projects are listed on the library's tutorials page: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/

If you have ideas for other projects, please feel free to send me ideas.

- Kim

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Kim Duckett
Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning
NC State University Libraries
919-513-3653