Presentation on Xtranormal for the 2011 ACRL Spring Virtual Institute.

1. Make Your
Library Services
Xtranormal

2. Introductions
Breanne Geery- Evening Jonathan Kirsch-
Public Services Librarian, Foundation for
University of South Library Excellence
Carolina Upstate

3. What is Xtranormal?
• A free, online tool used to make movies.
• Uses animation and your typed words to create a
movie.

4. Poll 1
• How many people heard of Xtranormal before
coming to this webcast?
– Choose A if you hadn’t heard of Xtranormal before
coming to this webcast.
– Choose B if you have previously heard about
Xtranormal.

5. Example Videos
http://www.uscupstate.libguides.com/xtranormal

6. Uses?
• Does • How can
anyone it be
have any used in
ideas? libraries?

7. Marketing
• Xtranormal videos can be used to market
library services.
• They can also market new databases or
resources.

8. Tutorials
• Short instruction
tutorials can be
created using
Xtranormal.

9. FAQs
• Can anyone think of a more fun way to answer
frequently asked questions than to refer
people to a short video?
• Where is the bathroom?
• How late is the library open?
• What is the difference between the reference
and circulating collections?

10. Something Else?
• How else could librarians use Xtranormal
videos to improve library services?
• Some librarians are transferring their
Xtranormal videos to YouTube and then
embedding them into LibGuides.

11. Example Videos
http://www.uscupstate.libguides.com/xtranormal

12. Poll 2
• In what ways would your library most likely
use Xtranormal?
• A) Marketing
• B) Tutorials
• C) FAQs
• D) Something else

13. Questions
Breanne Geery- bgeery@uscupstate.edu
Jonathan Kirsch-
flexlibrarian@yahoo.com

14. Creating an Xtranormal Account
• Create an Xtranormal account by going to the
following link:
• http://www.xtranormal.com/account/register/