FOR, June 13: VOKI

This week's Featured Online Resource is voki.com, which one of our librarians, Dr. Sean Henry, discovered yesterday. Like xtranormal.com, it supplies animated characters for short videos (60 seconds max at voki) you can create and share. However, unlike xtranormal, you can use your own or any recorded voice if you so choose; you can also use text-voice mode. Characters run the expected gamut of alternakids, anime-type characters, animals, celebs. Videos are widely-embeddable and ready to share. I made one this morning in about five minutes. And here it is.

See You Soon: A Brief Introduction to Our Instruction Program

Critical thinking. Creativity. Individual Thought. Problem Solving. Our instruction program aims to partner with FSU faculty to instill these traits. Here it is on tape:

Video: Special Collections Vol. 1

Below is a video highlighting materials that Mary-Jo Price has in Special Collections pertaining to coal mining in Western Maryland and its role in the origin and early history of this university.