Crickets....?

Hi-ho, A Delgado the Librarian here. I know, I know, it's been crickets from me for the past few weeks but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. I've gotten some super fun literary criticism paper questions. One memorable stumper was how to cite (MLA 7th edition) a google book written in Farsi but translated by the student who was writing the paper. I couldn't find an answer in my trusty blue book so we ended up hybridizing two citation examples. Sometimes a gal has to make an executive decision when citing stuff. The student never came back to fuss at me so I'm assuming that all went well with her paper. Hurrah!

My head librarian gave me a special project where I have to provide instruction on using Xtranormal and its possible uses in accessibility. Honestly, I'm kind of drawing a blank on how to string these two concepts together though. So far I've settled on: Xtranormal can help create on-the-fly instructional videos! And then.... nothing else. I really did think that Xtranormal could easily create captions, hence making it a really good teaching tool for Deaf or Hard of Hearing students. But no. I found their forum page that basically says that in order to caption a movie you've made on Xtranormal, you have to upload it to YouTube, then use the YouTube captioning feature which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work. Yay (that's sarcasm). So grrrr.... I'm back to thinking about how I can tie Xtranomal and accessibility together. Sigh.