Reivew of Pinterest Tutorial - Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

 

I was rather surprised on the low amount of videos in Youtube.com done by libraries about social  media. There is a niche for tutorials within the library community.

The tutorial focused on understanding the basic use of Pinterest. This video is most likely oriented for individuals who are not involved with social media. For more technical and social media user this video will not contribute much to their knowledge. The video tutorial will lead the user from registering and basic usage.

There are areas that can improve how the tutorial is being presented. Narrator should practice reading out loud the script as it did sounded monotone and awkward pauses. While looking at the areas in Pinterest the tutorial was talking about it would make it easier to zoom in to those parts since its unnecessary to see the browser as it just taking up video space. Enlarging key elements for those learning Pinterest would make it easy to register what each element will do. Final feedback is the video discussed a lot of important feature a newcomer will need to know so to make it easy for them, break the video in chapters or divide the content into smaller digestible pieces.