Week 13 Blog Post

Training Video Review: AutomaticGeek's Smart Library - Training On Facebook



This training video I found is for how to control your friend settings and privacy settings on facebook. The information here is very well presented and informative, but the overall delivery of the content is quite boring and disjointed. The narrator's delivery is rather weak and stiff, making the video even more boring to see that one would think possible. Come on people, this IS a video on how to use facebook, afterall.

The material is presented clearly and effectively, and the screen cast based zooms used to better identify the options on facebook are very well done. What the video lacks in presentation, it makes up for in clarity and content.

Another major point to note in this is the fact that the narrator also makes it a point to remind the users to refrain from adding personal information that would be otherwise unsafe to add online; a good tip, and one you've probably heard from your parents and teachers for years by now, but still one that needs to be said. Glad it was included there.

My major point of contention regarding the video, aside from the utterly boring narrator is the completely non descript title and pointless description added below the screen. The title describes little if any of the content, and the description sounds more like a solicitation for an online pyramid scheme. This leads me to call the intentions behind this video into suspicion, but , athte very least, the video is good at what tries to do.

If this video could be remade, I would recommend that the video's audio be recorded by a narrator whose voice is not the sonic equivalent of NyQuil, for one. Having a more active and conversational tone will prove to make this video much more valuable and useful for a topic that is admittedly, underrepresented and very much needed.

You can take a look at the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3dRwNTgnyk