ACRL is offering a 2-hour webcast on Thursday, April 26, 2:00 EDT: Getting Started with Screencasting. From the site:
Webcast Description:
This two hour session will explore screencasting—delivering screen captures via RSS—and its potential applications in the academic library. Participants will be provided with examples of screencasts, information on various software applications used to create screencasts, and tips for choosing content, preparing, recording and delivering a screencast.This Webcast will last approximately two hours.
Not quite sure what they mean about delivering screen captures via RSS – someone who attends let me know, ok?
Not free.
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I attended the web cast, and was lured in by that same phrase that caught your eye.
I thought, “Wow! That’s something I hadn’t heard of!”
It turned out to be a presentation on creating tutorials using Camtasia (mostly), with other attendees discussing Captivate and Wink, and a discussion of best practices.
The RSS part was one slide noting ways to publicize your tutorials/screencasts via libsyn, feedburner, and so on.
Not exactly what I was expecting based on that description.
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