Author: Paul R. Pival
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vSkype.com
Haven’t had a chance to play with this, nor would it likely matter as I don’t have a webcam, but there’s a beta release of something called vSkype out that allows one to conference "up to 200" people in a conference call (with or w/o video). There’s a screenshot of it in action here.
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Screencasting Strategies
Jon Udell outlines his steps for creating a typical screencast in Screencasting Strategies. Personally I still think he’s working too hard at it. I learned to screencast with Qarbon ViewletBuilder (also available for the Mac, though they still seem to have that sound problem), which only allows the user to take a series of sceenshots…
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Frustration of a distant learner
Grrrr. I’m trying to participate in the EDUCAUSE Live event about Google’s Library Digitization Project but am unable to do so. 🙁 Login was fine, but after about 5 minutes Firefox crashed. Restarted and it happened again. Tried IE. Finally logged in after about 7 minutes of just sitting there. Got audio but no video…
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Innovate – Using Screen Recording and Compression Software to Support Online Learning
Haven’t actually read the article yet, but this abstract suggests there might be something pedagogical to this whole screencasting idea, if used correctly. There’s an upcoming webcast conference call with the authors on June 17th 7:00PM EDT (what a cruddy time slot!) – you can register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ Innovate – Using Screen Recording and Compression…
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NetLibrary/Recorded Books Online Interview
I missed this yesterday, so contacted Tom to see if there’s an arvhive of the interview, and there is, at http://www.opal-online.org/archiveinterviews.htm. NetLibrary/Recorded Books Online Interview Interested in digital audiobooks? Join Tom Peters for an online interview with Paul Cappuzzello and Gillian Harrison on NetLibrary/Recorded Books. The interview is scheduled for Monday, June 13, 2005 beginning…
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Do you have international students?
Hmmm, a little serendipity for me this afternoon. I happened across a blog that included a translation service along the side. I could click a flag and the page would be shown in that language. I couldn’t get that particular one to work on my site (I think it was a purchased service) but I…
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Ingenta Introduces New Service for Libraries
This is a nice enhancement – "Ingenta library customers can now upgrade their new issue and search alerts to include OpenURL links back to their own holdings, enabling users to link directly from an alert to the "appropriate copy" of the article’s full text wherever it may reside." Too few databases allow for some way…
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Scholar on the Home Page
TJ notes that Google Scholar is now appearing as a link on the Google homepage, but possibly only if one is at a .edu domain. I see it here in Calgary with my .ca domain as well, but again I’m sitting on a campus (just not with a .edu domain). Regardless of where (when) the…
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Quick Searchguide at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Eva at the library at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden sent me a link to their Quick Searchguide, which is a Flash-based menu system to direct students to research resources at their library. Nice marketing PDF shows the important student thumbs-up, and notes that libraries can buy the sourcecode to customize the resource…
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Myscreencast.com – Find and share screencasts
Jon Udell posts about a new forum that we DE librarians may find useful. I’ll certainly be watching this site, and may even contribute if I get some free time…Link: Myscreencast.com – Find and share screencasts