Author: Paul R. Pival
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Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content
EDUCAUSE Live is offering a free one-hour presentation titled Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content. Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Mark Marino and Susan Metros, and the topic will be “Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content.” Educators have been searching for ways…
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Extensive knowledge of the Star Wars film series is a major plus
A job ad for Image Database Administrator, Lucafilm , San Francisco, California was posted to LISJobs a month ago, but was recently forwarded to the Web4Lib list. That might be a cool job!
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DC Public Library launches iPhone app for their catalog
Aaron Schmidt blogs that the DC Public Library iPhone app is now available for download. So I downloaded it and gave it a quick run through. No bells and whistles, but it gets the job done. Seems to only allow keyword searching at the moment – can't search by author, etc. You can place holds…
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Copyright Balance and Fair Use in Networked Learning
Those of you in the US may be interested in this free EDUCAUSE Live session on January 13th: Copyright Balance and Fair Use in Networked Learning: Lessons from Creators’ Codes of Best Practices. Copyright balancing has become a critical issue in the academy as digital practices increasingly have challenged creaky policies and practices. Scholars, academic…
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Jing Pro and Jing Free
Techsmith has just announced a premium version of Jing – Jing Pro. Features include the ability to record using MPEG-4, which means much higher quality (here's a very pretty example – compare that to the last video you saw on YouTube!), smaller video files, the ability to upload directly to Youtube, and the ability to…
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I’m # 51,008 in the Kindle Store!
You may recall that last year I discussed some options I was considering for commercialization of this blog. I have gotten one $25 payment from Newstex in the last year, so my content's obviously trickling out there somehow. Just got a notice that I'm now available in the Amazon Kindle store, where you can now…
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Camtasia for the Mac Update…
Betsy and Troy from Techsmith post a couple of screenshots as proof that the OSX version of Camtasia Studio is still coming along. Betsy’s also hinting on her twitter stream that there’ll be some sort of announcement at Macworld on Tuesday the 6th. If not Camtasia, I wonder what it could be? Snagit for OSX?…
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Library Elf goes to subscription model
From the Library Elf website: For the past five years Library Elf has been helping library patrons keep tabs on their library material. It is an independent service and not related nor funded by libraries. Costs have gone up greatly (new server, higher bandwidth, etc.) and to help pay for the new costs, we are…