Category: Electronic Reference
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Lifehacker’s Five Best Screencasting or Screen Recording Tools
No surprises in here really, as Lifehacker rounds up the five best screencasting tools as submitted by its readers. My fav, Camtasia Studio, comes out on top all around, offering both a Windows and Mac version. There seem to be a lot of folks who like the free CamStudio though, if the after-poll is to…
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Recording a screencast of your iPad2 or other tablet device
Kelly Rush of Techsmith has just posted a video showing how you can record a screencast of your iPad2 or other tablet device. To do it you have to capture the video out from the tablet; you can't do the recording on the tablet, which would be ideal, IMHO. Kelly's solution consists of the following…
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Screencasting on the iPad (almost)
Just ran across a link to an in-development iPad app called ShowMe, which acts as a whiteboard, recording whatever happens within the app, including audio, and then exports that to a website. I would SO love to have an app like this that can record whatever is happening on the iPad rather than just itself,…
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EBSCOHost releases an iPhone app
I haven't seen a press release or anything, but someone mentioned it on Twitter last night, so I went looking and found that EBSCO has just released an iPhone app. It'll also work on an iPad, but not at full screen. So how does it work? Log in to one of your EBSCO databasese and…
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7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons
This month Educause looks at 7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons. The learning commons, sometimes called an “information commons,” has evolved from a combination library and computer lab into a full-service learning, research, and project space. As a place where students can meet, talk, study, and use “borrowed” equipment, the learning…
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Join.me desktop screen sharing app now available for iOS
Aw man, I *so* wanted this to be a way to view a live iPhone, iPod or iPad screen remotely, but alas, it's the other way around. Install this free app and you can watch a computer screen shared with you by another user. Very cool, and works very well in my limited testing –…
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Some great screencasting thoughts and examples
I've had a few posts floating around waiting for me to blog about them. Embedding tutorials into physical objects – Jason Fleming talks about an incident with a photocopier that prompted him to create tutorials for print, and use a QR code to guide end users of physical objects to relevant online tutorials on how…
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Livening virtual reference with screencasting and screen sharing
Just finished reading this article: Heidi M. Steiner, (2010) "Livening virtual reference with screencasting and screen sharing", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 27 Iss: 4/5, pp. 9-11. DOI 10.1108/07419051011083172 Heidi takes a look at Jing, Screencast-o-matic, Screencastle, and Screenjelly for screencasting, and Dimdim, Yuuguu and ShowMyPC as screen sharing tools. Missing from her list is a…
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Yuuguu: A Desktop Sharing App
At his Digital Reference blog, Stephen Francoeur has a comprehensive post and screencast taking a look at Yuuguu , a cross-platform desktop sharing application that may prove to be a nice tool to have in your toolkit. Looks pretty slick!
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Embedding chat widgets within EBSCO databases
A couple of years ago the U of Calgary was among the first to embed an IM chat widget within its OPAC. What I've really wanted to do since then was also embed it within the bibliographic databases, where students spend even more time. I tried a couple of times with ezproxy's search and replace…