Category: Tutorials
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Screencasting: seeking panelists for MARS Hot Topics DG
Looking for an opportunity to present at ALA? The RUSA MARS Hot Topics in Electronic Reference Discussion Group seeks panelists for its upcoming program at ALA Annual 2009: “Casting a Wide Net: Using Screencasts to Reach and Teach Library Users” Is your library using screencasts or video tutorials for user instruction? Maybe you use Jing…
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Free and good: Screencastle and Greenshot (and Jing too)
I recently came across two solid free screencast and screencapture resources and finally got a chance to run them through a quick demo. Thought I’d go all recursive and do a screencast of a screencast of the screenshot tool 🙂 The tools involved: Screencastle – web-based screencast tool. Doesn’t get much much simpler – there’s…
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Analysis of web-based tutorials created by academic libraries
Have only skimmed it myself, but you might be interested in Analysis of web-based tutorials created by academic libraries, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 35, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 126-131 (doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2009.01.010). Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the characteristics of tutorials created by academic libraries. It evaluates a sample of 180 tutorials by…
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Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface (in under 6 minutes)
Librarians at North Carolina State University have just published a nice flash tutorial called Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface. "What is a wiki? How does information get into Wikipedia in the first place? Who creates it? This short animation introduces viewers to what goes on behind-the-scenes so they can make the best use of what's on…
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ScreenFlow 1.5 released
I'm still holding out for the Techsmith Camtasia offering for OSX, but it's getting harder and harder to resist purchasing ScreenFlow, by almost all accounts the best screencasting software for the Mac. They've just released version 1.5, and The Unofficial Apple Weblog has an overview.
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Dalhousie LibCasts – what you want to learn, when and where you want it
Wow, check out the Dalhouse University LibCasts page! Too many to count, most available in multiple formats, with an RSS feed and a dedicated search engine. Very nicely done! Camtasia Studio seems to be the screencasting tool of choice.
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That’s Infotainment! – Great screencasting article
Ellyssa Kroski has an article that 's just been published in School Library Journal titled That's Infotainment, and it provides a really good overview of the current state of screencasting, with the following topics covered: What is screencasting?, Web site tours, Library functions, Software and database training, Slideshow screencasts (slidecasts), Staff training, Student assignments, Hardware,…
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FLV Coming Back to Camtasia Studio
One of the few complaints about the most recent version (6) of Camtasia Studio was the removal of the ability to output content as FLV files. Well, Techsmith appears to have heard the cry, and will be putting that export feature back in with their next update, due in March. Nice to have a company…
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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…