Category: Tutorials
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What’s actually missing from the Mac Screencasting options
…is the ability to edit the recording. Specifically adding callouts; arrows, highlights, text overlay… that sort of stuff. I now have copies of both iShowU and SnapzProX, and they both do a really nice job of recording the screen. Lots of variables like size of capture, frame rate, sound or not, but neither offers the…
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An update on the ANTS project
Hey, remember the ANTS screencast-sharing project? I’ve stepped way back from it since assuming my new duties here at the U of C, but it’s still going strong, and has undergone some major changes / improvements. Here’s an update that was sent to the COPPUL Distance Education group: As many of you are…
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Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching
From The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 8, No 3 (2007), ISSN: 1492-3831 – Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching by Elaine Peterson. I’m linking to the abstract page instead of the full text because from there you can choose HTML, PDF, or to listen to the article as an mp3,…
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Running Meebo as an application (no web browser needed!)
OK gang, the biggest strength of Meebo, that it’s web-based, has also been the biggest strike against it. For those of us who are using it as a service, it’s a bit of a pain to remember to fire it up, and to have the web browser open. Accidentally shut down the page or have…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on a Mac desktop
Yesterday I posted a screencast about how to embed a MeeboMe widget right on the desktop using ActiveDesktop. While surfing around to see who else had made use of this, I found a link to a Flickr page from late 2005 where someone was using ActiveDesktop to show their Meebo account, and in the comments…
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Some screencasting news
I’m pleased to see Greg Notess has been posting again at the LibCasting blog. The other day he pointed to FreeScreencast.com, which offers the software and online hosting, much like Jing. I haven’t tried FreeScreencast or TipCam (note, TipCam appears to be dead now – Oct, 2013), which does the exact same thing. There are…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on your desktop
Hey, I’m excited about this one! At a meeting yesterday we were considering additional places we could stick our MeeboMe widget (you may recall we’ve had it embedded in our catalogue since the beginning of October, 2007). Someone wondered if we could embed it on the desktop, and I recalled that Microsoft has something called…
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Watch how Molly McDonald makes a screencast
A neat post from Molly McDonald of DemoGirl.com showing exactly how she creates a screencast using Camtasia Studio 4.
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Utilizing WebQuests for Information Literacy Instruction in Distance Education
Haven’t actually looked at this article myself… Author: Blummer, BarbaraSource: College & Undergraduate Libraries, Volume 14, Number 3, 18 December 2007 , pp. 45-62(18) Abstract:The increasing use of problem-based learning in higher education affords librarians new avenues for promoting the development of information literacy skills among students. Information literacy instruction supports problem-based learning activities by…
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InfoLit with a sense of humour
The University of Alberta Augustana Library has made their award-winning DVD, It Changed the Way I Do Research – Period: Augustana Talks Information Literacy, available for free online. Here’s a promo teaser from YouTube: This isn’t something to show to your students; it’s much more a multimedia explanation of how the InfoLit program runs at…