Category: Tutorials
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Improving the SFX menu
David Walker at Cal State has a really compelling presentation on why they’ve modified their SFX menu to look the way it does. It’s a 20-minute Captivate presentation. If you look after SFX at your school, you really should give this a look. (thanks for the tip, Jennifer)
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Camtasia Studio 5 Review
I mentioned at the beginning of the month that Camtasia Studio 5 was being released, and also that because I’m still on Win2K at the office I hadn’t had a chance to play with it. Still true, but Michael Pick at Web TV Wire has a very comprehensive overview and review of the screencasting product,…
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Sept PRIMO Site of the Month: Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles
Noticed a really nice Flash tutorial from Eastern Washington University was chosen as the September 2007 PRIMO Site of the Month – Citing Your Sources: APA and MLA Citation Styles. After learning about citation styles, users have the chance to click and drag various parts of the citation into the correct order, and then check…
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Camtasia Studio v5 on the way
Techsmith is about to release version 5 of Camtasia Studio, their excellent screencasting product. Betsy Weber is going to be introducing a new feature each day from now until the release date on October 9th, and first up is a feature called SmartFocus. Troy Stein, Camtasia’s product manager, has a good screencast (how else?) about…
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CLUE: Campus Library User Education
This showed up in my delicious feed watching for other people bookmarking examples of screencasts – U of Wisconsin-Madison’s CLUE: Campus Library User Education. It’s built using Adobe Captivate, and doesn’t include a lot of what we’d traditionally consider "screencasting", but I really like how it’s seamlessly integrated into the web pages instead of offered…
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Comparison of online Powerpoint hosting options
Amit at Digital Inspiration has a great comparison of the following tools, all of which can be used to host PowerPoint presentations online: Zoho Show, SlideShare, Scribd, SlideAware, and Splashcast. You can also skip to the end result and see the same slideshow displayed from each site all on the same page. Technorati Tags: PowerPoint,…
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Adobe Captivate 3 Library examples
In response to my earlier post about the pre-release of Adobe Captivate 3 (screencasting product), Kristofer Scheid at The Nexus 6 has posted his initial thoughts on the product, along with a couple of examples. Thanks Kristofer! Technorati Tags: Screencasting, Captivate
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APA Exposed!
No, there’s no scandal, I just threw the exclamation point on there to catch your eye. APA Exposed is the title of a really well-done tutorial on how to format papers using APA style. Put together as a flash slideshow by Wendy Mages, a Harvard Graduate School of Education, it runs 40 minutes, so is…
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Adobe Captivate 3 Trial now available
I’m not sure where the actual blog post has gone, but Silke Fleischer reports that Adobe Captivate 3 trial is now available for download. I tried to get in as a beta tester for this release, but neither the beta nor this trial version run on Windows 2000, though Silke says the full release version…