Category: Tutorials
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More Screencasting News – ViewletBuilder 5 released
Qarbon’s ViewletBuilder was the first piece of software I seriously used for screencasting, way back before we knew what to call it 🙂 I haven’t used it lately, but see they’ve just released version 5, so I’ll have to give it a quick try. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, ViewletBuilder
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Jing – Techsmith’s first screen capture and screencasting product for the Mac
Interesting that I’m more excited about Jing being Techsmith’s first foray into OSX than I am about the product itself, but there you go! It’s available for Windows too, but only XP and Vista, not 2K, which is what I run at the office, so I haven’t played with it on the Windows side. Techsmith…
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Lat/Long Bookmarklet for Google Maps
Not your typical distance education-related posting, except you might want to know where your students are – yeah, that’s the connection! 😉 Last week my family started geocaching – great fun and I highly recommend it if you don’t live deep in a big city. Even then it can be done, but it’s different. Anyhoo,…
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Wikis in Plain English
Following on the success of their excellent RSS in Plain English, The Common Craft Show presents Wikis in Plain English (just under 4 minutes): Click To Play I was happy to hear they’ve paid more attention to the quality of the audio on this one – that was the only real problem with the first…
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7 Things You Should Know About RSS
Another in a long line of shorties but goodies, Educause recently released 7 Things You Should Know About RSS. Useful for explaining how RSS is used especially in higher education, I learned about a new-to-me resource maintained by Peterson’s: College and University Feed Directory. It has, amongst the other categories, links for Libraries – General,…
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Screencastvertising
A colleague working on the ANTS project pointed me to the slick introduction to the Encyclopedia of Life on their homepage. It’s mostly a screencast, but in addition to being informational, it’s also inspirational. They don’t intend to show step by step how to use their site, but they do show off some of the…
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Wanna be a beta tester for Adobe Captivate 3?
No promises, but if you can fill out their 25-question survey by Thursday May 3rd (hopefully the end of the day) you’ve got a chance at being a beta tester for Adobe’s Screencasting product. Technorati Tags: Adobe, Captivate, Screencasting
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RSS Alerts in EBSCO Databases
Earlier this week I got a mailing from EBSCO in which they claimed they were re-launching RSS alerts for searches. I tried to follow their instructions but had no success, and assumed this must be a feature we had to manually enable in our admin module, but Ken Varnum at RSS4Lib pointed out that the…