Category: Tutorials
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ACRL – Getting Started with Screencasting
ACRL is offering a 2-hour webcast on Thursday, April 26, 2:00 EDT: Getting Started with Screencasting. From the site: Webcast Description:This two hour session will explore screencasting—delivering screen captures via RSS—and its potential applications in the academic library. Participants will be provided with examples of screencasts, information on various software applications used to create screencasts,…
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Mac Screencasting Tips
Still no perfect all-in-one package, but Miraz Jordan has a nice post with tips and tools for screencapture and screencasting on the Mac. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, OSX
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UNC Greensboro Information Literacy Game
This may be well-known in the InfoLit circles, but it was new to me. UNC Greensboro has a nifty little Information Literacy (board)Game you can play, and download for use at your institution! Go ahead and give it a try – it’ll only take a few minutes – think your students will go for it?…
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Ovid MEDLINE Screencast
David Rothman points to a really well-done Camtasia Studio screencast of the Ovid MEDLINE interface. The screencast was done by a librarian at Yale, and while it’s 30 minutes long, the use of the web menu at the left of the screen makes it simple to jump back and forth to the sections you need…
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Intentional Design: Designing Effective Screencasts
Hey gang, if you missed my SirsiDynix session on Screencasting, or if you want another view, here’s your chance! ADETA says you all are invited too! The ADETA (Alberta Distance Education & Training Association) Online PD Committee would like to invite you and your colleagues to join us for another exciting Elluminate presentation! To sign…
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RSS Tutorials for Law Librarians
Jason Eiseman has a series of three really comprehensive screencasts explaining how Law Librarians can use RSS. Really though, anyone can learn from these; it’s just that the examples he uses are of interest to law librarians. Looks like these were done about 8 months ago, with PubSub (now defunct) appearing prominently in Part 3,…
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Me Day (publications and presentations)
A couple of self-referential links for you today. 1) The screencast of my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting is now available online. Seems to work best with IE, as it’s being shown with an embedded Windows Media player (not Flash, as I recommend in my presentation 😉 If you’re using Firefox, may I recommend the…
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Wii can screencast!
I guess I was a good boy last year, as my wife was able to score me a Wii for Xmas! The Wii includes an internet browser (based on Opera), and of course as a library geek I just had to see what it was capable of. Viewing Screencasts? Check! Accessing databases via EZProxy? Check! …
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Embedding Flash in a wiki
Chad at Library Voice posts about an extension for MediaWiki that allows Flash to be embedded. He was originally looking for a way to embed a MeeboMe widget, but after I asked he determined that it could just as easily be used to embed a screencast. Cool, thanks Chad! Technorati Tags: Flash, MediaWiki, Screencasts
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Idea for Screencasting on YouTube
Well I couldn’t get it to work in the 2 minutes I had left at the end of the day to play with it, but YouTube now allows you to record yourself from within YouTube, using your own webcam. So what’s the next obvious choice? Allow you to record your own desktop directly to YouTube! …