Category: Tutorials
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ProQuest – Scholarly Journals, Trade Publications, and Popular Magazines
This is certainly not a new resource, but it’s one I keep misplacing, so I’m sticking it here where I know I’ll be able to find it again 🙂 It’s a two-page PDF chart that addresses the following criteria in helping students determine if a journal is scholarly or not: Appearance, Content, and Publising (with…
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Using interactive technology to teach info lit concepts to undergrads
That’s a shortened version of an article title I just finished: Armstrong, A. & Georgas, H. (2006). Using Interactive technology to teach information literacy concepts to undergraduates. Reference Services Review, Vol. 34(4) pp. 491-497. Just a short article describing how they put together a flash tutorial to teach some basic boolean concepts (specifically, AND), and…
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Screencasting Q&A
OK, there will only be one more post referencing my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting; I’ll let you know when the actual session recording is available to both watch and hear. Right now the mp3 is available; of course you’ll be missing the demos I showed. The real purpose of this post is to wrap-up…
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Adobe PRIMO Sites of the Month (October and November 2006)
Found on Laurie the Librarian’s blog, announcements for the October and November ALA/ACRL PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Material Online) sites of the month. October’s is made with Adobe Breeze, and November’s with Adobe Captivate. Quick takeaways for me: I didn’t realize Breeze supported ppt slide transitions as well as it does. That’s the way to deliver…
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But what if I just bought the old version?
I’m slowly putting together the answers to all the questions that were asked during my SirsiDynix Institute session on Screencasting last week. One person asked if I was sure that version 4 of Camtasia was out, as she had just bought version 3.x the previous week. I am sure, and told her that if she’d…
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SirsiDynix Screencasting Links
These are the links that I referenced during my Introduction to Screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute. The archived seminar will soon be available online, and when it is I’ll replace this sentence with a link to it. The examples that I hope to show include: Book Title Search from Central Michigan University’s Off Campus…
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Dotto on Libraries
Here in Canada we have a TV tech show for the layman called DottoTech, and a couple of months ago Steve Dotto ran a brief segment about using your local Public Library to access licensed databases. That clip (about 3 minutes) is now available online. I hope you won’t learn anything as a librarian from…
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Camtasia Studio vs. Adobe Captivate
The WebBriefcase Blog has just put up a comparison of Camtasia Studio 4 and Adobe Captivate 2. The author is a long-time Captivate user, and while it seems pretty close, decides in the end to stick with Captivate rather than switch to Camtasia Studio. He found the output formats superior in Camtasia Studio, but the…
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If you build it, will they learn?
I recently finished the following article: If you buld it, will they learn? Assessing online information literacy tutorials, by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, Lara Cummings, Corey M. Johnson and B. Jane Scales, College and Research Libraries, September 2006, Vol. 67, No. 2. Should be freely available online around March. Here’s the abstract: With the support of…
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What would you like to know about screencasting?
As I wrap up my final prep for next week’s SirsiDynix Institute, an Introduction to Screencasting, I thought I’d check to see what you thought I should be including. Either because you’re going to attend and want to learn, or if there’s something you think I should be sure to cover, will you let me…