Category: Tutorials
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New Blog – LibCasting
Just left a session presented by Greg Notess called Training Tutorial Tour and Tips in which we critiqued 4 different online tutorials, including a couple of screencasts, and Greg took the opportunity to unveil to the world his new blog, LibCasting: Screencasting and libraries. He’s only been posting through the month of October so there’s…
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Camtasia Studio 4 now shipping
As previewed a couple of weeks ago, Camtasia Studio 4 is now shipping. Amit at Digital Inspiration has posted what he feels are some of the significant improvements to the product, including mention of their new screencast-hosting service, Screencast.com. Both Studio 4 and Screencast.com offer 30-day free trial periods. Incidentally, I’ve never played with it,…
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The Fall of Screencasting
Ha! Got you with the title of this post, didn’t I? No, screencasting’s not heading downhill; quite the contrary. That’s just me being witty, see, ’cause it’s Fall, and there’s lots going on with screencasting. First up, both Adobe and Techsmith have new versions of their screencasting products out this month. Adobe is now shipping…
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Collaborative Screencasts and Blog Recommendation
I’ve got an undersung blog to recommend to you: Brain_blog from the Library at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. The librarians there are using this blog more as a newsletter, and only publish to it once per month, with a single lengthy post, and that’s why it’s probably not as well-known as it should be. …
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Examples of screencasts built with Wink
It’s been an awful long time since I took a look at Wink, one of the free screencasting tools that are floating around for Windows. Last time I looked, Wink didn’t even support audio, something that has come to be a necessity in my checklist for screencasting tools. It seems it now does, and I’ve…
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Adobe Captivate 2 webinars
Last week Adobe announced the imminent release of version 2 of Adobe Captivate (formerly Macromedia Captivate). I didn’t mention it then ’cause you can’t actually get your hands on the product yet – they say another 3-4 weeks before it ships. Oddly, in one of the comments the product manager says this delay is due…
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Great example of how voice can enhance your screencast
Shelly Drumm at Houston Community College Libraries has just posted a great Macromedia Captivate screencast that walks her students through the various IM options available to them (native client, Meebo, Chatango). The screencast’s really well done, with options to choose what to learn about, and to repeat if necessary, but what really struck me was…
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Camtasia studio on the Mac?
Techsmith is trying to justify developing a version of Camtasia Studio for the Mac. As you know, this is something I’d love to see, and I’ve been contacted by other librarians looking for this to happen as well. Troy Stein, product manager for Camtasia Studio, has a survey up at http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225KKUB3JMP – if you’re a…
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RSS – Information Pizza
Steven Cohen points to Luke Rosenberger’s great tutorial on RSS. Questions asked and answered: What is RSS? What kind of information can I get via RSS? How do I subscribe to and use RSS feeds? How can I fit RSS into my workflow? What about content from online journals and library databases? How can I…