Category: Tutorials
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Why D’Arcy Norman is a minor deity – reason #27 (Screencasting on the Mac)
D’Arcy Norman works in the Teaching and Learning Centre here at the University of Calgary, and has helped me with at least 26 projects or ideas prior to this, but I just wanted to share the latest with you. As you know, I’ve been looking for a tool that will produce screencasts on the Mac…
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So close it’s painful – Screencasting on the Mac
Well I finally found a nice screencasting app for the Mac that outputs to Flash – Screen Mimic. Dead simple to use, and a great price of $25. But it doesn’t record audio, and doesn’t allow for annotations to be added after the fact, so there’s no way to explain what’s happening in the screencast. …
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How important is audio quality in Screencasting?
Is good audio quality for your screencasts worth $100? I’ve never had a student complain that they couldn’t understand what I was saying in one of my screencasts, but the other day I was experiencing some techno-lust and wondered if D’Arcy’s fancy microphone would make a measurable improvement to the quality of the audio in…
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Effectively incorporating instructional media into web-based information literacy
Just finished reading the following article: Title: Effectively incorporating instructional media into web-based information literacyAuthor(s): Li ZhangJournal: The Electronic LibraryYear: 2006 Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Page: 294-306 I read it with WISPR in mind, to see how we stacked up, and I think we’ve done a pretty good job so far. The article started a…
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Comprehensive overview of Screencasts and Screencasting in Education
Courtesy of a pointer from Stephen’s Web comes a wonderful overview of Screencasts and Screencasting from Graeme Daniel of wwwtools for teachers. Not sure why I hadn’t heard of this site before, but I’m definitely watching it now. Graeme goes way beyond the cursory compilation of links to provide a look at the history of…
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Call for Chapters – casebook on online information literacy programs
As noted on the OffCamp listserv, and in A Library Writer’s Blog, there is a call for chapters for an upcoming casebook on online information literacy programs. Chapter proposals are due on or before Sept. 30, and if accepted, they’ll be looking for about 15-pages by Feb 2007. “The goal of the book is to…
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An introduction to Screencasting – SirsiDynix Institute
Just posted on the SirsiDynix Institute future seminars page is notice of my Wed, Nov 8 session entitled Show and Tell the Easy Way – an Introduction to Screencasting. It runs from 11am-12 EST (8-9am PST) and should also be available after the fact as a recorded session and audio-only podcast, though I do plan…
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Streaming Media Magazine review of Captivate and Camtasia
My colleague Jennifer went to SLA and brought me back the May 2006 issue of trade magazine Streaming Media, which has a review / comparison of Captivate and Camtasia Studio. The article’s not online, nor is it in any of the major aggregators. 🙁 Jan Ozer is the author, and it appears that he’s giving…
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Keeping in touch with the Big 3 Screencasters
I’m reading Naked Conversations right now, and earlier this week I was thinking how much I appreciate the TechSmith Visual Lounge blog. Once upon a time I had a good relationship with one of the customer service reps at Qarbon, and he kept me updated with what was new with ViewletBuilder, but he’s gone now…