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COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project

Feb 7, 2006

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Earlier this week an official announcement was made to the COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) Regional Consortium introducing an idea that’s been in the works for almost two years – The COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing Project. In a nutshell, this is an attempt to share the source code for screencasts that have…

EBSCO and Grokker

Jan 27, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

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Finally read an EBSCO newsletter that’s been sitting in my inbox all week, and discovered that in February EBSCO will introduce a “Visual Search” feature to all (?) of their databases. When you watch this 30-second flash video of how it will work, you’ll see that it’s Grokker that’s been licensed. Time to update those…

SnagIt 8 released

Jan 26, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

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Sometime late last summer, Techsmith sent me a licensed copy of SnagIt 7 and Camtasia Studio to evaluate, in hopes that I would like them and tell the world. At the time, I was a staunch user of Qarbon ViewletBuilder Pro for my screencasting, and of Pixelmetrics CaptureWiz Lite for my average static screen capture…

Screencasting reviews

Jan 19, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

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When I first followed this link I found in one of my referring log files I was worried that this was simply a marketing site, as they seemed to be pushing a 50% discount on one of the reviewed products. I was very pleasantly surprised though, to find a really nice in-depth comparison of 4…

Camtasia Studio version 3.1 released

Jan 19, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

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I really haven’t had a chance to explore the enhancements, but today TechSmith released version 3.1 of Camtasia Studio for screencasting. You can read all about it, and watch a 30-minute screencast (made with 3.1) that demos the enhancements on the Visual Lounge blog. Looks pretty nice for the advanced user. Technorati Tags: screencasting

Library Stuff on ITI/Quint Podcasting

Jan 16, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

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Another Steven with which to agree – this time at Library Stuff, where Steven points out that just making files available as a downloadable mp3 but at a different URL each month does not a podcast make. I would add this to my list of subscribed podcasts in a heartbeat, but I’m not going to…

Educause – 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing Tools

Jan 13, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Miscellaneous, Tutorials, Web/Tech

Found via the Kept-up Academic Librarian, the latest in the Educause series of "7 Things You Should Know About": 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing Tools (2 page PDF). Collaborative Editing Tools include things like wikis and Writely, but this factsheet doesn’t mention any tools by name; it starts with a scenerio and…

Google Video Store and Distance Education

Jan 10, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

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The Google Video Store has launched with paid content. I haven’t visited Google Video for some time, so a lot of this may have been in there for a while now, but I thought I’d see what was available for the search library or libraries, and got 1,171 results! There seems to be a whole…

inflite :: University of Evansville Libraries Tutorial

Jan 9, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

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Michael at The Information Literacy Land of Confusion points to inflite :: University of Evansville Libraries Tutorial. This is a tutorial that combines elements from TILT and SearchPath. I haven’t gone through it all, but it looks nice and might provide some inspiration.