Category: Tutorials
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edugadget powercast – powerpoint presentations for ipods
Looks like Steve over at Edugadget is thinking along the same lines I am with the new iPod, ‘cept he does more than just talk about it 🙂 Link: powercast – powerpoint presentations for ipods.
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Online Tutorial Investigation
I’m here at the Access 2005 conference in Edmonton and finally have something to share that may be of interest to the distance folks. There’s a sort of preconference to Access called Hackfest, where a large wishlist is considered and a small number of projects are tackled in an all-day brainstorming / programming session. This…
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Really warming up to Camtasia Studio
Because I learned to screencast with Qarbon ViewletBuilder I have long felt that it was best to capture screens and then go back and dub voice and annotation. I’ve gotta say though, I’m really starting to come around to the idea of the quick and dirty live capture with audio to just get the thing…
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Another idea for video iPod and libraries
Brian and I have been corresponding today and he’s gone off on a related tangent for ways libraries can get themselves on the new video iPods. I like it! (of course now he’s tipped his hand, and even if it is edgy someone will figure out it’s all carefully crafted 😉 Link: The Sisyphus Stone.
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Screencasts on the new iPod?
OK, disclaimer here, I’m not suggesting anyone use the tools mentioned in this post to break any laws. As many of you know, Apple unveiled a new iPod yesterday that can play video. Apparently all the cool (rich) kids will have one. Unfortunately I won’t, so I can’t test any of this out. If all…
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CaptivatePlayer: Delivering Captivate Content on the Web
Hey, check this out! Greg Szczyrbak, one of the first people I knew who jumped on the Captivate bandwagon, pointed me to CaptivatePlayer: Delivering Captivate Content on the Web. Basically it’s a menu wrapper for Captivate Flash files- a simple way to organize and make them available to the end user. Looks pretty straightforward in…
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Screencasting tools comparison
The TeleCampus Course Development Team at the University of Texas recently completed a side-by-side comparison of the major screencasting tools. Look across the top of the page for the links to demos of Captivate, ViewletBuilder/ViewletCam, and Camtasia. Last "tab" is a comparison, which I found a little confusing. There are numbers running down the left…
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What good are online tutorials?
Last week Rita Barsun posted a question about the effectiveness of online tutorials to several lists. Yesterday she posted a lengthy summary of the responses, and I found them to be quite enlightening. Of particular value to me were the citations to the literature that address this question. The posting is available in the OFFCAMP…
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Screencasting article in Computers in Libraries
The Sept 2005 issue of Computers in Libraries has a solid article on screencasting, though it’s called "demonstration authoring software" in the article. Written by two non-librarian IT folk, it starts with a nice introduction to the concept of screencasting, provides some solid tips for those who are new to the game, and includes a…
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Google Scholar vs PsycInfo
As noted by Dean at the UBC Google Scholar Blog, librarians at UCLA (is this Esther Grassian again?) have been busy creating a page to help students understand what Google Scholar is and isn’t. One of the highlights is the Camtasia Studio screencast comparing results and search options in Schoogle and PsycINFO. Nicely done, and…