Category: Tutorials
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Digital Inspiration: Camtasia Studio 3.0 – Screencasting Swiss Knife
Amit at Digital Inspiration talks about some of the upcoming enhancements to Camtasia 3.0. Follow the link to the Techsmith page as there are even more features than the ones he mentions; quizzing being one feature you might be particularly interested in. – Link: Digital Inspiration: Camtasia Studio 3.0 – Screencasting Swiss Knife.
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Screencasting Strategies
Jon Udell outlines his steps for creating a typical screencast in Screencasting Strategies. Personally I still think he’s working too hard at it. I learned to screencast with Qarbon ViewletBuilder (also available for the Mac, though they still seem to have that sound problem), which only allows the user to take a series of sceenshots…
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Innovate – Using Screen Recording and Compression Software to Support Online Learning
Haven’t actually read the article yet, but this abstract suggests there might be something pedagogical to this whole screencasting idea, if used correctly. There’s an upcoming webcast conference call with the authors on June 17th 7:00PM EDT (what a cruddy time slot!) – you can register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ Innovate – Using Screen Recording and Compression…
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Quick Searchguide at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Eva at the library at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden sent me a link to their Quick Searchguide, which is a Flash-based menu system to direct students to research resources at their library. Nice marketing PDF shows the important student thumbs-up, and notes that libraries can buy the sourcecode to customize the resource…
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Myscreencast.com – Find and share screencasts
Jon Udell posts about a new forum that we DE librarians may find useful. I’ll certainly be watching this site, and may even contribute if I get some free time…Link: Myscreencast.com – Find and share screencasts
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Listen to Flash
So for ages and ages folks have used frames to present instructions on one side of the screen and a live database on the other. Guided tutorial is what I call it. Recently we began using Macromedia Breeze on my campus, and colleagues seem freshly intrigued with the possibilities of incorporating audio into online instruction. …
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Call for contributors #2 – J. of Lib & Info Services in Distance Learning
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It’s that time again – what may become my quarterly call to see if any gentle readers would like to contribute to the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. I have several ideas for topics, but am also interested in you bringing your own ideas to…
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Audio for Mac ViewletBuilder
As a followup to last night’s post about the introduction of the Mac version of Qarbon ViewletBuilder (incidentally there’s also a Linux version, but I have no way to play with that), I was able to sucessfully import the ViewletBuilder project I created with my iBook into my Windows version of the software to add…
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ViewletBuilder for the Mac is here!
OK all you Mac folk, now you too can join the screencasting revolution! As far as I know, this is the first software of this type that is available for the Mac. I was a beta tester for this version and I was pleasantly surprised to find how closely it mirrored the Windows version I…
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Screencasting to help your mom
Amit Agarwal has a nice roundup of screencasting tools, including of course the old standbys (ViewletBuilder, Camtasia and Captivate), but also including some links to some cheaper and lesser-known products. Link: The Indian Blogger: Screencasting to help your mom.