Category: Tutorials
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Blended Librarian Event: Developing Multimedia Teaching and Learning Content
Last August I discovered the Blended Librarian site, which now resides exclusively at the Learning Times Library Online Community. There’s some really good stuff available through this site, but you have to register to see any of it (it’s free). Personally I find the site confusing. I get emailed updates when there’s new content added,…
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More Captivate vs Camtasia
A followup to yesterday’s post on exactly the same subject, there’s an article in the March 2005 issue of Presentations magazine called Screen-Capture to Go that compares these same two products. Well, it’s mostly about Camtasia, but includes some overview of Captivate as well. I learned that Camtasia has a powerpoint plugin that would seem…
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Camtasia vs. Captivate
Meredith at Information Wants to be Free has a nice comparision of Camtasia and Captivate. She points out that these impressions are based on only a few days of work with each product, but I was impressed with her list of pros and cons for each product. For me, the list of cons with Camtasia…
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Guide to Distance Learning
This is a nice use of Flash, though I have to agree with Stephen’s criticisms, and of course point out that the library gets pretty short shrift in the overall picture. It’s mentioned a few times towards the end of the Study Guide section, but pretty much only in passing. It’s nice that the library…
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Review of iMediaCONVERT (PowerPoint to Flash)
Last summer I wrote about my experience with a now defunct product called Qarbon ViewletPresenter that converted a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation into a Flash file for easy and fast viewing on the web. While I finally got that product to work, it did have a number of glitches. In the comments section of that post…
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Screen capture for Mac
I too have been asked by readers of this blog if I know of any Mac software that does something similar to ViewletBuilder or Captivate (rumor has it that ViewletBuilder will soon be releasing a Mac version), but I hadn’t really found anything. Today I found this list mentioned by Jean-Claude that automatically earned him…
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RSS – Not with it yet?! (Bloglines)
A nice tutorial on basic Bloglines use made by Rich Hoeg at Honeywell with Macromedia Breeze. RSS – Not with it yet?! (Bloglines) Okay, if you’re reading this blog, and have not started using a RSS feed reader to subscribe …. get with it! The ability to customize searches and knowledge delivery to your own…
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Advice for a Librarian
Seems the readers of this blog could probably offer a lot of ideas to Meredith… Advice for a Librarian Meredith blogs: “I’m going to be doing a presentation on information literacy in a few weeks, and I’m planning on looking at how new technologies can be used in information literacy instruction. I was thinking of…
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Visual Quickstart Guide – Macromedia Captivate for Windows
A couple of weeks ago the U of C got a subscription to Safari Tech Books Online, and I just found VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE Macromedia Captivate FOR WINDOWS in there 🙂 the above link will recognize your IP address if you also subscribe. This link is proxied to the U of C so *I* can…
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Macromedia – Captivate TechNote : Guidelines for integrating Breeze and Captivate
We’ve got both Breeze and Captivate available on campus (Well, the campus has Breeze and Rod and I have Captivate), so this information will likely come in handy someday soon: Macromedia – Captivate TechNote : Guidelines for integrating Breeze and Captivate.