Category: Tutorials
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13 Tips for Recording Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod
In the most recent TechSmith newsletter was a link to recent post on their site titled, 13 Tips for Recording Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. In addition to the useful information, it was nice to see the author using screencasts of iOS devices to illustrate what was being discussed 🙂 to wit:
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Static vs. Dynamic Tutorials: Applying Usability Principles to Evaluate Online Point-of-Need Instruction
Turner, B., Fuchs, C., & Todman, A. (2015). Static vs. Dynamic Tutorials: Applying Usability Principles to Evaluate Online Point-of-Need Instruction. Information Technology & Libraries, 34(4), 30-54. doi:10.6017/ital.v34i4.5831 This article finds "that web usability testing was a useful tutorial-testing tool while discovering that participants learned most effectively from text-and-image tutorials, since both rounds of participants completed tasks…
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Article of interest: A Survey of Online Library Tutorials: Guiding Instructional Video Creation to Use in Flipped Classrooms
This article showed up in the most recent issue of JAL: A Survey of Online Library Tutorials: Guiding Instructional Video Creation to Use in Flipped Classrooms, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 41, Issue 6, November 2015, Pages 751-757. It seems to be a good snapshot of the current use of screencasts in ARL and CARL libraries.…
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Fun with OpenDataSoft – Mapping Calgary City Amenities
Earlier this month I happened across a blog post from a company called OpenDataSoft (ODS) in which they described how they put together and mapped a list of over 1,600 Open Data portals around the world. I thought that was pretty cool, and did a little exploration of their web-based platform and decided to try my…
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How to Extract Data from Tables in PDFs with Tabula and OpenRefine
Rahul Saigal has an excellent step-by-step post on how to extract data from tables in PDFS with Tabula and OpenRefine. I've had great success with Tabula, and am really starting to get excited about OpenRefine as well, having just completed this free online course, which I highly recommend: Introduction to OpenRefine. From the introduction to Rahul's…
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Screencasting iOS
A few days ago TechSmith released a new Labs tool called AppShow which is intended to allow developers to record demos of their iOS apps to include in the App Store. Just about the same time, Amit at Digital Inspiration posted how to do the same thing using QuickTime player. I finally carved out a…
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OS X Yosemite Makes it Easy to Screencast iOS Apps
Here's a nifty feature to look forward to in the fall – the ability to record screencasts of your iOS apps in order to incorporate them in to tutorials, etc… Once you connect an iOS 8 device to your Mac running OS X 10.10, it will be automatically available as a video camera. You can…
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Camtasia Studio 8.4 & Camtasia for Mac 2.8 Now Available: Cross-platform Screen Recording
To be honest, I kind of assumed they already talked to each other, but I guess the ability to record on one OS and edit on another is just new today. Camtasia Studio 8.4 & Camtasia for Mac 2.8 Now Available: Cross-platform Screen Recording. We’ve updated our screen recording file format, so you can pass screen…