Category: Web/Tech
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Webcasting Pointers
David King has posted his tips for successful webcasting based on two recent online presentations he gave. DE Librarians are likely to find themselves using tools like Elluminate or who knows what else to deliver instruction in the same environment, and taking a look at these tips before you go online can only improve your…
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Adobe Captivate 2.0 on the way…
Amit reports that Adobe is in the beta stage for the next version of Adobe Captivate (the screencasting software formerly known as Macromedia Captivate after it was formerly known as RoboDemo). My ramblings on the product. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, Captivate
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Off Campus Library Services Conference Keynote – Marshall Keys
Last night the keynote was delivered by Marshall Keys, and was titled Lost in Translation: what today’s trends show about tomorrow’s libraries. As I mentioned briefly in a previous post, this turned out to be pretty much the same talk Stephen Abrams gives on Millennials and what they mean to our future, but it was…
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It’s so green!
Have landed safely in Savannah for the 2006 Off Campus Library Services Conference, which is more than I can say for my luggage. Hopefully it will arrive sometime tonight, as my presentation is at 8:30 AM on Thursday. TWT. (my co-presenter arrived late last night and still doesn’t have her luggage!) I’d forgotten what green…
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Online Research Toolkit presentation
I’m just now finally getting around to looking at some of the presentations from last week’s Library & Information Resources track of HigherEdBlogCon. Great idea in theory, but I’m still finding it difficult to set aside the time to give the presentations the full attention they deserve. One presentation I did spend some time with…
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50 Ways to Take Notes
I’ve mentioned Writely before, and while it’s not exclusively a tool to support distance learners, it’s damn useful and something you and your students should at least be aware of. Well I just learned about 49 similar tools! Fifty Ways to Take Notes is an annotated list of Web 2.0 tools that allow you to…
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Thoughts on Macromedia Captivate
The Web4lib discussion list recently wrapped up a slew of posts discussing the virtues of Macromedia Captivate, with some additional discussion of Qarbon ViewletBuilder and a surprisingly (to me) small number of comments on Camtasia Studio. You can pick up the discussion here – scroll down (or Ctrl-F) to the subject of [Web4lib] Macromedia Captivate…
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The Embedded Librarian – Library Journal article
A very brief article from the April 1, 2006 issue of Library Journal, The Embedded Librarian discusses how librarians at the University of Rhode Island made themselves more accessible to distance students (though everything they describe can be used by traditional students as well). Librarians are enrolled as teaching assistants in several WebCT courses, offer…
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Survey of Off-Campus Library Services
A month ago I noted the rebirth of the Canadian Library Association’s Services for Distance Learning Interest Group, and also noted that the new convener has a survey on what DE Librarians feel are the most important services to offer their patrons. At that time I found the survey wasn’t working correctly, but Laurie now…
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Another RSS to E-mail service
Amit blogs that there’s a new kid on the block when it comes to RSS to Email services, and it’s likely to prove to be a big kid ’cause it’s a service from Feedburner! I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I guess you can add it to the rest of the…