These are the links that I referenced during my Introduction to Screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute. The archived seminar will soon be available online, and when it is I’ll replace this sentence with a link to it. The examples that I hope to show include:
Book Title Search from Central Michigan University’s Off Campus Library Services. I really like how their screencasts are so well-integrated into the whole site. Note also how they’re only showing the small section of screen that’s relevant to the topic; no need to capture the entire desktop. These were done with Captivate.
How scholarly search engines differ, by the UCLA Library. Nice, clean audio. Excellent example of a topic that lends itself to "create once, show as often as necessary". Created with Camtasia Studio.
Jon Udell’s Heavy Metal Umlaut (Camtasia Studio)
Screencasting to aid your failing memory.
Sizer can be found here. It’s a great free app for quickly resizing any application so your recordings are a consistent size. More tips can be found at Betsy Weber’s Screencasting Tips for Beginners. (Betsy works for Techsmith)
The products mentioned during the presentation include:
Wink (free)
CamStudio (free)
Qarbon ViewletBuilder
Adobe Captivate
Techsmith Camtasia Studio
iShowU (Mac)
ScreenRecord (Mac)
More tools (not necessarily mentioned but that you’ll be interested in)
Even more tools (from Wikipedia)
The hosting sites mentioned were:
YouTube
Screencast.com (Techsmith)
ViewletCentral (Qarbon)
Here’s a really good comparison of almost all the free video hosting sites.
Keeping up with new developments:
http://del.icio.us/tag/screencasting and http://del.icio.us/tag/screencasts
http://technorati.com/tag/screencasting
LibCasting (Greg Notess)
ANTS (Animated Tutorial Sharing) Project
The summary from the man who popularized the genre: What is Screencasting?
UPDATE: Here’s my PowerPoint; some folks indicated that they’d prefer to see that rather than the PDF that was made available after the webcast.
Comments
One response to “SirsiDynix Screencasting Links”
This was absolutely wonderful. I hadn’t attended a SIRSI program before but I will again based on the presentation you gave which was timely(for me) and well done. We are getting ready to build some screencasts to teach people how to use Ebsco and other database programs, it will be interesting to use your links to see what may be already available.