LibCasting

I have given my workshop “Creating Online Tutorials in Less Than 30 Minutes” several times this year. This site is based on much of that content, but if you’d like to read some attendee’s summaries of the workshop that I gave in Monterey at Internet Librarian 2006, see Cindy Chick’s post at LawLibTech and one [...]

At Internet Librarian 2006 in Monterey on Wed. Oct. 25 at 11:30, I’m leading an interactive Training Tutorial Tour looking at a variety of screencasting tutorials as well as other library tutorials. I hope the audience will participate in identifying strengths and weaknesses of each. I’ll be curious to see if we all agree on [...]

Techsmith has updated Camtasia Studio to version 4. While I have yet to download the new version to try it, there are some nice sounding features like more output formats, including m4v for podcasts, improved audio editing capabilities, production previews, open ended survey questions, extending end frames to fit added audio, closed captioning, and more. [...]

Paul points out that Adobe is now shipping Captivate 2 and that Techsmith will have version 4 of Camtasia Studio out soon (next week if they stay on schedule). I’m hoping to see that both find the balance between being even easier to use and adding more features and capabilities.

I have mostly been adding content into the pages (the top tabs and also links from the Pages section in the sidebar to the right). I’ll use those to add links to screencasts and notes about the process, software, hardware, etc.

After creating screencasts and exploring screencast software for the past year and a half, I have been wanting to put some of my materials online. I have been teaching several half day workshops on creating screencasts, “Creating Online Tutorials in Less Than 30 Minutes,” and I plan to use this experimental blog to share my [...]