LibCasting

I came across an interesting Quicktime screencast of How to use OpenID. I find it helpful to watch non-library-related screencasts not only to see how others put together a screencast, but by watching a screencast about a resource that I don’t know much about, I can analyze my reactions to try and understand how viewers [...]

I’ve added a couple new screencasts to my Database Examples page. First of all, CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox add-on extension which can, surprise!, customize Google in a wide variety of ways. When they updated their extension recently, I was pleased to see they offered screencasts, labeled as their “Introduction Movie.” With three versions available (Flash, [...]

At 7:40 into the YouTube video showing Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, this video finally becomes a screencast and demonstration of the new Photoshop. What I found interesting here is that to demonstrate an application like Photoshop which uses up so much screen real estate and yet make it viewable within the small YouTube window, the [...]

Last month, Meredith Farkas mused about screencasting. She mentions a variety of issues, includes links to other sources (including this blog), and talks about how more academic libraries seem to be using the technology than public libraries. My favorite quote — “You can make a very basic screencast — that you film and narrate simultaneously [...]

Screencasting software often has a PowerPoint plug in which can be used to convert a lecture with PowerPoint to a screencast. I have not used this feature to produce any screencasts yet, but I have seen several that have been done this way. It seems especially useful for recording an entire lecture. Kevin Yank has [...]