Meredith Muses on Screencasts
December 10th, 2006 by Greg R Notess
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 — in 20 minutes. Or you can spend an entire day or more developing a really polished screencast tutorial.”
She also talks about her process and issues with creating screencasts: An introduction to library services and resources and one for Academic Search Premiere. The importance of being able to create these quickly is highlighted by her story that “I’d created a screencast on using Thomas about a week before they redesigned their Website and had to do it all over again.”
Also note the comment from GinaP about Idaho’s use of a screencast to explain a statewide library catalog to legislators. That sounds like a great use of the technology for anyone working with legislators.