LibCasting

I’m not in Philadelphia for ACRL today, but there was an interesting session this afternoon entitled “Do Screencasts Really Work? Assessing Student Learning through Instructional Screencasts.” Even better, ACRL has posted the PowerPoint slides, the paper, and a handout with links and sources. These report on research from the University of Michigan library attempting to [...]

I came across another screencast that only uses audio to add a music soundtrack. I was checking out the CrossLoop page which has a link to their demo video. Like the excellent CustomizeGoogle demo, the CrossLoop demo uses text within the screencast to communicate its main points. While I liked the screencast and watched most [...]

While I have known for some time that Camtasia can output a video to an animated GIF, I never had need of it previously. But as I was updating my search bookmarklets page, I thought that it would be nice to have a visual example of how the transfer search bookmarklets work. So using Camtasia [...]

Since my library launched a new Web site for this semester, I decided to use Demofuse to create a quick online tour of the new site. Take a look and see what you think. It seemed to work well for showing where key links had moved on our home page (although to reduce the external [...]

Webinaria appears to be another free program for creating screencasts. I have not tested it yet, but according to its site  it runs on Windows 98/2000/XP/Me/2003/NT/Vista, is freeware, and  “contains NO SPYWARE or ADWARE.” It also claims that it “will not slow down your computer.” It has Flash output, can include audio, and has combined [...]

I’m pleased to see that Genie Tyburski is now adding screencast to her wonderfully informative Virtual Chase site on legal information. She is using Camtasia Studio 5 and discusses the software and hardware being used. I expect more will be forthcoming, but for now, here is a list of what she has available. Searching SEC’s [...]

Earlier this year, Techsmith (makers of Camtasia Studio) released the free (although beta) Jing Project. This screencasting software works on Macs as well as Windows and comes with hosting at Screencast.com. Jing has few of the fancy features (or even much editing capability) when compared to Camtasia, Captivate, or even the free Wink. But it [...]

So after posting about Demofuse yesterday, I thought I’d post a screencast of what it is like to use. My Quick View of Demofuse (3.3 MB, 3:50) does not show all the features and is only based on my rather limited experience with Demofuse. Oh, and if anyone is interested in trying Demofuse, you need [...]

Paul “Distant Librarian” Pival has posted a YouTube video and a better quality screencast on how to find the RSS feeds now available on Ebscohost. The problem with posting a screencast on YouTube is that it is hard to read the text on the screens due to the YouTube resolution. I need to blog the [...]

While I’m catching up, I thought I’d follow up on my process post from November. I still haven’t finished (or even worked on) the screencast I talked about in that post, primarily because our site was going to be changing and the steps I wanted to show would be changing as well. That change is [...]