LibCasting

Now that the new semester is underway and both our library Web site and catalog have changed their design, it is time to get moving on updating some of my screencasts. It is also a good reminder to update this blog. I’ve just published a number of entries that had remained as drafts for the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]