LibCasting

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 [...]

I always enjoy reading others’ advice about screencasting. Today, I came across a post from earlier this week from Under the Raedar called My Rules of Screencasting.  I especially like finding advice that agrees with my own, and from his list of seven points, I’ll fully support 1,2 , 3, 5, and 6, at least. [...]

This past weekend I was updating the WordPress software that runs this blog to the latest version, and I came across a screencast that shows some new features. The page hosting the screencast even notes that “This was my first screencast, but I hope we can have more on WordPress.org and our documentation in the [...]

For the more technically minded Web designers, A List Apart has an article, Flash Embedding Cage Match, that looks at various methods in which Flash can be embedded on a Web page. A List Apart always aims for standards-compliance, and sometimes their approaches will not work in all browsers, but it might be useful to [...]

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 [...]

So I had the opportunity to create a quick screencast for an updated FAQ page at work. Since I’ve been busy lately, this was a good opportunity to use my techniques for creating one in less than 30 minutes, just like I teach in my Creating Online Tutorials in Less Than 30 Minutes workshops. I [...]