LibCasting

So I’ve been playing around with some of the newer, free screencasting programs that including hosting. I created a quick and short screencast with each on the topic of finding the ERIC thesaurus from our library site. See what you think of the output. I’m using five different programs that all offer a free screenrecording [...]

I wish I noticed this earlier today, but for another couple of hours, you can get DemoCreator free at Giveaway of the Day (GOTD). Scroll down to the “Download Democreator now” link and be sure to install it and activate it before the deadline to get it for free. It apparently retails for $129.95, although [...]

Well this is not exactly screencasting, but Demofuse is a fascinating technology anyway. You can use it to create a special link that gives a tour of a Web page. I’ve only played around with it a bit, but it seems to be limited to a one page tour at a time, and you have [...]

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 Internet Librarian 2006 in Monterey on Wed. Oct. 25 at 11:30, I’m leading an interactive Training Tutorial Tour looking at a variety of screencasting tutorials as well as other library tutorials. I hope the audience will participate in identifying strengths and weaknesses of each. I’ll be curious to see if we all agree on [...]