Screencasting 101
Stop watching videos and do your homework! But Mom, this is my homework! Before embarking on my first screencast video production, I watched sample screencasts on various sites. On the Viewlet Builder...
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This week has been a revelation to me about the value of screencasts, which I had previously thought were limited to boring screen capture recordings with text captions. Just a few days ago at my...
View ArticlePromotional Video for Cool Tools
While working on my Cool Tools screencast about Animoto, I also created a short Animoto video about Cool Tools.
View ArticleCool Tools Screencast – Animoto
My Cool Tools screencast is about Animoto – a tool for making music videos from your images. You can view it now on YouTube. It will be posted to the Cool Tools blog on April 8.
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Cool Tools Podcast – Animoto
My Cool Tools podcast episode provides an overview of how to use Animoto to make a music video from your pictures. On April 8 it will be posted to cooltoolslibrary2.blogspot.com. In the meantime, you...
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At Play in the Library
Gaming events have become a popular program at some public libraries, but running such programs is not child’s play and can be controversial, especially when library 2.0 technologies make people widely...
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Stranger in a Strange Land – Second Life
Several activities in our course have taken me outside my comfort zone: FaceBook, Twitter, podcasting, posting videos on YouTube… but none so far outside as Second Life. This is my third visit to...
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Can We Talk?
This is going to date me, but… often when I see people using cell phones and other mobile communication technologies, I think of the old television show “Get Smart.” In that 1960s comedy, secret agent...
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Let’s Get Together
My final project for LIBR-246 (Social Software and Web 2.0) was a comparison of free web-conferencing tools. I was looking for tools that met these criteria: Always free Many simultaneous attendees...
View ArticleDiablo Valley School
This video was made by a student at Diablo Valley School, a Sudbury school in Concord, California, offering democratic, ungraded, student-led education for ages 5 through 19, traditional grades...
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