This week’s activities for the LIBR 246 class under Prof. Debbie Faires is about screencasting, defined by Ellyssa Kroski in her article written for the School Library Journal, That’s infotainment: How to create your own screencasts, as
“videos that record the actions that take place on th ecomputer screen, most often including a narrative audio track, [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Screencast in flash format
Mar 15
In the second episode I continued my discussion of different uses of libraries are using podcast for and gave some tips for beginners who are planning on using this information tool in their library.
In the first episode of my podcast I enumerated some of the uses different kinds of libraries are using podcasts for. I also cited examples mentioned by Meredith Farkas in her book, Social Software in Libraries.
As a podcast consumer
Mar 11
Just like in subscribing to RSS feeds and tagging sites in del.icio.us, hunting for podcasts on the iTunes podcast directory, or going directly to the sites that offer them, or checking out other podcast directories mentioned in this week’s reading and resources is both fun and a little bit overwhelming. George Schwartz mentioned in his [...]
Hunting for podcasts
Mar 11
The activities for this week on podcasts required students of the LIBR 246 class under Prof. Debbie Faires to wear two hats, a consumer and a creator of podcasts. As a consumer of podcasts, we were asked to syndicate content using two methods. The first method is to use our RSS aggregator, in my case, [...]
Podcasting blues
Mar 11
I tried something new and scary for this week’s activities for our LIBR 246 class under Prof. Debbie Faires. Yup, you read that right, scary, as in recording and listening to my own voice and posting it on this blog. The very thought is already making my skin crawl. Unfortunately, I am one of those [...]
Light bulb moment
Mar 6
This has been a productive week for me as I try to squeeze every not-at-work hour I have, to fulfill assignments on both my LIBR 246 and LIBR 248 classes. I was able to submit the social bookmarking assignment for LIBR 246 and my “create your own name authority record” online exercise and practice exercise [...]
