Friday, April 3, 2009

Thing 38 -- Screencasting

05/01/2009
Okay, so I never moved on to the next thing and I'm just now getting back to this thing. We've been swamped at work with students and preparations for the accreditation team visit.

We recently had our overall college website overhauled by an outside vendor. And in doing so I no longer have control over the design and can no longer immediately update information as I need/want. I understand the overall need to have the college website be uniform in design but for our library web pages we now have multiple layers of pages to get to our info & links that we and our students use every day. Our students aren't happy with the design and are having trouble getting used to finding the info (catalog, databases etc) in the new format. So my screencast is a simple show of where to find us and all of our old links in new places. If I were going to use this in real life I would like it to also have audio but my computer does not have that capability. So, here's a small, quick screencast that I did using Jing.

.......hmmm, I can't seem to upload my screencast ... I keep getting an error msg. ... I'll try again later ... or?? suggestions??

Jing -- other than my little upload problem, I found this to be a very easy to use tool and I hope to find actual uses for it in the future!

04/03/2009
hmmm, screencasting ... I've been stuck for about a week or so trying to decide what I should attempt to screencast ... no great lightening bolts of ideas have come to me ... so for now, being that I like "order" I'm going to just post this "place holder" blog entry and move on.