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Entries from July 2007

Screencasting

July 28th, 2007 · No Comments

One of the most valuable resources I create are instructional videos. The tool I use for screencasting on my MacBook is iShowU. Apart from being one of the only screencasting tools available for OS X Tiger, its price is very reasonable – $20.00 USD.
Here’s one of the first screencasts I’ve made:

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Tags: online tools · online video · professional development

Trying to work around YouTube blocking: Common Craft videos on wikis/RSS

July 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

I use this blog as an instructional tool and as a personal repository of digital objects. The blocking of YouTube is a hinderance to my potential audience of teacher-librarians within my division. My division works around the YouTube issue by providing staff with a repository called WebFiles.
To view video found on YouTube I had to [...]

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Tags: Blogging Issues/Publishing Ethics · information literacy · online video