Screencasting for Libraries (The Tech Set) - Softcover

Notess, Greg R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555707866 ISBN 13: 9781555707866

Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2012

Synopsis

This complete how-to offers proven tips and techniques for creating engaging screencasts and publishing them on the Web. Examples use various software options such as free web-based programs like Screenr, Jing, and Screencast-O-Matic as well as commercial software programs Camtasia Studio and Adobe Captivate. Greg Notess covers every detail from planning to software and microphone selection. He provides step-by-step instructions on making a quick screencast for students, making a quick tech support screencast, creating an individual tutorial with audio, creating a quick demo for email reference and library promotion, and producing a basic database tutorial.

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About the Author

Greg R. Notess is reference team leader and a professor at Montana State University. He has been writing, speaking, and consulting about Internet information resources and search engines since 1991 and about screencasting since 2005. A three-time Information Authorship award winner, he is the “On the Net” and “Search Engine Update” columnist for ONLINE. Greg is the author of several books, including Teaching Web Search Skills: Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers and the first three editions of Government Information on the Internet. An internationally known conference speaker on search engines and other Internet topics, he has spoken at conferences such as Internet Librarian, Online Information, Web Search University, the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, and international meetings in London, Tel Aviv, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Pretoria, Montreal, Copenhagen, Sydney, Zagreb, and several locations in India. He has consulted for several major (and minor) search engines and maintains Search Engine Showdown which reviews, compares, and analyzes web search tools. He also runs the LibCasting blog which focuses on screencasting and libraries

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555707866
• ISBN 13: 9781555707866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120