Getting started with screencasting

I’ve been spending some time today learning more about screencasts and how to create them. I have added links to the ‘casting kit del.icio.us account, read some good articles, and watched some video tutorials on how to use Camtasia (the screencasting software we purchased with some of the grant funds). After doing all this, I [...]

What’s done, what’s next

With the 6-month review coming due pretty soon, I’m spending some time today evaluating what’s been done so far with the ‘Casting grant and what’s next on my to do list. In a nutshell, here’s what I have accomplished so far:

This blog was established for tracking all progress, results, and resources related to the grant.
All [...]

CCBC videos posted

More success today with posting the afternoon CCBC session from April 23rd. The entire workshop is now available at http://owlsweb.blip.tv/. I wanted to include a tip on something else I learned with the video conversion process, so I don’t lose track of that later.
In WM Converter, the free software I’m using to convert the mpeg-2 [...]

Success at last!

I have finally succeeded to post our CCBC workshop from April online (at least the morning session). Woohoo! The OWLSweb channel is now available on blip.tv at http://owlsweb.blip.tv/.
Here’s what I learned about posting longer program videos on the web with the grant resources at my disposal:

Cut longer videos into smaller bits to make them more [...]