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DawneTortorella: Hi Folks, I thought it be a good introduction to state with a webcam
embedded in a screencast to say “hello” and welcome to the course.
Over the next four weeks we will be spending time developing screencasts, publishing them,
and then promoting them. We’ll look at developing online tutorials for patron and staff instruction
as another addition of toolset to instruction. So, let’s do a quick overview of what we
will be covering over the next four weeks. This first week we are going to concentrate
on planning. What do we need to know in terms of script writing, screen capture, how do
we create a storyboard for the content we want to produce in out tutorial So, that planning
phase is really important – picking the right topic that will be on target for your
community whether it be your patrons, your users, your staff.
Then we will look at how you can outline and organize that into a template form so that
you are ready so that you can quickly spend time producing that screencast
In Week 2 we will look at creation tools. The one I’m using right now is Screencast-o-matic
which allows you to embed a webcam. I’m not really advocating that because I’m not
sure it brings much to the table. I apologize that you have to look at me talking through
this screencast, but I wanted you to see my face so that we could get to know each other
a little better. So, we will look at these free tools. We will
produce some screencasts in an easy format using several free tools. After we get our
feet on the ground and start producing some of these screencasts we will then publish
them to the web. Because of course they have to be accessible for people to be able to
find them and access them. We will look at the embed codes required and
some hosting options, whether it is YouTube, your own library server, or screencast.com
– those are just some of the options available for hosting your online tutorials that you
create. And finally, our last week we are going to
look at how we leverage our tutorials. How do we get people to use them? How do we measure
their effectiveness? At what time should they be retired or reproduced? Etc.
So those are the topics for the next four weeks. I know we will be experimenting a lot.
I want this to be very interactive and experimental. We’ve got a large crowd, but I know I will
be learning from you and I’m really looking forward to seeing your screencasts. So start
out, I ask you to make sure in Week 1 – so that we get to know each other a little better
– follow the “Introduce Yourself” link from our Moodle course. It is right in Week
1. Go into the discussion and reply to the thread and create an introduction to yourself.
Tell us a little bit about what library you are from, why you are interested in screencasting,
and any other information that will help us get to know you better.
So, that’s it. That is a short introduction in a screencast format. I’m looking forward
to the next four week. Bye! See you soon!