Library & Information Services » screencast http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis We Bring Knowledge to You Fri, 24 May 2013 14:57:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Aesthetics of the Moving Image http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/08/aesthetics-of-the-moving-image/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/08/aesthetics-of-the-moving-image/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:23:43 +0000 Alex Chapin http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=27490 Continue reading →]]> Louisa Stein is an assistant professor of Film and Media Culture.  In the spring of 2010, I interviewed Prof. Stein about her use of technology in a number of her courses.  Below is a screencast from that interview that describes her use of WordPress and Moodle in a first year seminar course on the “Aesthetics of the Moving Image.”.

 

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/08/aesthetics-of-the-moving-image/feed/ 0 Course Hub Case Studies http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/01/course-hub-case-studies/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/01/course-hub-case-studies/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:09:34 +0000 Alex Chapin http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=27434 Continue reading →]]> The Course Hub is being actively used by a variety of courses this fall.  To give a sense of the different ways faculty are using this new platform, we’ve made a short screencast that shows a number of courses and some the resources they have linked to their course hub sites.

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2011/12/01/course-hub-case-studies/feed/ 0 Video tutorial quick start http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/07/06/video-tutorial-quickstart/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/07/06/video-tutorial-quickstart/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:18:29 +0000 Jess Isler http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=23605 Continue reading →]]> Joy and I created some short video tutorials on finding music CDs in MIDCAT, and since we posted them here we’ve been asked by various people within LIS to share what tools we used to create them. We were looking for a quick way to create screen capture videos with audio (aka screencasts). Here’s what we used:

Equipment needed

USB microphone or headset (available for checkout at Davis Family Library, Armstrong Library, & the Music Library)

Tools needed

Community clips (click to download; for info, click here)

Any Video Converter (click to download; for info, click here)

Upload space (Middmedia; 500MB of space, free to all Middlebury College users)

Publishing platform (e.g. LIS Blog/Wordpress, or a wiki, or a course website)

Steps

  1. Create a script and practice. Keep it simple; don’t use jargon (if you must, then explain it!) Keep your video short and to the point!
  2. Using Community clips and the microphone, make your video.
  3. Use Any Video Converter to convert the file from the .wmv to .mp4 (mpeg-4) file format. (NB: With a bit of trial and error, we set the conversion frame view to 720×576 and the bitrate to 768, but you should experiment and see what works best for your needs.)
  4. Upload your video to Middmedia.
  5. You can now embed your video directly from Middmedia into your blog, wiki, or website, or get a link to send it via email. To embed the video in this WordPress blog, we followed the instructions here.

The Middmedia page on the LIS Wiki has lots of information on how to embed video in the wiki, on blogs, and elsewhere.

There are other tools that make it easy to make video screen captures (like Jing). Take some time to explore the options, and please feel free to share tips and info. here so we can all learn from one another. Thank you to Dan Frostman for sharing Community clips with us, and to all the creators and contributors to the wiki documentation on Middmedia.

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