Screenpresso

http://www.screenpresso.com/

Free download. Grab, capture and resize; build in editor; Drag and drop into email; Share in twitter; Add effects; Batch resizing.

8 thinks you need to know about collaboration

from Dale Arseneault
http://reflectionskmoi.blogspot.com/2009/12/8-things-you-need-to-know-about.html

1. Collaboration is over used and mis-used and is becoming a buzzword for business people and technologists alike
2. Collaboration isn’t the same as cooperation or coordination - each have different processes, practices and depth of engagement
3. Collaboration is a human process – throwing technology at people won’t magically/automatically create collaboration
4. Meaningful, productive collaboration won’t happen without mutuality of desired outcomes, shared values of transparency and information sharing, compassion, compromise
5. Collaboration implies that "the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few or the needs of the one" and sometimes people aren’t really interested in living by that principle
6. Collaboration isn’t always the best process
7. Collaboration is not equal to Web 2.0
8. Collaboration can be a source of real value in the face of complex environments and situations where no single person has the right answer

Tools for remote collaboration

worth checking out some of these ... from karen coombs blog:

• iChat – Yes you can chat in iChat but did you know that you can video conference and screenshare? I’ve used iChat several times with other Mac users to demonstrate something I’m working on or look at a problem someone was having with a system. Because its built on technology that actually let’s you take control of another persons screen its very helpful for troubleshooting
• GoogleDocs – I really don’t know what I’d do without GoogleDocs. I used it with my co-author to write my first book and it really helped us edit each others work. I’ve used it to draft articles and share them with my editor. I use it to collaborate on functional requirements, presentaiton proposals, spreadsheets of info, and lots of other stuff. My second book chapters are also all in GoogleDocs so my co-author can edit and make suggestions. Its my go to when I need to create docs and use them across computers or share them with other people
• Skype – I’ve been on the road a lot the last year. Several times in places where my cell phone with my current plan didn’t work. Whether in Hamilton Ontario, Bratislava, Vancouver, or visiting my folks in Maine. Skype always works. Plus you can conference call folks on regular phones and those in Skype. Its been invaluable in collaborating with folks. Plus its cheap, I put $10 in my account last fall and I still haven’t used it all.
• Ustream – An easy way to stream video to the web. Love the fact that I can use the camera in my iMac or Air to easily stream a video. Another plus is that you can record the video and pull it down to put elsewhere, like Blip.tv
• Ustream + CamTwist – CamTwist is a great Mac freeware program that allows you to make your screen be the video source. Using this and Ustream you can screencast live what you are presenting. Very cool.
• Blip.tv – My go to place to put video. I like it because it allows you to license via Creative Commons, keep the original format of the video you uploaded, and has a great API. Enough said.
• TalkShoe – Another tool for conference calling with the added benefit of built in recording. TalkShoe is very cool. Greg Schwartz used it for his podcast show, which is how I learned about it. Good way to hold a BIG group discussion because Skype has gone to pieces on me in the past with more that 4-5 people.
• Box.net - During the writing of the first book Jason and I thought we’d share screen captures in Flickr only to discover that our TIFFs were too big for Flickr. Sigh. We needed another way to share files. Thus my Box.net account came into being. Jason likes Dropbox and I know others do too. While each has its pros and cons, we seem to use them in similar ways. Sharing documents seems to be a big one. I also use it as my “what if someone steals my laptop with my presentation on this trip” space. I like Box.net because I can get to it without installing anything. DropBox seems to have the added plus of allowing you to mount it like a drive and sync stuff to it, which is nice. I’m still going back and forth about whether or not I should switch.
• Amazon S3 + Jungle Disk – I started using S3 when I decided that losing my professional files was unacceptable and I didn’t want to have to take a hard drive with me when I fled from a hurricane. While S3 certainly solves my backup problems, it also has the side effect of allowing me to pretty much get to anything: documents, presentations, screen captures, photos, MP3, ebooks; from anywhere. I’ve stopped freaking out about did I remember to put everything I needed on the laptop for a trip or will I accidentally erase my iPod if I try to charge it. If I want to show someone something I don’t have with me, I just download it. I cannot even begin to express my love for S3. Jungle Disk has changed a bit since I started using it. I bought it when it was a desktop product that was a one-time fee. Now it is a monthly fee and works with other cloud storage options.

SOPHIE 2.0

Just stumbled across this and its way cool. "Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Funded by grants from the Mellon and Macarthur foundations and the University of Southern California, Sophie is free and entirely open-source. "

Anyone tried it yet? Check out the video on side bar for info: http://sophieproject.cntv.usc.edu/

10/GUI

Someone sent this on the SILS listserv, thought you'd be interested. Not directly related--

a very interesting video (10 mins) that nicely encapsulates many ideas that folks are working on these days (including at SILS :-) ). If you're interested in user interfaces, touch screens, and replacements for the computer mouse take a look at

http://10gui.com/video/

Help w/ Using Elluminate For Teaching

Here are two PDF docs I created to help in planning an online class:

• Checklist for Teaching a class w/ Elluminate
  
• Planning Worksheet for Teaching a class w/ Elluminate

Also, this site has some good general handouts on using Elluminate.

Plaigariasm Game from Sacramento City College

http://pilot.scc.losrios.edu/pilot/module6/tictactoe.html

Sakai

An interesting option for instructional tech: Sakai -- an open source, free version of Blackboard that UNC is dabbling with.
https://sakaipilot.unc.edu/

If you would like to play with it, log in and look at my INLS 513 class tab to get an idea of what it is.

name: hwinkler
PW: RobRoy8*
(PW will be changing in ~2 weeks)

~h

Emberdr

From the Distant Librarian blog:

Use embedr for video/screencast playlists

A couple of months ago my colleague Carmen pointed me to Embedr, "a free service that lets anyone create a custom playlist of videos from the top video sites on the web." Finally had a chance to take a look at it and quite like it. Basically you can feed it the URLs of videos across the following video sharing sites: Atom Films, Blip.TV, Bragster, Break.com, College Humor, Dailymotion, DivShare, Edublogs.tv, Metacafe, TeacherTube, Google Video, MySpace Video, Vimeo, YouTube, or you can build a smart playlist from YouTube only that will automatically update based on keywords, categories, regions, YouTube usernames, etc. That would be a really quick way to keep a current list of all your library's screencasts in one spot on your library's site! Here's an example I grabbed from the public area of the Embedr site:

http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2009/08/use-embedr-for-videoscreencast-playlists.html

screencasting comparison chart

Compare Tools

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18028735/Compare-Tools

Storyboarding Strategies for Effective ELearning

about 15 minute free video:

Bubbl.us

Havent tried this yet but it looks interesting:

What is it?

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Why use bubbl.us?

• Create colorful mind maps online
• Share and work with friends
• Embed your mind map in your blog or website
• Email and print your mind map
• Save your mind map as an image

http://bubbl.us/

Social Media in Learning Blog

A FREE resource for those who want a quick, easy-to-use, structured introduction to social media for learning as well as a practical guide to using social media tools.

http://janeknight.typepad.com/socialmedia/

Steps for Jing tutorials

- create in jing
- put screen res on lowest setting (minimize your browser window)
- close meebo, twitter apps (dont want pop ups during recording!)
- remove browser toolbars (want a clean screen)
- try to end your tutorial saying "ask us."
- save to screencast (can also save to your computer first then go to history in jing and click on share - it will upload to screencast)
- log into screencast, find your video, click on Show Details button, and click on the share tab.
- get embed code (and save local copy if you didn't at first)
- upload copy to Tutorials folder on library's web site
- embed screencast version to blogs/ webpages as needed
- create text/script version or link to text/web page with the same info (for accessibility purposes we should link to the text version wherever we post/embed the video)

(steps suggested by lynda & beth)

freeware

when you have some free time ... check out this article on 94 great freeware programs:

http://www.freewaremission.com/2009/06/94-great-freeware-programs-for-a-freeware-only-pc/

checklist for instructional support

Interesting checklist from NSCU libraries for instructional support:

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/instruction/checklist.html

Library Instructional Tech Mtg at WFU

here is the wiki page from our recently (june 8th) meeting w/ WFU & NSCU libraries, sharing instructional technologies:

http://nclibtech.pbworks.com/FrontPage