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)