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Category Archives: screencasting
Blackboard Tips #1 – Adding an Assignment to a Course
This is the first of a planned short series of screencasts that I am creating to help my colleagues at Swansea and further afield do more with Blackboard. One thing we ask staff to do is provide a receipt for … Continue reading
Jing Zing!
jing-test-cmdOriginally uploaded by Chris P Jobling I am grateful to OUseful.info for the post that lead me to try out a new Screencasting tool from TechSmith called Jing. Made by the same company that makes SnagIt (an indispensable screen caspture … Continue reading
Crunchy Demos on ShowMeDo
André Roberge has created three screencasts on the use of Crunchy. Crunchy is an interactive Python interpretor that runs inside the Firefox browser and can be used to create interactive Python tutorials, library documentation, demos and tests. The principle is … Continue reading
The Blackboard Quest
The Swansea Learning Lab had planned that tomorrow there would be a “lunch and learn” E-Learning Showcase at which I was going to present the “Blackboard Quest”. Unfortunately, due to lack of interest, this session has been postponed. However, as … Continue reading
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Roumen on recording high quality screencasts
Roumen Strobl is a Netbeans “evangelist” who works for Sun in Prague. He produces the Netbeans Podcast and numerous screencast demos of the Netbeans IDE. In this very useful article he explains how he creates screencasts (like this one) and … Continue reading






