Posts with keyword: screencasts

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Blogs in Plain English

Mon Dec 10 16:02:00 2007

Ever wanted to explain to your mom what a blog is? Here's a nifty little screen cast from Lee and Sachi LeFever at the CommonCraft show that does just that: Last week I posted a screencast on OpenID that has garnered some good comments from friends and even family ("oh, now I get it!"). I'm a big fan of this new medium. I've used it to augment classroom instruction in CS330. I want to try some of these "whiteboard" type screencasts for fun.
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Understanding OpenID

Wed Dec 5 10:48:00 2007

Here's a screencast that Dan Lullich sent me showing how OpenID works using a whiteboard cartoon. Very clever! Dan was also my guest on the Technometria podcast this week. We talked about reputation--go figure.
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YouTube For eGovernment

Thu Jan 11 10:59:00 2007

David Stephenson's arguing that YouTube will prove itself a critical tool for emergency management. Government agencies could already make much better use of video, podcasts, and screencasts than they do. Once they catch onto their importance, they'll need to realize that content aggregators like YouTube are a much better alternative than burying these services on some agency Web server.
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Using Screencasts to Augment Instruction

Thu Jan 19 11:06:00 2006

Ever since I saw what Jon Udell was doing with screencasts, I've wanted to use them to augment some of my courses. If you're not familiar with the term, a screencast is a short video that, usually, shows th screen of a computer and has a narrative explaining what's going on. I think screencasts have a lot to offer instruction. In my CS330 class, we use Scheme. Learning Scheme is something the students have to do to complete the course, but it's not really what the course is about. Screencasts provide an excellent medium for introducing students to things
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