Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Week 11: task 23: final reflection

Summarise your thoughts on the programme and where you would like to go from here.

Week 10: task 22: widgets

Investigate some of the widgets available on your blogsite. Use these to integrate some of your new resources into your blog.

Sunday, 7 July 2013

Week 9: tasks 19 - 21: presentations

Task 19: Explore Slideshare www.slideshare.net and post a favourite topic on your blog.

Task 20: Create a small Prezi http://prezi.com presentation and share it with your colleagues.

Task 21: Explore Jing www.techsmith.com/jing.html, Snaggit www.techsmith.com/snagit.html and Camtasia www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html. Use one of these to record a small screencast. Upload and share with colleagues.

Slideshare: I have been using this for a few years to view (no log in required) presentations shown at CPD events I've attended. Earlier this year I created my own account to upload CILIP President Phil Bradley's PowerPoint from his talk "Social Media and its Importance to Librarians" at an event I hosted in Southampton www.slideshare.net/bedfordsarah/arlg-southampton10513 that was too large (15MB) to upload and download easily to/from my CILIP ARLG Southern group's website www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/c-of-he/circles/southern/pages/events.aspx.

Prezi: I attended Prezi training at the College on 21st March 2012 with ILT's Pat and Nicky. In November/December 2012 I created a Prezi that I used in a job interview on the topic of "Effectively Marketing Library Services to a Diverse Range of Student Library Users" http://prezi.com/kudf37y87oh-/marketing-library-services-to-diverse-students/



Camtasia: College LRC staff used this from 2010 to 2012 to create screencasts with audio for using the online library catalogue: logging in; renewing; reserving items etc. Although these are on our T Drive, they were never made public by adding them to the LRC pages on mybpc. It it was easy to use to record and edit screencasts and their audio. However, due to license restrictions, Camtasia was only available on a couple of PCs at ILT, North Road which made it hard to access. ILT recently suggested www.screencast-o-matic.com to me as a free alternative, although screencasts recorded with it can't be edited post-recording.

Jing:

Snagit