New Possibilities: Using Jing to explain things to library users
Again and again the students have been asking me , through IM or phone calls or through email questions, how to find the full text of an article. Again and again, I tell them to start at the library home page, click on Find Journals, type in the title...on and on. Here is a Jing video(without sound) that could be used to demonstrate how to get to the full text of an article in the December 2004 issue of Journal of Drug Issues. Copy and past this link into your browser. http://screencast.com/t/rjxQix69jTF
Once I get good with this, I should be able to show students all sort of good things through quickly produced videos through Jing. I think I had better get aheold of some headphones and add sound to this mix.
I think you hit an important point here. The "again and again" point. If you remember to name your Jing Videos (I usually forget) you can reuse them. But even if you forget, it is less boring to make a video than type a bunch of text and the patron thinks your a mad genius because you made a customized video.
ReplyDeleteIt is the remembering to name it that has messed me up. Made a really great image and then forgot the change the name to something a bit more memoriable. :)
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