After a long absence, I'm back on the cpd23 bandwagon, rushing to complete in time for the 30th November certificate deadline. I've done some of this Thing before: I made a screencast about using the GIMP image-editing programme last year.
I've taken a particularly special collections angle on the Thing this time round, and considered the value of audio and video for promoting understanding of rare books, manuscripts and other interesting holdings. This is something that, for example, the Bodleian Library does with its exhibitions, making curator videos about star exhibits and themes.
I've also recently rediscovered Gresham College, which gives public lectures on a wide range of themes. They do a really good job of having streaming and downloadable video and audio, and transcriptions, accessible on their website. See, for example, Dr Peter Ross' lecture 'The Historical Collections of the Guildhall Library'.
Inspired by these, I've put together a short video about medieval manuscript calendars. I'm not a specialist medievalist, so if you find any errors please do let me know! I've made it available in lots of different formats, listed below. Please let me know if any don't work properly.
You can view the whole manuscript I use as an example--St Gallen MS Cod. Sang. 402--via the e-codices Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland.
And I've collected together other examples of manuscript calendar pages over here on Pinterest.
Download mp4 video here
Watch YouTube video:
Download mp3 audio here
Listen to mp3 audio:
Transcription (download pdf here):
Showing posts with label screencasting. Show all posts
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Sunday, 11 November 2012
Saturday, 9 July 2011
#cam23, Things 5 and 6: screenshots and -casting
Thing 5
When I'm making screenshots I usually use the tried-and-tested method of hitting 'printscreen' and then editing the image in whatever image software I have handy. But LightShot certainly looks useful, and I've bookmarked it for further reference.
Thing 6
'Learn more about screencasting' has been on my to-do list since before Christmas, so many thanks to cam23 for giving me the impetus to get on with it. I found screencast-o-matic very easy to use, and it didn't have any hilarious but alarming consequences such as the Wallace-and-Gromit-style name might imply! My only complaint would be that it made the computer a little slow to run, but that's probably an old PC issue as much as anything.
In order to get a little practice, I've ticked another thing off my to-do list, one that I added around the time of the first Cambridge Library TeachMeet, in September last year. That evening someone asked me how I'd made the camlibtm logo, and suggested I blog about it. I never got round to it, but here, at long last, is a tutorial on how to create that sort of logo. The tutorial uses GIMP; the original logo was actually created in Photoshop, but the principles are the same.
I didn't script this in advance - I just had a practice run-though in GIMP to check I knew what I wanted to do, and a brief trial with screencast-o-matic to check it worked the way I expected. So please forgive the rough edges!
When I'm making screenshots I usually use the tried-and-tested method of hitting 'printscreen' and then editing the image in whatever image software I have handy. But LightShot certainly looks useful, and I've bookmarked it for further reference.
Thing 6
'Learn more about screencasting' has been on my to-do list since before Christmas, so many thanks to cam23 for giving me the impetus to get on with it. I found screencast-o-matic very easy to use, and it didn't have any hilarious but alarming consequences such as the Wallace-and-Gromit-style name might imply! My only complaint would be that it made the computer a little slow to run, but that's probably an old PC issue as much as anything.
In order to get a little practice, I've ticked another thing off my to-do list, one that I added around the time of the first Cambridge Library TeachMeet, in September last year. That evening someone asked me how I'd made the camlibtm logo, and suggested I blog about it. I never got round to it, but here, at long last, is a tutorial on how to create that sort of logo. The tutorial uses GIMP; the original logo was actually created in Photoshop, but the principles are the same.
I didn't script this in advance - I just had a practice run-though in GIMP to check I knew what I wanted to do, and a brief trial with screencast-o-matic to check it worked the way I expected. So please forgive the rough edges!
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