Week 7 – Podcasts & online hosted video

By zombrarian

PodCasts

ADAM CURRY!!! Totally did not know he was an early adopter of podcasting. Other bloggers apparently were.

DSC Podcast of Adam Curry can answer all your questions, also toilet questions !
Odeo – things that caught my interest

medical minute from ABC news health gives 60 second podcasts on medical topics

del.icio.us mashups - Everything from del.icio.us/tag/ system:media:audio+mashup

Online hosted video – is it good enough?

I am one of those people that already have youtube videos floating around the web. I’ve also made online tutorials for library services using Camtasia software ( a Techsmith product) which are available on our website. Our off-campus access to online resources tutorial is very useful & I think people use it alot. The discussion for the midweek question this week was interesting. Some users prefer to simply look at a webpage or pdf file – they don’t have the patience to listen to a podcast or watch a video. However, I think that videos definitely work for user education , especially on navigating webpages or using online resources. The trick is to keep them short (under 2 minutes), both for downloading issues and attention spans.

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