Screencasting! I love screencasting. I've been wanting to learn how to do this for a long time. We have so many application where this would be helpful. Being a small library we don't always have the time to teach our patrons how to optimize the search capabilities of our online catalog. We don't have the time to walk patrons through the process of opening a search engine on our public computers, learning create an email or a facebook account. A screencast provides a visual tutorial for users. Most people are visual learners to some degree so walking a person through thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe process lowers anxiety and provides the ability for them to watch the processes numerous times until they are able to get through the procedure from start to finish. They can repeat the cast as many times as necessary. By inserting notes using Screencast-o-matic it can bookmark points in the screencast to help them readily locate the information they are interested in hearing and seeing once more.
I chose to use Screencast-o-matic to create a brief tutorial on how patrons can set limits within our online search catalog in order to increase the precision and recall of their search.
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