I am so glad THING 17 has chosen not to appear on the screen as yet! THING 18 took sufficient toll on our energy reserves. While this THING loomed rather threateningly, once my Tech Thursday buddy, Pat, and I got down to business, it proved to be more fun than bluster.
For our screencast, we chose the free screencast-o-matic software, ignored the truly incomprehensible video that comes with the software and stuck with Book Gryphon's advice. We had the brilliant thought that we would attempt something that might actually be of some use to our library, so we developed a map tracing possible driving routes.
I slugged it out for the Northerners and Pat chose the Southern route. After some handgrabber routing practice, we donned our headsets and confidently took the controls. What we got was a nice demonstration of the route minus the sound. Which was probably a good thing. We also learned how actors feel when they giggle their way through a series of hilarious but ultimately, from a production standpoint at least, unsuccessful outtakes. A good time was had by all.
Next week we will make an appointment with our computer lab person to figure out why the sound portion eluded us.
As far as Podcasts, I skimmed some of the instructional notes and decided that would be an entirely different THING for me to attempt after these THINGS are completed. One step at a time!
laura
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