At Code4Lib I saw Becky Yoose give a lightning talk on AutoIt, a cool tool that is supposedly faster than Macro Express (but much more complicated in terms of writing the programs).

So while that was great, what was even better for me was that she used Jing, a free screencasting tool from TechSmith.  It allows you to create screencasts (in .swf format).  You can save the screencasts to your computer (and make an endless supply) or upload them to http://www.screencast.com.  You get 2GB of space with a free screencast.com account but if you upgrade to the pro account you get 25GB.

I’m hoping to rework the library website and would love to have tutorials that use screencasting.  And since it’s so simple to use I think our librarians might actually like to utilize the tool.  I also think that some of the faculty technology liaisons will get some use out of it while working with faculty members.

Now I’m wondering if there is a Moodle block or plugin that plays .swf files…..