"How To Guide" for ClassBlogmeister

There is a thriving community of users of David Warlick's Landmarks ClassBlogmeister at Yahoo Groups. Once in the group you get a steady stream of information and help requests. I was practicing yesterday with 2 fabulous tools which link from the Tech Smith people( who brought us Camtasia), called Jing and Screencast ( in beta format at present). My school ClassBlogmeister needed updating - pupils needed to be placed in new classes and old classes needed to be deleted.
Jing and its sister storage site Screencast ( thank you to Screencast for being of great help during this project) gave an excellent home for my "How To" video screencast on Deleting Classes and Changing Pupils to New Classes
I think that the ease of use of Jing has certainly given me the confidence to produce a series of How To guides ( I hope that when these products eventually make it to market they are not priced too high - plea to Tech Smith !!:)

FLASHMEETING VIDEO WALK THROUGH

Today I will attempt to take you on a walk through of Flashmeeting - the (free) videoconferencing site run by KMI, The Open University and E2BN in the UK.

Lesson 1 - Research and About Flashmeeting.

Lesson 2 - Troubleshooting in Flashmeeting.


Lesson 3 - Public Replays and Statistics in Flashmeeting.


Lesson 4 - Flashmeeting Demonstration.


With a little help from:

The Open University Knowledge Media Institute (KMI)
The Open University Simple Network Applications (SNAPP)
The Centre for New Media - FlashVlog
The Making The News Project

** See post from Wednesday 25th July on Flashmeeting**

Removal of E-Mail Link and Next Blog Navbar

This blog post has given me the chance to try out Jing, using it to do a video walk-through of How To: remove the e-mail and next blog navbar, which scares teachers and administrators with good reason. The solution is a simple copy and paste using the file in the Box Gizmo in the right hand toolbar of this blog.
Follow this link to the video capture using Jing
and Screencast Storage
Next Blog Removal Code:


Big thanks to Allanah King from Appleby School, Nelson, New Zealand for the original code file :)

Another cool tool - thanks to Sharon Peters over at twitter for her tweet that I picked up at 1.35am ( the web never sleeps!!!) Jing which is a tools which will work on PC or Mac and can be used as a screen capture (like Skitch) - but also interestingly as a videon capture device (up to 5 minutes of video).

Thanks to Sharon for sharing this resource.