1. Showcasing Primary Source Gems in Your Collection Jesse Silva Librarian for Federal Documents, Legal Studies, Political Science and Public Policy University of California, Berkeley jsilva@library.berkeley.edu jsilva@library.berkeley.edu gtalk: jsilvaucb jsilva@library.berkeley.edu

2. Screen Casting—What is It?  Capture anything on your computer screen, including options for voice (more on this below)  Options to edit capture to add text boxes, manipulate the images, etc  Let Your Voice Be Heard: Pro and Con  508 Compliance Issues

3. What Software Do I Need?  Camtasia or Captivate Robust Software Robust Software Price & Time Investment Price & Time Investment  User needs free “Flash Player” plugin  Digital Camera (optional)  Jing or CamStudio (more on Jing later)

4. Screen-Casts in Practice: UCB’s Congressional Research Tutorials

5.  Brief History  More than just a tutorial site Example Tutorial: Finding Congressional Debates and Speeches from 1873-Present  Impact of the tutorials on student research

6. Get Started Right Away: JING  Free—just download and install  Always changing  Test-drive screen-casting “Is it right for me?” “Is it right for me?”  Great for on-the-fly screen casting

7. Resources  Captivate: http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/ http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/  Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp  CamStudio: http://camstudio.org/ http://camstudio.org/  Jing: http://jingproject.com/ http://jingproject.com/  UCB's Congressional Research Tutorials: http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/congresearch/ http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/congresearch/  My email: jsilva@library.berkeley.edu or chat with me via gtalk: jsilvaucb jsilva@library.berkeley.edu