Collaborative Screencasts and Blog Recommendation

I've got an undersung blog to recommend to you: Brain_blog from the Library at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario.  The librarians there are using this blog more as a newsletter, and only publish to it once per month, with a single lengthy post, and that's why it's probably not as well-known as it should be.  But every month I get something useful out of this site. 

This month's post includes a link to a screencast put together by two people, one male, one female.  Huh, two good voices to listen to really break up the screencast, and I think it makes it more pleasant to listen to.  I'll betcha that's why they do that with the nightly news too, eh?  It's such a simple little change from what I've done, but I think it's a pretty good strategy.  They've also incorporated some nice background music where appropriate, something I've been meaning to do for a looong time.

So the other neat link I got from this month's post is to the US Colleges section of YouTube.  Is your school on the list?

Incidentally, you can also read about the genesis of Brain_blog in vol 52(2) of Feliciter, the magazine of the Canadian Library Association. (link to Academic Search Premier).


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