A new social software site for me is Jing. We haven't covered it yet, sorry Steve to jump the gun, but I love this site. I heard about it from Steve at the NJLA conference in April. It's a site where you can create a screencast and record your voice. I had never used it before, but it looked like something I wanted to use on another project for class. It took me less than an hour to figure out how to use it and create a small screencast for my website. It's just like Camtasia, but free! Of course there are time limitations, but for basic things, it's great.
In the future, I'll use it for my website at work. I can create simple screencasts showing patrons how to renew books, place holds, and eventually demonstrate how to use Word, PP, or other computer basics. I'll also use it as a training session for new employees, this way they can watch it before they come to work, and hopefully to be better prepared. Additionally, it be used to show how to access new databases, or our new catalog, etc.
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It's calming my nerves to know that this didn't take that long to learn. I have never done screencasting or podcasting before, so I had some mild trepidations about that part of the class.
Jing is a new concept for me also; from your informative links I understand it is a video that one person can share with others, and, like you write, it can be used to teach all kinds of practical skills, also in libraries. I will be sure to check further into it later. Thanks!
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