Techtorials
Here’s another technology tutorial website for your toolkit, either for staff or user training. We all need to know computer stuff, right? Right!
Techtorials offers video tutorials for three applications: Adobe Photoshop, Irfanview, and 7-Zip. It’s not being updated frequently (last video was uploaded 7 months ago), but what is already there is quite useful–particularly the Photoshop tutorials. Take a look!
I think it would be lovely if libraries who have developed technology tutorials could contribute what they’ve made to this and other collaborative wiki-style tutorial sites. There are many, and sharing what we have is what it’s all about. While I’m at it, I’ll put in a plug for the Library Instruction Wiki, another place that libraries should be sharing any training materials created in-house (Word documents, Powerpoints, wikis, blogs, videos, screencasts, podcasts, anything).
We reinvent the wheel so much. We don’t need to. We just need to convince administrators to let us post things we’ve created, for the betterment of libraries and users everywhere. Good goal, right? But you’d be surprised how often administrators say that those materials cannot be shared because they belong to the library/city/county/university/school and are the property of its funders/taxpayers, not the "everybody" of the Web. Oy, the politics make my head hurt.
(Techtorials was found many months ago on eContent (can you tell I’m wading through my backlog of "stuff to blog"?))
November 30th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
“But you’d be surprised how often administrators say that those materials cannot be shared…”
This is a good example of when it’s better to ask forgiveness rather than to ask for permission!
When I was a new to libraries I was surprised at how little sharing is done between library systems. Heck sometimes there’s little sharing between people in the same library. I’m hopeful with web 2.0 and learning 2.0 that more people will see the benefits of sharing.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:57 pm
it just looks too complicated to post this to that wiki.
this was for a presentation on simple screencasting and flash animation using Powerbullet. made by me. presented by me. but until I figure out how to edit a wiki without losing everything I type, it ain’t gettin shared by me….
http://www.pbclibrary.org/seflin/energize.htm