SuHui Ho

Digital Services Librarian and Webmaster

UCSD Science & Engineering Library

Delivering Instruction via Web-based Videos

Are you looking for new ways to teach library patrons who increasingly interact with the library via its web pages? Do you have patrons in other parts of the country you would like to train? Camtasia Studio provides a viable solution. The software produces professional-looking videos to be published on websites or be distributed with CD-ROMs or email. Camtasia captures computer desktop activities such as mouse movements and key strokes, which makes it ideal to capture and teach the steps of database searching. The speaker will demonstrate how to create a short video, and discuss steps in planning and developing such a project.

Bio

Suhui Ho is the Digital Services Librarian and webmaster at the Science & Engineer Library, UCSD. She has 13 years of experience developing computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs. The CAI packages she developed include CAI kiosks developed for LAN use as well as web-based tutorials and streaming videos. In 2001, Suhui developed a “Teaching with Technology” training series for faculty, offering workshops on online pedagogy, Blackboard, multimedia on the web, chat software, Netmeeting, etc. She is interested in innovative use of technology to deliver traditional library services to users who access and use the library from their homes and work places. She is also interested in the difference of pedagogy between online instruction and face-to-face instruction. Suhui holds a MLIS and a MA degree and has over 15 years of teaching experience.

Links

Camtasia Studio

Camtasia video examples:

Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science Database

Setting Up an Alert in the Web of Science Database

SuHui's Seminar Presentation