Roumen on recording high quality screencasts

[Roumen Strobl](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/) is a Netbeans “evangelist” who works for Sun in Prague. He produces the [Netbeans Podcast](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/category/Podcasts) and numerous screencast demos of the [Netbeans IDE](http://www.netbeans.org). In this very [useful article](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/recording_high_quality_demos_screencasts) he explains how he creates screencasts (like [this one](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/why_netbeans)) and it’s well worth reading to find out how a professional does it! Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).

June 21, 2007 · 1 min

Teacher's tip #1: tag your bookmarks with a module code

If you want to share URLs with your students, tag your del.icio.us bookmarks with a module code. If you publish the link to the tag, your students will get up-to-date access to your links and it’s easy for you to add more. I find it much more more flexible and convenient than the External links feature in Blackboard! You can even create an RSS feed for your links! Here’s one I made earlier: del....

June 21, 2007 · 1 min

A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 3)

In my previous article in this series, I described how I use the All Items mode in Google Reader to efficiently wade through a large number of articles from my subscribed-to RSS feeds. In this article I show you how I mark, bookmark and occasionally blog about interesting items that I find in my daily news. The underlying justification for this process is an attempt to supplement my memory with minimum effort!...

June 21, 2007 · 5 min

A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 2)

This is Part 2 in a planned series of essays on living life online. Part 1 is here. The whole series is tagged mylifeonline for ease of access. Reading the News I read the news today, oh boy – John Lennon In the previous article I showed you my Firefox start up page. In this article I’m going to drill down into my iGoogle portal concentrating on a typical news reading session....

June 21, 2007 · 3 min

101 Teaching Resources

Just announced on the [Efficient Academic Google group](http://groups.google.com/group/The-Efficient-Academic/browse_thread/thread/87d95a64a0c4b8b3/1a89504865a94f33?#1a89504865a94f33) is this “Link Blog” on the [101 Best Teaching Resources](http://101teachingresources.blogspot.com/). An interesting source of ideas and worth keeping an RSS feed on. Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).

June 19, 2007 · 1 min