Diane Gierisch gave a demonstration of Camtasia, a very easy to use screen-capturing application. Camtasia Studio is a product by TechSmith and is available from their website (www.techsmith.com/) for a free 30 day trial. VNC (Virtual Computing Network) the application used to capture Mac OSX desktops. It is available at www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ and comes in a variety of flavors, Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc.
David Cox gave a report on NAB. As soon as his report is finished, a link to it it will be included here.
Quinn Stewart showed and talked about the creation of the Photojournalism and the American Presidency videos. If you haven't seen this site, take a look (http://www.cah.utexas.edu/photojournalism/sneakpreview.php).
There will be a free multimedia accessibility workshop on May 28 and 29. For information about the courses being offerred and to register, go to http://www.knowbility.org/air-university/.
We will have another round of creating videos for the examples section of the Web Video Guidelines. Quinn Stewart will get a copy of the videos to you for this shoot-out.
For information on UT's Flash Users Group, contact Andy Greer (andy.greer@austin.utexas.edu). For information on UT's PHP Users Group, contact Shirley Cohen (s.cohen@mail.utexas.edu), Anne Neumann (annen@mail.utexas.edu) or PJ Abrams (pja@austin.utexas.edu). For information on UT's Java Interest Group (JIG), contact Jen Reynolds (jen.reynolds@austin.utexas.edu).
Our next meeting will be 1:30 pm, Wednesday, May 21, in PCL 4.102. Peter Keane (from the Library Instruction and Information Literacy Office in UGL) and Susan Rittereiser (from Digital Library Services) will talk about and show some SMIL presentations they have done for the General Libraries and Aaron Choate (from Digital Library Services) will talk about EReserves.