a space for grace

 I have just had a great experience testing out Screenr – a free, screen capture Twitter app that allows you to add audio and create a short tutorial.

I watched the 1 minute tutorial on their site and was able to proceed without any problems.

Here is my demo masterpiece:

 

You can tweet your creation immediately, or save it for later and tweet it manually. The appliation provides you the code to embed it in your blog or website, has a button so you can upload it to YouTube or allows you to download it as an mp4 file.

One thing to remember is that everything created is public and goes on to the public feed. Before I knew this I thought – wouldn’t it be a great way to add some voice to photos and share pictures with distant friends, etc.

This was my experiment – since it’s now public I might as well share it here:

I can see Screenr being an extremely useful tool in providing “how-to” answers to patrons – how to log on to a database, how to create an RSS feed. It’s so fast to make a screen capture tutorial you can create and share it almost  instantly.

I think it would also be great for academic librarians providing service to distance students, or creating content to add to online courses.