Mini-break ::

I may still be in the thrall of one of the year's major marking crises, (Though by the number of meetings people seem to hope/expect I'll attend you would not think so!) but I've decided to take most of today "off". Barbara is at the NZ Christian Counsellors Association exec. all day, so after a bit of necessary tidying and cleaning I'm playing with a new toy...

The toy is CamStudio an Open Source screencasting application. CamStudio records either a selected area or your whole screen along with either the sound output from the PC or input from a mic. It then makes an AVI file which it will convert (in a separate module) into a Flash video. It is neat and works well, except:

• the HTML files it creates do not play in Firefox :( so one has to make them manually
• it tends to create rectangular artifacts in the video

I've been making short intros to how people navigate the Hypertext Bible Commentary material. But I've used Windows Movie Maker to convert the AVIs to WMF as well so people have a choice.

Try them and see:

How to move through the Bible text and comment [Windows Media] [Flash]

Navigating to Bible Dictionary material [Windows Media] [Flash]

The main Menu and Word studies [Windows Media] [Flash]

PS: Continuing the theme, I've also completed the Just So Stories by reading the last one "The Butterfly that Stamped" for my children's bedtime story collection.
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