Hello ITAC blog readers, my name is James Behnke. I have been working with the Psychology Department since last November as their IT Liaison and will be a regular weekly contributor to this blog.

Having worked as a teacher, technical trainer, and I.T. Administrator for a school district, I am keenly aware of how important it is to foster information technology literacy an educational institution. In my efforts to assist members of the psychology department with their utilization of information technology resources, I’ve recently gotten into the habit of creating brief, Web-based multimedia tutorials commonly referred to as “screencasts”. These screencasts, such as the one below, demonstrate the technical operations and software features needed to accomplish discrete, useful tasks using various computer applications.

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Going forward, I will be contributing more screencasts to this blog on a variety of topics that I hope will be of interest to members of the Fordham community and serve to raise awareness of the many useful information technology resources available to them.

I am hopeful that these posts will generate a lot of user feedback that will enable me to better target the needs of readers. If you have any questions or suggestions, I can be contacted by email at behnke@fordham.edu.

For the curious and those who want to explore creating their own screencast software demonstrations, the application that I use for creating screencasts is Jing. It is free and very easy to use.