If you have used them [the media sharing tools], let us know what you thought and how they enhanced your research, teaching or other work. Do you think they can help you find new audiences for your work? If you haven’t, explore them and let us know how you think you could use them. Please do upload samples of your videos, screen captures, beautiful data or podcasts – real examples are always welcome!
As suggested by '23 Things' I played around with some of the creative and sharing tools that are free for researchers. Screen-casts are an extremely useful tool for demonstrating, providing as excellent framework for tutorials in programming and IT. Academic video tutoring services such as Khan Academy use such screen capture services and I admit that Saif Khan's videos probably gave me a significant boost in marks for maths modules in both A-Levels and University.
Here is my own test in screen casting: Using the tool SIMION to simulate the path of secondary electrons emitted from a sample and attracted to several high voltage dynodes.
Another tool suggested was Google Public Data Explorer, a tool that makes large public data sets easy to explore, visualise and understand. An example below shows a comparison of the various levels of minimum wage across Europe. Unfortunately there is not much scientific data currently available on Google's database however hopefully this will change in the future.
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