It should be pointed out that the participants get both Camtasia and Snagit through their registration to the Academy - they should be ready to go!
Screencast O'Matic is a place to start: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ to capture a powerpoint or other screen shot with voice over. However there is a Java plug-in that you need, but very simple to use once I had the plug-in. There is no editing feature so you are live - not a bad place start - oh yeah and it's free.
Another free one is ScreenR http://www.screenr.com/ - looks simpler to use.
Snagit is another screen capture tool from TechSmith; you can get a 30 day trial at http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagit/ This has more features and editing capability, and I love the way you can take a screen shot, add some captions and automatically add it to a powerpoint.
So the question is what content or processes lend themselves to video recordings? One idea is to use the recordings for some lower level procedural skill demonstrations. For example - if kids need to convert measurements for the lesson; the steps could be made into a video they could watch ahead (or at any time). Abstract concepts are most likely a bad idea for videos - Lenny elicited a good quote: "don't use video as a hurdle to the benchmark - use it as a step to the first hurdle." Brilliant.
Now for the main event - Camtasia. There are so many features - I think it will take some time to play with everything. But I can see that we can use this to provide some upfront training/information to various groups. We kicked around the idea of linking videos to our Google Tools training and potentially setting up some modules for people to complete.
The great thing about today is that we had a chance to really work with the tools and put some demo things together. Oh and spending the day with my wife (see picture below) priceless!
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| Cindy working on her projects! |
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