working connections screencasting lecture 2014
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Camtasia, Captivate & Presenter
May 19 - 23, 2014Working Connections Institute
Jeff NewellSenior Director, Special ProjectsIllinois Community College Board(217) [email protected]
Name
College or organization
Discipline/courses or work you do
Are you PC or Mac?
What LMS do you use?
What are you hoping to get out of the class,
or do with screencasting following this class?
Class Introductions
1. Participants will have an understanding of screencasting and related software◦ What screencasting is
◦ Instructional uses
◦ Available options for creating and distributing
2. Participants will be able to create and distribute screencasts using multiple options.◦ Creation
◦ Hosting & distribution
Goals & Objectives
http://wcilscreencasting.pbworks.com/
Days 1 & 2: Camtasia
Days 3 & 4: Captivate
Day 5: Presenter
Along the way: Play Time & Extras
Agenda for week
Introduction to Screencasting
A screencast is a digital movie centered around action on a computer screen.
Screenshot + Broadcast = Screencast Can include: narration, music, other sounds,
graphics, photos, highlights, callouts, and interactive elements.
Used largely for demonstrations, tutorials and presentations
Capabilities of software today extend to real video editing capabilities
What is a screencast?
Camtasia (TechSmith)http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html
Captivate (Adobe)http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html
Presenter (Adobe)http://www.adobe.com/products/presenter.html
Proprietary products
Product costs
Product Public Education
SnagIt $49.95 $29.95
Camtasia Studio $299 $179
Captivate $899 $299
Presenter $499 $499
Available for PC and Mac
Modest/Typical requirements
Headset or microphone & speakers
Hardware Needs
Video editing for vodcasts & sound for podcasts GarageBand Movie Maker / Windows Live Movie Maker
◦ Screen captures & simple editing PhotoStory 3 iMovie
◦ Screen captures editing and more Podcasts: Audacity is free audio recording tool
◦ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Vodcasts: QuickTime Pro is $29.95 webcam recording
tool◦ http://www.apple.com/quicktime/extending/
Other approaches
Tutorials◦ Tutorials, software demonstrations, website
tutorials discussions◦ Processes
Presentations◦ PowerPoint◦ Lectures◦ Creative ideas
Concepts◦ Finding clever ways to explain difficult concepts
like the In Plain English videos
Screencasting in education
Knowledge Capture◦ Documenting procedures
Assessment◦ Students can do this (free tools)—we can assess
learned processes and knowledge Feedback
◦ Short videos with Jing
Screencasting in education
Chunk content in segments under 10 minutes Keep content focused on specific subject to
increase re-usability Picture-in-picture Include other media Step-by-step instruction Supplemental knowledge Background knowledge Interactivity / engagement Quiz on actions & steps
Other thoughts
Screencasts: Web-based availability of videos
CD-based videos Podcast/Vodcast: auto-delivery of exported
instruction in audio or video formats Learning Management Systems For face-to-face or online classes
Delivery
Captivate allows you to create application simulations and PowerPoint presentations with interactive capabilities such as branching scenarios, and quizzes.
Camtasia records video and audio from computer screens and cameras, and imports media (video and audio) to edit and create video and audio files.
They both use features to highlight the action, add interactivity, quizzing, and include accessibility.
What does Camtasia & Captivate do?
Presenter is an Add-In to PowerPoint that shows up in its own ribbon & tab. It allows you to record audio and video, sync it to slides, add interactivity and quizzing.
What does Presenter do?
Camtasia’s own tutorials http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial.html
Examples
NTSC aspect ratio is 4:3 (what we’ve switched from)
HD/widescreen is 16:9 (what we’ve switched to)
◦ 1080p (or i): 1920 x 1080
◦ 720p: 1280 x 720
16:9 now common for YouTube use, MP4 file type at various resolutions
320 x 240 is about 1/10th of desktop size
Record at larger, scalable size to allow for zooming
Screen Aspect Ratios
Camtasia & Captivate offer common/current record presets
Presenter is based off PPT screen resolutions
Some examples of common aspect ratios.
Preserve aspect ratio for best output clarity on pans and zooms
Screen Aspect Ratios
16:9 640 x 360960 x 5401024 x 5761280 x 7201600 x 9001920 x 1080
Mac Users can download Flip4Mac WMV Player to add Windows Media components to QuickTime. ($5.95)
http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac/overview.htm
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-media-components-quicktime
Flip4Mac
Questions
Jeff NewellSenior Director, Special ProjectsIllinois Community College Board(217) [email protected]