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Working Connections Screencasting Lecture 2014
1. May 19 - 23, 2014
Working Connections Institute
Jeff Newell
Senior Director, Special Projects
Illinois Community College Board
(217) 558-2066
jeff.newell@illinois.gov
2. 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?
3. 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
6. 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
9. Available for PC and Mac
Modest/Typical requirements
Headset or microphone & speakers
10. 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/
11. 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
12. Knowledge Capture
◦ Documenting procedures
Assessment
◦ Students can do this (free tools)—we can assess
learned processes and knowledge
Feedback
◦ Short videos with Jing
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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.
16. 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.
18. 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
19. 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
16:9
640 x 360
960 x 540
1024 x 576
1280 x 720
1600 x 900
1920 x 1080
20. 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
21. Jeff Newell
Senior Director, Special Projects
Illinois Community College Board
(217) 558-2066
jeff.newell@illinois.gov
Hinweis der Redaktion
Introduce myself & the course
Class introduce themselves
Extras are some fun additional things and a chance for us to take a break from our work and look at some other useful tools.Our class is small which might mean we zip through the work a lot faster. I’ll have to gauge our course speed as we go and we’ll sort it all out as we go. If there are things you’re interested in spending some time on from the extras, or maybe something else, let me know.If you have real-life projects you want to work on in the class, it will be a great opportunity for you to do them.
These are the products we will cover in class. The wiki has other free products that you can try. There are other products available as well, that are proprietary and are lower in cost.
SnagIt & Camtasia’s pricing has stayed stable. Captivate’s has increased $100 since version 5.I can’t find that Presenter’s pricing varies for education, but you would think it would.Adobe has $19.99 monthly subscriptions to their products. They also have a $29.99 Creative Cloud subscription, but it doesn’t include Captivate or Presenter. It’s good for other image, animation, and web work.Mark DuBois (here at Institute) is a good person to talk to about Adobe products.
GarageBandMovieMakerScreen captures & simple editingSnagIt (PC)Vista - Snipping ToolWindows - Print Screen (screen) or Alt+Print Screen (window)PhotoStory 3iMovieScreen captures editing and moreGrab (in Utilities)Command+Shift+3 (screen) or 4 (region of screen)Podcasts: Audacity is free audio recording toolhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/A tutorial (Podcasting 101 tutorial.pdf) can be found at http://www.ilcco.net/ILCCO/index.cfm?page=ResourcesVodcasts: QuickTime Pro is $29.95 webcam recording toolhttp://www.apple.com/quicktime/Can do very basic editingQuickTime Player is free
Camtasia records video and audio from computer screens and cameras, and imports media (video and audio) to edit and create video and audio files.Records video that captures action on computer screensRecords audioUses special features to enhance visual information for better comprehensionCallouts, highlights, linksProvides for interactivity with the viewer – quizzes & surveysExports movies for use on computers, portable media players, and on the web
This was free until recently. Insert frowny face emoticon! Nice piece of software allowing WMV playback on Macs. Worth buying if you’re a Mac person. Might be worth a web search to see if it can still be found for free.