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Camtasia
- What Your See Is What There Is
Camtasia offers a simple, effective
means of providing instruction on the use of any computer-based
activity
Directions
With an intuitive interface recordings or “movies” can
be created within minutes of installing the software. Simply launch
Camtasia and click on the “Record” button; from this
point until the “Stop Recording” button is pressed,
everything that occurs on the screen of the computer is recorded.
The product is then saved – it can be scored on your local
hard drive for later playback, shared on a network for playback
by other users, or place on a web server for access from a Web page.
Features
| 1. |
Highly
effective mode of teaching – I have seen a reduction
of more than 75% in the time I spend teaching student how to
use various programs. |
| 2. |
Improve
production quality – students can replay the
“movies” as many times as they like. |
| 3. |
Rich
communication – when separated by space or time,
two or more people not only can describe something that is occurring
on their computer, but also can demonstrate actions or tasks
by emailing short movies to one another. |
| 4. |
A
useful feedback mechanism – using Camtasia, the
instructor could create a recording while editing a student’s
document, verbally explaining the thought process behind the
recommended changes. |
Note:
Original source by Gordon E.McCray of BellSouth mobility Technology
Faculty Fellow at Wake
Forest University. It first appeared in Syllabus
May 2001. Syllabus, for 12 years, has provided monthly
coverage on the use of high tech in higher education.
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