Working Connections Screencasting Lecture 2014

Camtasia, Captivate & Presenter

May 19 - 23, 2014Working Connections Institute

Jeff NewellSenior Director, Special ProjectsIllinois Community College Board(217) 558-2066jeff.newell@illinois.gov

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) 558-2066jeff.newell@illinois.gov