Screen Capture: All your lectures are belong to us!*

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eamon.costello@dcu.ie

Publish or Perish: Simple workflows

Take-home message

Thomas Smillie (1890) http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2422570279/

With Thanks to…

Oscail – Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University

National Digital Learning Repository

Learning Innovation Unit (LIU ), Dublin City University

Screen Capture/Casting = computer screen + audio• capture v casting• Live v Synchronous• Off-with-their-heads: computer screen

only:– PowerPoint (see death-by)– Software: Program walkthroughs– Website/VLE training– Whiteboard:

• pen input e.g. Mathematics

– Anything else…

Kaybeenic (2009) http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayveeinc/4108654512/

Examples: Webpage walkthrough

Examples: Programming

Examples: Maths with pen input

Examples: With Powerpoint

From JK to D & T type flip-flops.avi

Didactic medium

• Chalk and Talk• Proposed Solutions:

– Chunking (Gobet, 2005)– Video length (Bandwidth and Boredom)– Adding interactivity

• Quizzes, • “click here if you are awake/alive”

My Camtasia Tips

• http://www.relearn.ie/2008/03/19/top-tips-for-creating-screencasts-with-camtasia/ Costello (2008)

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9 tips for Camtasia

1. Don’t be seduced by post-production..

Teaching/Instruction

Capture

Produce/EditDeploy

More Tips

2. Don’t strive for perfection (publish or perish)

3. Record at a low resolution

4. Avoid pan and zoom

5. Don’t aim for ipod/mobile phone

More Tips

6. Batch publish

7. The ten minute rule

8. Publish to Flash.9. Don’t bother with the freebies

Software

• Synchronous/Live classroom systems with “archive” feature

• Jing – free but limited• Adobe Captivate• Camtasia (FTW)• Screenr (web-based)• Linux: recordmydesktop

Hardware

• All you need:– Computer– Wired headset or built-in laptop mic

• All you can eat:– Tablet PC (NOT an iPad!)– Usb pen (?)– Bluetooth or DECTS headset– Mobile projector (pico projector)

Camtasia• Inexpensive• Does the basics well

LOOK AWAY NOW: HERE COMES THE TECHNICAL BIT!Camasia file-types: Camproj and Camrec

Camrec really just a wrapper for AVI Tip: Right-click camrec file >> click extract TA-DA! You have an AVIWhy is that important? Because Google Video can render the video for you

Google Apps for Education

Video in a Web 2.0 World• Google Video (in Google Apps for Education)• Tagging

– Allows better organization of content – Allows for custom menus– But no RSS yet :-(

• Could allow automated updated content alerts for students

• More learner control– Speed of playback– Download content– Comment , Tag and Rate

Conclusions

• Don’t post-produce & don’t worry about you presentation style: Just be yourself

• Camrec >> AVI >> Google Video for Education >> MP4

• Tags to organise video • Google Apps + Moodle + Camtasia =

eLearning ecosystem

References• Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp• Gobet (2005) Chunking models of expertise: Implications for education ,

Applied Cognitive Psychology• Google Apps for Education:

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html • Costello (2008) Top Tips For Creating Camtasia Screencasts:

http://www.relearn.ie/2008/03/19/top-tips-for-creating-screencasts-with-camtasia/

• Costello (forthcoming) Educational video in the flexible curriculum: an asynchronous model of instructional video for remote learners,3rd International Symposium for Engineering Education , UCC, 1-2 July, 2010

• Costello (2009) Teaching and participatory media All Ireland Society for Education, AISHE-C, annual conference, NUI Maynooth, August 27

• An example of Screenr by Damian Raftery: http://screenr.com/user/damienraftery/2