EDUCAUSE - Using Camtasia to Create Online Tutorials to Ease the Learning Curve

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What can you do with Camtasia?
  • Student/Employee orientation
  • Clarify concepts and procedures
  • Capture online lectures
  • Conduct tours of a web site or do "how to's" for applications

Camtasia gives you the ability to put a table of contents along the left side that allows users to skip to parts they want to. They can also stop and fast forward/rewind or click on links to go straight to other sources. Also allows light boxes (spotlight). Totally editable in case you mess up when speaking. Can also add evaluations/assessments such as small quizzes and then it tells you if you selected the appropriate answer. Closed captioning can be added in as well. Easy to modify.

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Questions about degradation of sound in some players, computers (mac/pc) etc.

Interesting and I may try the 30-day trial. We already use Jing (though that's very bare-boned)... but there's a Jing Pro now. Brad also has ScreenFlow which is supposed to be pretty good.  Will have to do some playing around and comparisons.

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