Tim suggested that I tell a little more about Camtasia. I have used it to capture myself (and a small puppet) for short intros to just explain some minor points. You can save in various video formats.
You can edit small clips together with transitions (fade to black or various effects to dress up the change). You can make title pages after making the clips and you can go in and add callouts. These are arrows or post-it notes with comments about the video. They fade in for a few seconds and then go away. What I have done the most of is voice-overs for PowerPoints. You can capture the PowerPoint window as you advance slides and talk as you go. I used to teach an online intro class so I took many of my regular class PowerPoints and did voice-overs making them a lot like a lecture. I didn't see any need for them to see my face so I didn't do the picture in picture. I was told that it added a lot to the file size, too. There are some quiz and survey functions that I never tried. There is a group on campus that gets together and self-educates on online class technology stuff. It was helpful at first to go through some of the basics with a group all figuring out the same things, but once I got through the process of producing a finished product I decided that it wasn't hard to use. While I'm on the topic of teaching technology I was wondering if any Tipsters had gone on to their Second Life. That's not joining the Choir Invisible but joining the world virtual of Second Life. I started setting up an illusion display when I thought that I'd still be teaching online. Since then I have moved to doing memory studies there. My first will be a poster at APS this summer. I'm going to start two more soon. I'm trying to force my grad research methods class to do some practice experiments that way. My avatar name is at the bottom of my signature. If any of you are closet avatars you can feel free to IM me and to drop by the ULM island. -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
