foolfillment: the blog

I’ve been pointed towards Camtasia 3 today by one of my lecturers, it’s a fantastic piece of kit. Let’s you capture your actions on screen then edit how they are viewed - size, zoom, pause -and then add audio commentary over the top, or other sounds. As far as I can see you can add in other video sources too. The potential of this sort of thing is huge for learning, it’s amazingly easy to do and much clearer than other methods of showing how to use a computer. I could record a clip of how to transfer photos from a camera card to a My Documents folder and then give the clip to my mum - she’d have no excuse again for coming to me asking how to do it. With the possible exception of her not being able to view the clip.

I’m going to put together a few clips of how to use the wiki tool that the uni’s VLE has built in so that my guinea pigs will be able to use it and help me with my final year project, it’ll take next to no time - fantastic! To do the same thing with power point, or putting together a booklet would take far longer and would not be nearly as clear.

I am pretty excited by this, you might be able to tell.

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