Create Flash-Based Tutorials, Without Turning on the Flash—Two Tools for Your Toolbox!

Submitted By: fjenny
Co-Presenter: Stephen T. Anderson Sr.
Scheduled For: Sunday @ 09:00 AM in Horry Georgetown Technical College
Session Type: Session - Presentation (includes keynote & business mtg)
Target Audience: faculty, Tablet PC schools, instructional designers

Abstract:

I had been searching for software which would allow me to create CD-based learning modules without the heavy learning curve often associated with such productions. The creation and distribution of a multimedia product via the web or on a CD can seem daunting to the inexperienced user. It is often assumed that the developer must have weeks/months of training and experience. It is also often assumed that you must utilize expensive and complicated software to produce and distribute such a product. It might never occur to you that a faculty member with very little technical experience might single-handedly tackle such a project.
This session will introduce users to Camtasia™. a piece of software that is:
• Inexpensive… Current Academic Price = $199, or around $110 upgrade from earlier version for the SnagIt/Camtasia bundle
• Easy for a non-computer-faculty to learn its “basics“
• Useful to those wishing to produce narrated Windows Media or Flash-based multimedia learning modules from “screen capturing” with no Flash training
• Useful for transforming PowerPoint slides into a narrated Windows Media or Flash video with no Flash training
• Capable of more advanced features once the user is more experienced
• Flexible in that ALL SORTS of “presentations” can be produced including “PR” materials, web-tour productions, lab-based-recordings, software demonstrations, etc.

This session will also introduce LectureScribe™, a piece of software which is:
• FREE!
• Easy for the Tablet PC owner to learn the basics
• Useful for anyone wishing to record a tablet PC pen-based tutorial and produce it as a Flash file with no Flash training
• More limited in scope than Camtasia, it specializes in the Tablet PC niche