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: Tuesday @ 09:00 AM in Water Oaks III
Session Type: Session - Presentation (includes keynote & business mtg)

Abstract:

Introduction 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 Camtasia and Snagit are available for thirty-day trial periods from: http://www.techsmith.com Lecturescribe is available for free (thanks to Assistant Professor Brian C. Dean, Clemson) at: http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/lscribe/ For those who feel they MUST walk away with something TANGIBLE, there might even be some Techsmith marketing “give-aways” which will be distributed at the paper presentation, and very likely taste tests of my home-made beef jerky!