North Carolina Association for Educational Communications and Technology

“Take It to the Net”March 13, 2007

Ernie J. CoxMedia Specialist

St. Timothy’s School, Raleigh N.C.

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Screencasting – definitions

“A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, often containing audio narration”

-- Wikipedia

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Screencasting – definitions

“A screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action.”

“A screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action.”

Jon Udell Infoworld Test CenterO’Reilly advisor

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Screencasting – definitions

“A screencast may also contain text captioning and impeded user controls and can be delivered in a variety of formats”

“A screencast may also contain text captioning and impeded user controls and can be delivered in a variety of formats”

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Screencasting – some examples

Calgary Public Libraryhttp://calgarypubliclibrary.com/library/tutorials.htm

University of Montanahttp://www.lib.montana.edu/instruct/tutorials/locating/locating.html

Hypergenehttp://www.youtube.com/hypergene

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Why Screencast?

Anytime, anywhere tutorials (as many times as needed)

Instruction and support for visual and auditory learning styles

Easy to revise and redistribute (be gone step by step paper guide)

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The screencasting landscape

Windows Media Encoder

Camtasia Studio

Snapz Pro X (Mac)

BB FlashBack

Macromedia Captivate

Wink

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Wink 2.0 (for Windows)Features include.. Multiple output formats – Flash, HTML,PDF

Audio narrations – recording & editing

Price – free(ware)

Annotation - highlighting & text

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Wink 2.0 tour

•User Interface

•Sample Project

•Viewing output

Let’s take a look at the program…

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Building a Knowledge Base

•Wink screencast tutorials

•Instructional documents

•User Ratings and Feedback

*using H2 Help Desk, more info at http://www.heathcosoft.com/h2desk/

Further reading & Examples

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/linky.swf

http://pesdtech.wikispaces.com/screencasts

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Full presentation available at:

http://erniec.edublogs.org/