Today I’m going to blog about CamStudio and an assignment that we did to go along with it. CamStudio is an open source screen and audio capture software, it can be found at http://camstudio.org/. It’s a pretty need little software package that lets you record whatever you’re doing on screen and converts it to an .avi format and allows play back. You can also record your voice as well if you have a simple headset or regular desktop microphone. The assignment we did ties into an assignment we started last semester which was creating a TSTM wiki. The wiki has entries on all kinds of things ranging from learning methods to tutorials. This new assignment had us pick a topic in Open Office or from one of Google’s many apps and create a short video tutorial on how to use it. I choose to do mine on Google Maps, and the features that I discussed were how to set a default location and then navigate to a new location. I also showed them how to zoom in to get details and to switch to street view to actually get a glimpse of the actually location so they don’t drive past it. One thing that I left out but didn’t mean to was the print feature which gives you a printer friendly version to use. Overall I enjoyed the project and hope it turns out to be a successful despite all the problems some people have been encountering trying to upload and even record the video.
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I think Cam Studio is a great software application as well. It can have many different educational uses like you discussed about the Google apps project for instance. I would definitely recommend using Cam Studio to those who can't afford a premium software package.
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