Category: Tutorials
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Using Google Analytics to track screencast usage
Paul Betty of Regis University offered the following link on the OFFCAMP listserve earlier today. Using Google Analytics to track screencast usage. In his screencast he covers how to embed a javascript call in Adobe Captivate, Qarbon ViewletBuilder, and Camtasia Studio, which will then allow Google Analytics to track pretty much whatever you might want…
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Camtasia Studio 6 released
Oh man, now I'm two versions behind since I'm still on Win2K here at the office (system requirements) :-( Techsmith has released Camtasia Studio 6, their most excellent screencasting tool (still only for Windows). Lots of new features detailed on their site. The most useful one for me would be the independent audio & video…
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Automated Lecture Capture – Camtasia Relay
Techsmith has launched a new product that automates the process of capturing and distributing lectures. Camtasia Relay makes use of desktop software (Mac or PC) and a back-end server that handles the encoding and redistribution. Some good background information in the Techsmith Education Newsletter, where I learned of the product. Apparently a lecture can be…
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Cuecast.com – free online teleprompter
Betsy Weber on the Techsmith Visual Lounge Blog posts about Cueprompter.com, a website that allows you to type or paste in a whack of text, and then scrolls it back at you just as a teleprompter would. She suggests it would work well for screencasting, but I think that’s only true if you have a…
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Screencast.com now has Commenting
Just like YouTube, Screencast.com now allows viewers to leave comments below screencasts hosted on that site. This includes stuff created in Jing. More details are at the Screencast.com blog. While YouTube is more popular and free, you’ll get much better video quality out of the screencasts you post on Screencast.com, and you can still embed…
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Jing has a Birthday, you get the gifts.
Jing is now a year old, and Techsmith is officially adopting it as a product (it used to be a project). In addition, the free Screencast.com account that comes with Jing (also free) has been upped to 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of transfer. The Jing Blog suggests that there will be some…
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Screencast.com v. 1.0
I’d forgotten that all this time Techsmith’s screencast-hosting service, Screencast.com, has been a beta product. I just received the following email indicating that they’re going official with version 1.0: Say hello to Screencast.com 1.0! Our hosting service is all grown up. And we’re making it official by moving Screencast.com out of beta and into version…
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OSX Screencasting Faceoff
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a good roundup of free through expensive screencasting applications for OSX (Mac). Taking the top spot for freebies is Jing. Screenflick gets the nod for the “casual user”, and ScreenFlow is the best overall. I love Jing for quick and dirty, and I own iShowU and SnapZ Pro for longer…
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Boolify
Nothing earthshattering, but an Boolify is interesting little site that might help some conceptualize the concept of boolean operators. Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search,…