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Camstasia
Posted by: Diddly | January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Well the doctor says my baby girl will be born on the 6th of February. My wife is having contractions, but other than that life proceeds normally for us. This week I have been learning how to use Camstasia video editing software. Camstasia is a very versatile and simple to use software that lets you record and edit video easily. You can upload a file or record yourself on a web cam. You can also record the screen so that you can make a tutorial for your students with your image on the side if you want. If you make a mistake you can easily cut and splice. You can edit the audio separately from the video. It’s easy to add titles, transition effects and subtitles. What I like best is that you can make Flash quizzes to test if your students understand the video. You can stop the video at any point, then the questions appear. If the students get the questions right, the video continues, if not you can send them back to any part you want so that they watch it again. Camstasia allows you to save the video in many formats, but if you include Flash quizzes it seems to save it as a group of files. I don’t know if I will be able to upload this on to the Moodle platform when I get in. Another doubt I have is about copyright. I was editing a video I downloaded from Youtube, but I guess I am going to have to record my own videos if I want to use them in this course.