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Video Express, Camtasia, and WebEx
This document provides an overview of options for using video and multimedia in teaching. It discusses benefits of using video such as demonstrating concepts in ways text alone cannot. It outlines tools like Video Express, Camtasia, and WebEx for recording lectures and presentations. It also reviews best practices for multimedia design based on Mayer's principles and considerations for accessibility, such as captioning videos.
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- 1. ANASTASIA TREKLES, PH.D. Videoand Multimedia for Teaching
- 2. • It candemonstrate, explicate, and illustrate in ways that text and pictures alone often can’t • It’s usually the next best thing to being there • It can reinforce important points to make them that much clearer • It can help students who process information better with visuals and/or audio Why Do We Love Video?
- 3. • Video ExpressRoom (LSF-253): Great for recording high-quality lectures, interviews, demonstrations • Camtasia: Great for recording lectures and demonstrations at your desk • WebEx: Great for conducting and capturing live discussions/meetings • ALL options above will record what’s on the screen of your computer while you present as well as a camera feed of your image (optional with Camtasia and WebEx) What are our options?
- 4. • Multimedia effect:words and pictures are more powerful than words alone • Continuity: related words and pictures should be near each other onscreen • Personalization: students learn better from more informal, conversational styles • Coherence: Extraneous or “nice to know” information does not help student learning • Modality: Students learn better when their visual channel is not overloaded (words as speech rather than onscreen text) Mayer’s Multimedia Principles
- 5. • Be yourselfand keep things light • Use voice to reinforce any onscreen text • Use still pictures and video as much as possible and where appropriate Implementing the Principles • Keep it short and meaningful (<12 minutes per segment) • Tie activities to the video if it’s important that they watch – otherwise, it might get skipped
- 6. • Provide transcriptsand/or lecture notes (this is essential for ADA accessibility!) • Provide downloads of videos or other learning materials on a thumb drive or CD/DVD • Recommend to students places to study on and off- campus, such as in an open computer lab, the cafeteria, or a local coffee shop • Use tools that allow for media to be accessed and/or downloaded onto mobile devices that students may very well have available to them, like smartphones and iPads What About Students Who Don’t Have Access at Home?
- 7. • Captions shouldbe onscreen long enough to be read • Limit to no more than two lines • Synchronize as well as possible with the spoken word • Punctuation and italics can clarify meaning • Describe sound effects when they convey meaning • All actual words are captioned Captioning Best Practices
- 8. • There areseveral tools available to help you caption videos you produce • Camtasia has captioning built-in • YouTube has online caption editing services • Subtitle Workshop is a free tool that allows you to write or import captions to almost any type of video Tools for Captioning
- 9. • Make anappointment to use: call the OLT (x5734) or the Helpdesk (x5511) • Dress well but don’t wear green! • Videos can be edited in any program, like Camtasia, later on, including if you want to use the green screen effect • All videos go to your Video Express account where you can download them at http://videoexpress.purdue.edu • See http://www.pnc.edu/distance/videoexpress/ for more information Video Express
- 10. • Capture whatyou are doing on the screen, plus webcam and audio • Full editing, very flexible • Published video can be viewed on multiple devices • Assess understanding with built-in quizzing • Overview: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html Camtasia
- 11. • Purdue hasa university license for you to have Camtasia in your office and on your home machine (Mac and Windows) • Visit http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/camtasia/ to download the license request form and wait approximately 24-48 hours for response • You will be able to download from a secure Filelocker the Camtasia version of your choice, along with SnagIt – a great tool for capturing and editing still, single-frame screen captures Getting Camtasia for Home and Office
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- 15. • Great resource:http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial.html • PNC website: http://www.pnc.edu/distance/camtasia- and-jing/ • Custom Media with SnagIt and Camtasia: http://assets.techsmith.com/Docs/pdf- camtasiaStudio/Camtasia_Studio_8.1_Create_Library_M edia.pdf • Tips for engaging screencasts: http://assets.techsmith.com/Docs/pdf- camtasiaStudio/Camtasia_Studio_8.1_Create_Engaging _Screencasts.pdf Getting Along with Camtasia
- 16. • YouTube (free– time limited) • Google Drive (free) • Screencast.com (space limited without paying) • Save as MP4 and use through Kaltura in BlackBoard (can be slow with large files) Publish It!
- 17. WebEx Overview • WebExis a Web communication system that allows users to reach others online anytime in a live conference • What can it be used for? • Webinars • Classroom Lectures • Virtual Office Hours • Distance Learning • Professional Development • User Collaboration on content • Available WebEx app for iPhone/Android allows talk and text chat, reviewing of content, some file sharing
- 18. WebEx – GettingStarted All users with a Purdue account have access (even students) Visit http://purdue.webex.com to log in Webcam and microphone needed Start a conference – four types: • Meeting: For interactive presentations of a general nature • Event: For scheduled online events and webinars • Training: To administer online tests or quizzes, and conduct lab sessions or virtual office hours • Support: For helping others work through technological issues by sharing screens
- 19. Setting Up aQuick Meeting • Login to WebEx at http://purdue.webex.com • Click Meeting Center • Open your personal room – http://purdue.webex.com/meet/[youruser name]
- 20. WebEx Meeting Management •Go over basic etiquette with students, like not talking over one another or changing the slides • You can mute participant microphones and manage access on the fly • Have students use the chat feature for questions (in case they cannot use the microphone) • Practice good etiquette in the room: • Try not to speak over others • Communicate effectively • Respect network delays/lags
- 21. Personal Meeting RoomNotes • You must be in the room first before others can enter • You can share the link to anyone – they don’t have to log in • Schedule a meeting and make the link available if you want students to meet on their own
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- 23. Recording WebEx Sessions •WebEx records through the Recorder button in the top right of your meeting window • Make sure to click the Red Record Button in the lower right to start recording!
- 24. Accessing Published Recordings • Allpublished recordings go to the Kaltura MediaSpace: http://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu • You may log in at the MediaSpace website to access links to all recordings • You may also access recordings in BlackBoard through the Build Content -> Kaltura command • There is a lag time between recording and accessing the finished recorded link, which can be several hours depending on length
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- 27. Reach us at: •pncolt@pnc.edu • Twitter and Facebook: @PNCOLT • http://www.pnc.edu/distance for all workshop notes, links, and training needs Thanks!
Editor's Notes
- #2 Welcome to Video Express, Camtasia, and WebEx! Learn all about the various tools available to you to enhance your teaching in any class.
- #3 We can typically all agree that video is a powerful medium. It’s often the next best thing to being there, a tool that we can use to demonstrate or illustrate many topics that cannot often be described well through text or still pictures alone. When you do not have the ability to sit with students and work with them face-to-face, or when you are trying to describe a difficult concept, video can serve a vital role in your teaching. Video can reinforce important points, show things that you otherwise could not show live (like a space shuttle launch), and can generally provide students with wider access to information. Especially for those who do not process audio or text alone that well, it can help students grasp difficult concepts by appealing to their preferred learning styles.
- #4 Video Express is a room-based system that allows you to easily record high-quality video with just a few clicks. The video is uploaded to a website where you can download it later and do whatever you like with it. Camtasia allows you to record and edit lectures, demonstrations, and other types of screencasts right at your desk, wherever you are. WebEx also allows you to record at your desk, or you can also hold live discussions with others, including students, other faculty members, or guests from off campus. Anyone can participate in a WebEx room that you open to them simply by accessing a link.
- #5 Richard Mayer is somewhat famous in the instructional design world as a major contributor to the body of research in multimedia. He has studied how people learn through computers and multimedia (the mix of text, graphics, and video on a screen) for many years, and has come up with a few important theories. Here are just a few of these research-tested theories. Of them, the modality principle and multimedia effect are probably the most helpful to teachers and instructional designers, as they help us understand how words, images, and audio can be most optimally used to enhance learning.
- #6 In practice, implementing Mayer’s principles involves ensuring that you maintain a personable, light tone in your presentations to help students identify more readily with you. This has been shown to increase learning. Also, use voice to reinforce any onscreen text – PowerPoint slides are great visuals but you may not wish to rely on them alone to convey information. Using still images with video also may help improve learning and focus attention. Above all, try to keep videos short and easy to manage – the longer they are, the more likely someone will be to turn it off or stop paying attention halfway through. About twelve minutes is considered a “golden rule” for instructional videos. Also, if you tie in activities like quizzes or discussions to video, it is more likely that students will look at it. Without using some accountability measures, your video might get overlooked by students eager to find out what’s expected of them.
- #7 Students who do not have technology access outside of campus can be provided with lecture notes or transcripts of videos. This is an ideal thing to do regardless if there is a student with a disability present in your class, as some may prefer to read instead of watch the video, or some may wish to read alongside your presentation. Providing a PowerPoint with notes written in the Notes section of the PowerPoint slides is an excellent way to accomplish a “transcript” without having to do a lot of extra work. Camtasia also can provide automatic captions through its captioning tool by listening to what you say and using speech-to-text technology, if you wish. You can also consider putting your materials on a CD, DVD, or thumb drive for students to take with them if Internet access is an issue, or recommend other places around campus or in students’ local communities where they can participate online, such as local coffee shops or restaurants. You may also want to make sure that you are using more maintstream tools, such as Camtasia, which can publish to YouTube or Screencast.com, to ensure that the most students possible have access, even from iPads or mobile devices.
- #8 Captions should be onscreen long enough for someone to read at an average pace, which is why you also want to limit your captions to no more than two lines. Once you start having too many words onscreen at once, people can find them difficult to follow and can lose track of what’s going on in the video. Ideally, your captions should also be synched with the audio as much as possible – in this way, everyone is able to review the video at the same rate, and there are no misconceptions if something is being talked about in the video that hasn’t yet been put forward in the captions, or vice-versa. Punctuation and italics can help clarify meaning as well. Using questions, exclamation marks, and italic fonts to emphasize words that are emphasized in the audio can help viewers get the full understanding of what is going on, as they must take the place of verbal inflections and intonations. Sound effects and all actual words should be included in the captions as well. Especially in a movie, sound effects and off-screen audio can convey a lot of meaning that should not be missed out on. The effect of reading the captions should provide the same experience for the viewer as if they were able to hear the video.
- #9 There are a number of captioning tools available, although Camtasia has one of the easiest ones to work with, and is readily accessible to all of us at Purdue. You can write your own captions, use automatic voice recognition to begin the captioning process, or import a transcript. YouTube also has some caption editing services to help enhance its automatic service, which definitely does not work very well. You will not want to rely too heavily on any automatic tool for captioning your videos, as there are often errors. Machines simply aren’t ready to capture everything humans say in print, and we have to remember this at all times. Otherwise, we run the risk of letting a student turn on automatic captions and being very confused by what we are “saying”! Another free tool to try is Subtitle Workshop, which allows you to write or import you captions into existing videos of all kinds. If you already have some captured video that you want to add captions to, Subtitle Workshop may be a good option, especially if it is in a format that Camtasia cannot handle. The links on this slide and the next few slides will take you to help concerning these tools
- #10 You can make an appointment to have the room opened up for you any time to use the Video Express equipment. Note that you will be on camera, and the quality is high-definition, so you may want to do your hair and makeup, but definitely don’t wear green! There is a green screen that will allow you to put whatever you would like on the background of your video after you produce it. You can take your videos into Camtasia or any other video editing program you may be familiar with (such as iMovie or Windows Movie Maker) to clip, edit, and use the greenscreen effect. Videos are uploaded to the Video Express servers at Purdue within minutes of your recording, and you can then download or transfer the videos you create to BlackBoard. You can also download them for uploading to places like YouTube or any other video hosting service of your choice.
- #11 Camtasia also records videos captured from the screen and allows you to narrate with voice through a microphone and images through your Webcam as well if you desire. Camtasia is, however, a fully-featured editor as well, allowing you to edit your video, create captions, add transitions and effects, and even assess understanding through quizzes posted right inside your video. While these quizzes are merely self-checks or practice, they can aid in understanding quite a bit, and can also help keep students engaged while they are watching. They no longer need to be passive participants.
- #12 Camtasia is available free to Purdue staff on and off-campus, on both Mac and Windows platforms. It is able to publish to many formats and has features that make it worth learning and using. I personally use Camtasia for the many, many videos that I record for my students each semester, and receive good feedback on them. To request Camtasia, log in at itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/camtasia and follow the prompts.
- #13 The Camtasia interface is relatively simple and provides a place for tools and options, a place to preview your video as it is being edited, and a timeline to show where your tracks are, and where your audio is. You can even see the waveforms in your audio to see whether you have any particularly loud or soft spots, and these can be edited with volume tools, or deleted if you don’t need them. You can use the Red and Green slider tool at the top of the timeline to select portions of the video to cut, copy, move, or delete.
- #14 When you start recording you can decide where you will record from, whether your webcam and microphone will be on or off, and you can even test your webcam and microphone before you go to record. Once you’re ready, hit the big red Record button to start. Another floating window will show you your timer of how long you’ve been recording and you have buttons for pausing, stopping, and restarting your recording.
- #15 When you have a clip to edit, you’ll be able to use the many transitions, titles, effects, and other tools that Camtasia has available. Each one has a different set of options that are fairly user friendly. You can even create a quiz built inside of your video which will prompt the user and wait for him or her to answer before continuing. The results can even be emailed to you if you want to see them. The tools also have captioning functions which can allow you to add captions relatively easily to your videos.
- #16 These resources contain tutorials and many other things to assist you with learning Camtasia. The video tutorials from Techsmith are quite good, as are some of their manuals and handouts. The tool is simple to learn and get along with as well, making it accessible even to those with limited computer or Web publishing skills.
- #17 Camtasia also makes it easy to publish your work to YouTube, Google Drive, or screencast.com, which are free accounts that you can get. YouTube is of course something that many of us are familiar with, and Google Drive works similarly to a disk drive where you can upload files and allow them to be accessed via a link. Screencast.com is like YouTube, although it does not allow for surfing through similar videos or show any “related videos” while you are viewing. There are no comments or other social features with Screencast, making it ideal if you do not wish to expose students to these distractions during their learning experience. You can also publish your videos to a file and upload them through Kaltura in BlackBoard. To do this, save the file as an MP4 when you go to Publish and Share the video in Camtasia. The Kaltura tool is available under the “Build Content – Mashups” tool when you are creating any content in BlackBoard Learn.
- #18 WebEx is a real-time communication platform, allowing you to chat or share video and documents with anyone with an Internet connection and a device. Mobile devices are supported as well as computers. It can be used for many things, including holding live classes, virtual office hours, engaging in meetings or professional development, or collaborating with others on projects. At Purdue, students as well as faculty and staff can make use of WebEx for all of these purposes.
- #19 To enter the WebEx interface, log in with your career account username and password at http://purdue.webex.com. You will be asked the first time you log in to set your time zone preferences, and you will then be presented with the main WebEx menu interface. From here, you can enter a conference if you know the conference ID code, or you can schedule or start any of the following types of online conferences: Meeting: For interactive presentations of a general nature – this is the most common type of meeting and what many faculty will typically choose Event: For scheduled online events and webinars Training: To administer online tests or quizzes, and conduct lab sessions or virtual office hours Support: For helping others work through technological issues by sharing screens Many instructors may wish to set up meetings, events, trainings, or support sessions depending on the type of conference they are planning. Scheduling for all types of events provide options for password protection, session recording, setting specific start and end times, and sending the meeting URL out to participants at any time to notify them to attend the session. All types of sessions except Events also have “instant” or “one-click” versions where you can immediately set up a meeting room and get started; however, once the session is closed out, the online room is no longer available unless you have recorded the session to watch later. For some additional quick getting started hints and guides, visit http://www.webex.com/support/getting-started.html.
- #20 Let’s try it out! Try logging into WebEx and starting a few meetings or other types of sessions. You will see that the options are relatively user-friendly.
- #21 The text chat is a great feature that anyone can use, including participants. Encourage students to use this, particularly if they are having microphone issues. They may have microphones and know how to use them, but if they do not have headsets there may be echoing or “cutting out” issues to contend with. If anyone has too much ambient noise in their environment or are bringing on too much echo when their mic is “open” then they should be encouraged to keep their mics off and use the text chat instead. For yourself as well as students, observe your own ground rules and try not speak clearly, don’t speak over others, and speak possibly a little slower than you would normally. Audio quality over the Internet is of course different than true live speaking, so there may be misunderstandings due to not being able to hear you well. There may also be network delays that cause messages to come through a little bit after you’ve actually said something. So, people won’t hear you right away and therefore, won’t respond right away. Network lags can vary between barely noticeable up to a minute or more depending on the network speed each user has. On campus, network speeds are quite fast but at home, they may not be, so be patient and work with students and others you talk with over WebExas much as possible. Remember, too, that your students are not always as tech-savvy as you are, believe it or not! They may need some help getting comfortable with the meeting room, so be sure to be ready to point out things like how to mute and unmute the microphone, how to use the chat box, and how to use the whiteboard/document/screen sharing features.
- #22 Note that you must be in your meeting room before others can enter, although you can share the link to anyone. They can access without logging in – the system will just ask them to enter their name to join into the room. If you want students to be able to log into a room on their own, you can schedule a meeting through the Meeting Center and provide those who need it with the link. You as the “host” do not need to be present in such situations, as long as you allow attendees the privilege to join without you (which is on by default).
- #23 The basic meeting room interface is relatively simple. You can start up your audio using the Call Using Computer button, which allows you to test your microphone before going live. You can then choose to Share your whole screen, or just share specific documents by clicking the dots underneath the Share Screen button. Invite and Remind allows you to send your link out to anyone you wish via email. To the right are the participants list and chat windows, allowing for text chat between participants. The Chat can be turned on and off. The Recording function can also be turned on from the tab in the upper right, and notes can be provided that allow anyone in the room to type notes that can be seen by all participants.
- #24 Be sure to click the Recorder and then actually click the Red record button to start a recording in any meeting window. Just turning on the Recorder from the upper right-hand side of the screen does NOT start your recordings. You will know your session is actively recording when you see a timer appear and a notification that your session is recording in the bottom right.
- #25 You may record your sessions in WebEx by clicking the Record tab, and then clicking the red record button. You will know you are recording once the timer starts counting and you see the notification that the session is currently recording. Click the red Stop button to stop recording at any time. Once you complete a recording, your saved files will process initially into the My Recorded Meetings (or My Event Recordings, or my Training Recordings, depending on the type of session chosen) location in WebEx. However, recordings will not stay in this location. After full processing, they will move to your Kaltura MediaSpace at Purdue, which is accessible in two ways. Visit http://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu and log in with your career account username and password to access your recordings, including get permanent links of recordings to share with others. In BlackBoard, you may click Build Content in any content area and choose Kaltura Media to review your library and add recordings to your course directly. See Add Video with Kaltura (or this Kaltura tutorial video) for help with using Kaltura in BlackBoard. Note that recordings may take up to 24 hours to fully process, but are typically available within two hours of when your recording concludes.
- #26 Mediaspace can be accessed at http://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu – log in with your normal Career Account username and password.
- #27 You may also add your Kaltura media directly into BlackBoard by clicking Build Content, and choosing Kaltura Media from under the Mashups options. You will be taken to your recordings and can add these items into BlackBoard as content for your courses. Students may also add Kaltura media from their accounts in any toolbar where the Mashups button is available.
- #28 Please contact us and visit http://pnc.edu/distance for all workshop notes, links, and training needs. Thank you!