Thing 18 is looking at multimedia tools.
Jing
Jing is a screen-capture tool, allowing you to create videos
of on-screen activity.
ScreenR
We actually use ScreenR for this. It is a similar tool but
you don’t need to download any elements. You can see some examples on our
YouTube channel. We are creating these as part of our etutorial presentations.
You do have to be well prepared before starting to record – what to say, the
order to demonstrate something; and if you have to restart more than 4 times,
do it another day.
I often just use an image editing tool to capture single
screenshots and add additional elements.
Podcasting
The only time I have used podcasting was when I signed up for a
radio 2 series of programmes. But I don’t think that this medium suits me – I
don’t tend to listen to radio programmes.
I haven’t created stand-alone audio elements. It is
something that I have often thought about – creating an audio tour of the
library for example (similar to tours used in museums) but I’m not sure how
popular they would be. Has anyone done this successfully? It always feels like
the visual element is required these days.
Audacity
I have used audacity frequently to create the audio element
of our etutorials. We incorporate the audio files created into mediator which
we use to create the flash-based tutorials.
Summary
Over the past year I have experimented with a number of
tools to create multi-media elements to use in the etutorials that we have been
developing. It has been a steep learning curve and I’m sure that there are many
improvements to be made but everyone has to start somewhere.
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