Please join us for our Summer 2015 workshops, or contact us for one-on-one appointments to learn about a variety of topics, including: Building a New Moodle Course Intro to Video Editing: Final Cut Pro X Intro to Video Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro Screencasting with Camtasia (Mac) “IT Under the Trees”: Instagram Screencasting with Camtasia (Windows)…
If you’re interested in creating instructional videos, take a look at this great article from EDUCAUSE:
What Makes an Online Instructional Video Compelling?
We hope your semester is off to a great start! This fall our workshops focus on screencasting and video technology, but we are available to assist you with learning other new technologies. Please join us for our Fall 2014 workshops, or contact us for one-on-one appointments to learn about a variety of topics, including: Screencasting…
Video editing, in a lot of ways, is like cooking lasagna. If you don’t know how to cook, or you’re in a hurry you could make a few quick choices at the freezer compartment at the local supermarket. If you know a little bit about cooking and want to build your own lasagna, you might…
Integrating storyboards into a course or as part of a multimedia assignment makes a course more interesting and will engage students. Storyboards can also be assigned to students as a tool for presenting a project. Free storyboard templates and trail versions of storyboard creators are available to get you and your students started with this…
Interactive videos keep the viewer engaged, help highlight critical points and can assess the viewer’s knowledge. The annotation and spotlight options within YouTube can be used to link a series of videos you have created. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5zzVemi3m4[/youtube] Read more about YouTube annotations: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/92710?topic=14354&hl=en There are also services designed to create video-based quizzes. Blubbr is a free…
On Friday, February 15 the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) hosted the first Video Community of Practice, a planned ongoing series of events to support and encourage faculty and graduate student research projects involving video and multimedia. Moderated by award by award-winning documentary filmmaker Sarah Elder, participants showed examples of their work, which included:
On Friday, February 15 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., please join us for a discussion of video and multimedia use for research, moderated by award-winning documentary filmmaker Sarah Elder. This is the first in an ongoing series of Video Community of Practice events hosted by the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) to support and…
Here are some links to recently created tutorials on using iMovie to create short video projects. We created these to help students with video projects they are creating for different course projects. These are designed to act as a supplement to our iMovie: Digital Video Editing Basics Guide. iMovie ’09 Tutorials, in 12 Parts: Part…
By Jason Blanchard and Zach McDowell Earlier this week, the U.S. Library of Congress handed down a ruling that expands the circumstances in which academics can circumvent copy protection in order to use copyrighted materials for fair use. This ruling will significantly affect instructors using DVD clips and other technologies in their course. However, the…
What is Screencasting? Screencasting is using a piece of software to record on-screen activities, frequently with narration, that can then be shared with an audience. Techsmith’s Camtasia is one popular tool for screencasting on which Academic Computing provides workshops, but there are a range of programs out there. When talking about screencasting, people usually differentiate…
In our digitally infused lives here at the University, it has become increasingly necessary to collaborate and stay in-touch with colleagues far and wide — not to mention carving out time to meet with folks at distant corners of the campus (or even office!). Web conferencing to the rescue. With great efficiency I can connect…