1. Road Map
1) Where are you at?
2) The can of worms
3) Authentic learning
4) Fun bits

2. Technical issues
or THE CAN OF WORMS
Large – PPTpowerpoint
Small - SWF
FILE SIZES

3. Animated GIF –
1. does not contain audio
2. Limited to 8 bits 256 colour
3. Play animation in an image viewing
program, web browser.
4. not used for long videos
5. ideal for short clips

4. AVI
Audio Video
1. Quality preserved
• AVI –
1. Used as a temporary video format
2. CODEC (TSCC)
3. If installed on another comuter ensure that
CODEC is same.

5. FLASH (SWF) and FLV
• FLASH
• Short low motion screen or P/point
• Not for camera video
• FLV
• For longer high motion video
• WMV clips/MPEG/PIP/videos with Zoom-n-
pan

6. iPond/ iTunes (M4V) portable
• Camtasia automatically formats to compatible
iPod.
• MP3 – MPEG -1 digital encoding to reduce
amount of data.

7. Authentic Learning
• Moving towards authentic learning does not
require fancy multimedia.
• Think about web 2.0 softwares

8. FUN BITS
• Zoom and pan – when you edit to get fine detail.
• Blogs – watch through camtasia
• Quizs
• CALL OUTS – camtasia studio>task list>callouts
( to download software, websites, hyperlink,specific markers, replay sections.)
1. Click Add Callout,
2. Select callout type
3. Make a Flash hotspot/properties

9. Functionalities
(fun bits)
Up load Camtasia to ‘You Tube’
1. Drop file into camtasia
2. 320 x 240 for utube
3. Drag into timeline
4. Right click audio enhance
5. Remove background noise
6. *WMV good file type for u tube.
7. AVI boosts quality and FILE SIZE
8. Watermark for copyright and ownership

10. FUN BITS
• iPod ---- download to iTUNES U
use PSP for iPond
VP6 codec (compressor)
• Screencast. Com - hosting service
Creates an Itune compatible RSS feed for
podcasts or screencasts