Enhancing Teaching Materials with Screencasts: Production &

Deployment

Michael Rees

School of IT, Faculty of BTSD

Michael Rees March 2009 VC T&L Screencasting Project 2

Project Objectives

• Investigate hardware and software requirements for recording and producing screencasts

• Integrate screencast recording into teaching processes

• Discover methods to deploy screencasts for students and others in an effective way

• Report on experiences and techniques found to be effective:– Online screencast primer– Seminar to demonstrate outcomes– Design practical workshops– Publish outcomes in conventional manner

Screencasting workstation

Michael Rees March 2009 VC T&L Screencasting Project 3

Vista Workstation

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XP Workstation

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Podcast Kit

Michael Rees March 2009 VC T&L Screencasting Project 6

Wireless Microphone

Michael Rees March 2009 VC T&L Screencasting Project 7

Camtasia Studio

Michael Rees March 2009 VC T&L Screencasting Project 8

Whole Subject Screencasts

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Shorter Screencasts

• Software demos, web applications

• System utilities

• Software development processes

• Training for colleagues

• Seminars, short talks at Bond and conferences

• Slideshare Slidecasts: screencasting lite

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Screencast deployment

• iLearn

• Screencast.com

• Archive.org

• YouTube

• iTunes/iPod

• Blogs

• Web sites

• Silverlight video repository

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Project Outputs

• Screencasting Primer: private wiki

– http://screencastbond.pbwiki.com

• Seminar to demonstrate screencasting workstation and screencast examples

• Practical workshop for teaching staff

• Conventional publication

Michael Rees March 2009 VC T&L Screencasting Project 12