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Spotlight on Richard J. Campbell, University of Rio Grande

Create an Interactive CD-ROM Tutorial for Class

"When the first version of Camtasia came out," Richard Campbell said, "it was love at first sight."

Campbell, an accounting professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio, uses Camtasia Studio to create material for his Internet accounting courses. Recently, he used Camtasia Studio to create an interactive CD-ROM tutorial for his class.

Creating a CD-ROM with Toolbook and Camtasia Studio

During installation, the Wise Installation installs the TechSmith codec on the student's computer. Campbell created buttons in Toolbook which ran the movies using the Camtasia Player, though he is revising the program to autorun from the student's CD-ROM drive.

"In most computer labs, students do not have administrative rights, and running CDs using an autorun program like TechSmith's MenuMaker is the only feasible option," he said.

SCORM objects for an Internet accounting course

Since Camtasia Studio can package videos in SCORM-compliant format, educators can track if and when students have viewed a video. They just need to track the students' performance in a SCORM-compliant course management system like WebCT, Angel or Blackboard.

Besides learning if the students viewed the video, the instructor can test if they learned from it.

"With the Flash-based quizzing capability, the instructor can verify if the student has understood the material," Campbell said. "My goal for my accounting course is to create at least three hours of lecture and demonstration material for each chapter."

He also uses Camtasia Studio in a way that's incredibly helpful for all his students. He explained, "With my Internet accounting course, I have "virtual office hours" using Gotomeeting.com. I can record these sessions with students with Camtasia Studio and post them in the course management system for those students not attending the session." As a result, even the students who didn't think of the question - or who were too timid to ask - can hear and understand the answer.

Overall benefits

Campbell commented that traditional paper-based textbooks are limited in scope and detail, whereas a short three-minute Camtasia Studio video can more effectively explain a difficult accounting concept.

"For example," he said, "I created a Camtasia Studio video on using Microsoft Excel to solve a system of simultaneous linear equations for a cost allocation problem. If I prepared a text of the step-by-step solutions, it would take at least 10 printed pages."

"I love it!" he exclaimed.

See a video created by Richard J. Campbell: http://www.projectstreamer.com/users/campbell79/angel004/angel004.html

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