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May 2009 | Issue 64 |
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| Letter from the Editor: Newsletter changes are coming |
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The goal of our email newsletters has always been the same: to help you get more from your TechSmith products. More efficiency, more fun, more ideas for how to make your life a touch easier...
Some of you currently receive four email newsletters from us every month, along with our fifth periodical newsletter with Mac product information. Others may only receive one newsletter but might be interested in other content we publish.
Starting in July, our five English-language newsletters will be replaced by a single newsletter with customizable content. You will be able to choose the content—by type and by product—that is relevant to you!
Next month's newsletter will contain more details, along with a link to set up your preferences. So for now, there's nothing for you to do. But we wanted to let you know in advance, hear any concerns you may have (contact), and ask you to keep an eye out for instructions in June.
Katie Birmingham
Newsletter Editor
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Camtasia Relay 1.0 set out to make lecture capture so easy and automated that anyone at your organization could do it and everyone would want to.
Now with Camtasia Relay 1.1, you can scale the system as large as you might wish—adding more users and multiple servers without burdening your IT staff.
Presenters can run the recording software directly from a USB thumb drive or other device, for installation-free capture. The new PowerPoint Add-In ends the problem of forgetting to hit "record." And much more...
Join us for a 30-minute, live webinar about Camtasia Relay 1.1. See what's new and ask any questions you may have. Sign up for webinar.
Features added in Camtasia Relay 1.1 (details)
* Portable recorder for zero-install capture
* Trimming to remove dead time from ends of recording
* Add-In for PowerPoint (Windows) prevents missed recordings
* RealMedia production format
* Improved support for multiple servers
* Easier large-scale user management
* Faster, more capable web interface
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The Writing Center at Western Washington University is using Jing to offer students better feedback, faster. According to the article, "Writing Center introduces new program to assist students," by Jenny Farrington, students can submit their work online to the Writing Center and can choose to receive either written or oral feedback.
"Jing would allow the Writing Center to assist students sooner and help with clarification as well as making it a more personal experience," Writing Center Director Roberta Kjesrud said.
Read the full article to find out how students are liking, or not liking, the Jing option.
As a side note, I have also seen this technique used in grading. Teachers use either Jing or Camtasia Studio to record themselves grading. This gives students a clear explanation of the feedback they receive on their assignments.
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| Free Download: Camtasia Studio 6 Definitive Guide sample chapter on audio |
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Camtasia Studio 6: The Definitive Guide by Daniel Park is hot off the press and available for purchase in the TechSmith store.
The book offers 600 pages of practical wisdom and step-by-step guidance gleaned from the author's experience as a professional screencaster (and before that, a TechSmith employee).
By special arrangement with the publisher, we're able to offer newsletter readers a sample chapter to download (PDF). In these 34 pages, Park walks you through the how and why of title clips, voice narration, basic audio editing, tips for good audio, and recording camera video.
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| Camtasia Studio Guest Tutorial: Deep clean your audio with Audacity |
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In this tutorial video, professional screencaster Ian Ozsvald shows how he brings his Camtasia Studio audio track into the free audio editing software Audacity to clean up distracting noises, snip out long pauses, remove noise, level out the audio peaks, and reduce the power of s's.
As he notes, not every project requires this level of tweaking...but when nothing short of perfection will do, Audacity gives you a high degree of manual control over every aspect of your audio.
A big thanks to Ian for sharing his expertise with the screencasting community in this video...and in his recent tutorial series and podcast interview!
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In Screencast.com, you can group media for viewing using playlists. Let's say you are a social studies teacher and you have a variety of materials to supplement your lessons. Some of them were recorded with Camtasia Studio, others are interesting articles you have found, and you also have a PowerPoint that your predecessor did that is just too engaging not to share.
You can upload all this content to Screencast.com, then create a playlist to distribute to your students. That way, you can send them one link to all the content. You could even create an RSS feed that will automatically send students new content as you add it. This tutorial will show you have to select the content you want included and how to share it using a playlist.
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Camtasia Studio
Recording and Presentation
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