Camtasia+for+Blended+and+Online+Learning

1:00-1:30 Introductions

 * Who's in the Room?
 * Goals (yours and ours)

1:30-2:00 Best Practice, Features and Demonstrations - Part I

 * Using Screencasts in PD

2:00-2:15 Break and Casual Discussion

 * Discussion Topic: How are you thinking about using Camtasia in your classes/workshops? What are the challenges you see?

2:15-3:00 Best Practice, Features and Demonstrations - Part II

 * Examples for Using Screencasts in Classrooms / Useful Features / Best Practices>

3:00-4:15 Lab for Using Camtasia -- Basics Review or Advanced Practice
Take some time to review the basics of Camtasia or practice some of the more advanced topics
 * Basic Camtasia | Call Outs, Pan-and-Zoom, etc. | Producing Videos
 * Blended Learning Lab Activity

4:15-4:30 Wrap-up and Evaluations

 * [|Evaluation]

[|Listen to Dave talk about pen-based input on YouTube]

Don't have the money for Camtasia, but still interested in doing screencasts?

Other tools for doing screencasts are listed below. I've indicated whether they are free or not and whether they are mac or pc software. If you are very interested in screencasting you may wish to use one of these other tools as many of them offer much more functionality and options than Jing. There may be other options out there that will work as well, these are just the major ones that I know are in use.
 * [|Camstudio] (Free, PC)
 * Camtasia ($, Mac/PC)
 * Captivate ($, PC)
 * Screenr (Free, Mac/PC)
 * SnapzPro ($, Mac)
 * Screenflow ($, Mac)
 * [|Screencast-O-Matic] (free, Mac/PC)

Some Suggestions from TechSmith for Consideration **__BEFORE__** you record: http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/6/record/recording-tips.asp