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Resources: Technology Software

Software for Screen Capture

Screen capture software records whatever you see on your screen, turning all of your on screen actions into a video.  You can generally select a 'subwindow' of your screen, so you don't have to see your email popping up all the time.  There are many options for this, and more showing up all the time.  Advanced options include the ability to edit your video easily within the software without having to resort to a video editing software.  This can produce more professional looking videos with title slides, headers, etc. and all of the ands and ums removed (maybe), but it comes at substantial cost in time.  I do not edit my videos, because I just do NOT have the time. In that case, more basic software will do the trick.

Some that we have liked include:  (Dr. Furse uses ink2go)

Screen Recording Software (Basic)

You can edit video files produced from the software below using free editing software such as Windows Movie Maker Links to an external site. and Apple's iMovie Links to an external site.. Your computer's operating software comes with editing software. More robust editing suites exist such as Adobe Premiere Links to an external site. (WIN/MAC) or Final Cut Pro Links to an external site. (MAC). You can also use Camtasia for editing and video compression for these video files. 

 Screen Recording & Video Editing Software (Advanced)

iOS apps:

  • Doceri Links to an external site. (Free APP, Desktop License $30)
    With built-in remote desktop control you can access and annotate over files resident on your Windows PC or Mac. You can also create hand-drawn lessons, presentations and graphics and share them as still images, PDFs or audio/video screencasts.
  • Explain Everything Links to an external site. (APP Free/$9.99/subscription)
    Explain Everything records on-screen drawing, annotation, object movement and captures audio via the iPad microphone. Import Photos, PDF, PPT, and Keynote from Dropbox, Evernote, Email, iPad photo roll and iPad camera. Export MP4 movie files, PNG image files, and share the .XPL project file with others for collaboration.

 

Uploading and storing videos

Once you have created a video lecture, you need a place to upload and store it.  Your university probably has a repository, and there are many public ones as well. 

Some good options include: (Dr. Furse uses YouTube with 'public' access)

YouTube  star.jpg

Vimeo Links to an external site.

YouTube allows you to upload videos with either public (good option for worldwide dissemination), semipublic (good option if you want your videos limited access to just your class, visible to anyone with the URL link, but does not show up in public search engines), and private (you have to specifically invite people with their email address to see your videos (probably not a great option for a class). 

Note:  I WISH I had set up a separate email address and YouTube channel for each separate class I teach.  Now I have everything all mixed together.  The 'playlists' are too limited to serve for a full class.

 

A place to organize your class and link video lectures 

This is where you normally organize your class materials, either a website or course management software.  At the University of Utah and Salt Lake Community College, Instructure Canvas is the standard course management software. star.jpg

To add YouTube videos to Canvas, just copy-paste the URL from the YouTube video into the canvas page or assignment.  After you save the page, Canvas will automatically pick up the video and embed it into the Canvas page, like the video tutorials you see above.