My Odyssey: Why I Started Using Videotutorials in my courses

I Challenges in Teaching Technical Material:

Heterogeneity of Student Skills and Abilities
Need for Repetition
Vehicle for Effective Recapitulation
Review of Procedures
Maintenance of Interest and Confidence
Asynchronous Instruction frees the instructor from repetitive tutoring

II My Experiences and Application Examples

Late 2001, Seeking a more useful screencapture program to make written handouts and website instructions--Don Kummer suggested Snagit.
January, 2002--First SnagIt Video rtclkcpy for BA1800--a 5 MB AVI.
November 2002 --Editing with Styles in MS WORD workshops on CD ROM
Development of Videotutorials for Statistics in EXCEL example:stats paired t test in EXCEL
Summer 2003 Summer Institute workshops with Marcel Bechtoldt on Use of videocapture techniques.
2004 Applications to Illustrate Techniques for Detecting College Cheating.For example. the back calculation procedure
Demonstrate Miscellaneous techniques such as Studies on the Missouri Sex Offender database.
Summer-Fall 2005 Purchased Academic Version of Camtasia Studio 3 allowing FLASH Video Production.
Batch Conversion of bulky AVI's to FLASH format (~3-5% file size)
(In Process) Student Guide for Independent Statistical Analysis of Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) with CD ROM of Videotutorials--example smoking and weight.

III How Easy Is It?

Here is a "tips & tricks" demo of using screencapture videos with the paint program to make videotutorials on noncomputer topics--a manual analysis of spam incentives using game theory.

paintpd2.html
cropaint.html

Thirty Day Trial Copies of SnagIt and Camtasia and Videotutorials on how to do it at www.techsmith.com

Here is a 30-day trial copy of the snagit trial version that I have permission to distribute. This is an old version to play with it, get a newer version demo from techsmith.com
SnagIt screen capture provides a convenient and efficient tool to sidestep the time-consuming limitations of the copy, paste and print screen commands. Use SnagIt to collect, edit and share content from the computer and Internet. Activate your captures through a toolbar built into Microsoft Office, and customize images with SnagIt's powerful, yet intuitive graphics editor. Save time, enhance your communications and illustrate your ideas with this award-winning, easy-to-use software solution. With more than seven million users and four PC Magazine awards, SnagIt is the everyday computer tool for beginners, experts and everyone in between. SnagIt SolvesIt, every day.

Camtasia Studio Quick Start Guide PDF
Quick link to the basics of recording a video with Snagit-- your first video
Quick link to video on the basics of recording a video with Camtasia Studio

IV What Is Teaching and Why Do We Teach?

Conclusion

Back to home

Free videotutorials for teaching:

Introduction to Computers
Introduction to Business Statistics
Introduction to Production and Operations Management

Download the free videotutorials from the links below or you can order a convenience copy of the most recent version of all the videos on a CD from instructionalvideotutorials.com

A new version is produced about 3 times a year, fixing issues, improving content, adding in new videos and new resources as they are developed, so it may be worthwhile to update your copy from time-to-time. (current version 01-16-06)

This CD is "free-to-copy" for nonprofit educational use.

Distribute to your students, give it to friends and relatives.

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