« 
 »
03 01 2008

Mixed Media: The Movie(s)

Posted by: DSJ in GoogleEarth, Mixed Media, Screencasting, Tutorials

I’m experimenting with Camtasia and Screencast.com to produce some screencasts that support my blog post from yesterday. In the post, I described how to use an online HTML editor to create content for Google Earth everest.jpgeverest.jpgplacemark windows, and how to put that content into a Google Earth placemark window. I’ve broken the screencasts into smaller clips to speed download as well as to give users a choice of specifically seeing what they are interested in. So here the are:

An Introduction to the Process (online HTML editor

Entering text and hyperlinks

Adding an image

Viewing the HTML Code

Adding a YouTube Video

Creating the Placemark file

I created these screencasts with Camtasia v4.0, but they could have also been created by using Jing or any other screen capture tool. The videos are hosted at Screencast.com which hopefully is available to most teachers (read “not blocked”). So far, I’m satisfied with Screencast.com (I have a basic account that I paid for, but free hosting is available) and see it as a nice alternative to YouTube and TeacherTube.

I’d be interested in your perceptions of the content, as well as how Screencast.com performed on your machine.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 pm and is filed under GoogleEarth, Mixed Media, Screencasting, Tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Mixed Media: The Movie(s)”
  1. John Maklary says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 4:31 am - Edit

    Hey Dave,

    Love the new Camtasia free version. I’ve been using the Fliqz/PBWiki marriage to upload files that I’ve created. Seems to be a lot better quality than with YouTube et. al. Plus it’s EASY for my kids to upload videos to their individual wiki pages. I like Screencast too but I get that feeling in my gut that that might not be a free option forever.

    The best part of uploading videos to your PBWiki site is that the video does NOT count against your file quota.

  2. DSJ says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 6:41 pm - Edit

    Hey John: are your kids screencasting? If so, what kinds of things are they doing?

  3. Jeff Utecht says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 3:56 am - Edit

    Thanks for these…first time I’ve seen someone use screencast and like it and it’s unblocked in China…for the time being. We’ll see how long that lasts. If you haven’t tried it yet Camtasia 5 is SO worth it! Great new features that I feel are worth the upgrade.

  4. David Jakes says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 5:22 am - Edit

    It’s a fairly expensive upgrade, but I think I will order it when I get back to school. Anything specific it does really well thats’ new?

  5. U Tech Tips » Blog Archive » Utecht’s Daily Links 01/06/2008 says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 12:33 am - Edit

    [...] The Strength of Weak Ties » Mixed Media: The Movie(s) [...]

Leave a Reply