My Odyssey: Why I Started Using Videotutorials in my courses
I Challenges in Teaching Technical Material:
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Heterogeneity of Student Skills and Abilities
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Need for Repetition
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Vehicle for Effective Recapitulation
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Review of Procedures
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Maintenance of Interest and Confidence
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Asynchronous Instruction frees the instructor from repetitive
tutoring
II My Experiences and Application Examples
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Late 2001, Seeking a more useful screencapture program
to make written handouts and website instructions--Don Kummer suggested
Snagit.
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January, 2002--First SnagIt Video rtclkcpy
for BA1800--a 5 MB AVI.
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November 2002 --Editing
with Styles in MS
WORD workshops on CD ROM
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Development of Videotutorials for Statistics in EXCEL
example:stats
paired t test in EXCEL
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Summer 2003 Summer Institute workshops with Marcel Bechtoldt
on Use of videocapture techniques.
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2004 Applications to Illustrate Techniques for Detecting
College
Cheating.For example. the back
calculation procedure
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Demonstrate Miscellaneous techniques such as Studies on
the Missouri
Sex Offender database.
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Summer-Fall 2005 Purchased Academic Version of Camtasia
Studio 3 allowing FLASH Video Production.
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Batch Conversion of bulky AVI's to FLASH format (~3-5%
file size)
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(In Process) Student
Guide for Independent Statistical Analysis of Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance
System (YRBSS) with CD ROM of Videotutorials.
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(Upcoming) With Jennifer Siciliani-- Grant Proposal to
Use videotutorials to Train Secondary School Teachers and Students to Study
the YRBSS data--example
smoking and weight. The concept is that Self -directed Learners will
internalize the lessons and be better fortified with healthy attitudes
towards risk behavior.
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A convenience copy of the current version of my okay-to-copy
CD of course videotutorials and other instructional aids can be obtained
at instructionalvideotutorials.com
III How Easy Is It?
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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.
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Thirty Day Trial Copies of SnagIt and Camtasia and Videotutorials
on how to do it at www.techsmith.com
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Here is a 30-day trial copy of the snagit
trial version that I have permission to distribute.
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Camtasia Studio Quick
Start Guide
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Quick link to the basics of recording a video with Snagit
your
first video
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Quick link to the basics of recording a video with Camtasia
Studio
IV What Is Teaching and Why Do We Teach?
Conclusion
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