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.
• (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.
• 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?

• 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.
• Camtasia Studio Quick Start Guide
• Quick link to the basics of recording a video with Snagit your first video
• Quick link to the basics of recording a video with Camtasia Studio

IV  What Is Teaching and Why Do We Teach?

Conclusion