November 2007 — News
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Biology Teacher Engages Students with Classroom Capture, Multimedia
Students can take the quiz on their computer or mobile device, then be told if they've answered right or wrong. If they miss an answer, they can skip to the part of the video that explains the concept they just missed.
Carrier records a video at least once a week if time permits, and said the popularity of the classroom videos is obvious.
"There have been times ... when I haven't been able to do a video. The kids will just go nuts: 'Why didn't you put anything up there?'"
Carrier, who has been teaching for nine years and said he isn't especially technical, originally started putting notes online, since in his view, "kids don't take great notes. No one teaches them to do that." He graduated last year to using Camtasia to record lectures.
Camtasia includes editing tools, but Carrier said he performs minimal editing. "I really want to emphasize: It doesn't take much time to do this." He guessed that now that he understands the technology, he is spending "30 minutes, and I'm done. It's posted on the Web; I've done a review; I've added video; I've added any animations; it's rendered, and I've posted it; I'm done."
With PowerPoint, Carrier said, Camtasia can create a table of content based on the slides that lets the student skip anywhere within the lecture. "It's my writing and my voice up there," he said, "but it's the hardware and software that really makes the magic happen."
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