As part of the class, each student will make a 6-10 minute Camtasia video recording of a software demo. This handout discusses some of the benefits of using a storyboard to plan the video before beginning the recording stage of the project. Creating a storyboard before you begin your Camtasia recording will help you:
A storyboard for this project might contain four main elements:
What do you want the audience to see?
What will you be doing during the recording?
Where are your cursor and mouse pointer?
How will this coordinate with your narration?
What do you want the audience to hear?
How can you explain/supplement the visual elements?
How can you be clear?
How do you want to coordinate the narration with the screen action?
What do you want to add to the narration and screen action to enhance clarity?
What do you need to do to package the video as a stand-alone demo?
How can you emphasize important elements of the video and eliminate unnecessary clutter?
Examples of such techniques might include:Title page
Credits
Subtitles
SectionS
Highlighting
Callouts/Hotspots
Panning
Zooming in/out
Editing audio/adding audio
Pauses/breaks
Quizzing/feedback
Partial storyboard for simple Camtasia video providing a basic overview of ICON (logging-in and navigating).Note: a more complete narrative and additional production tasks (zooming in, callouts, etc.) may be beneficial.
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Screen activity |
Narration |
Production tasks |
1 |
Start: blank browser window Type: URL for ICON website |
This short video demonstrates how to access the University of IowaÕs course management system, ICON—Iowa Courses Online. To begin, simply type in the URL for the ICON site--that is icon.uiowa.edu |
Title page: ÒHow to use ICON/Johnathan Gajdos/Fall 2006Ó Fade in to start |
2 |
Enter: HawkID and Password Click: log-in. Click: plus sign to access semester
course listings. Select: ICON Course (Fall 06 013:011) |
Then, you need to login with your HawkID and password. Click login. Now you should see a listing of the courses for which you have access. This is arranged by semester É Select the course you are interesting in accessing |
Subtitle: ÒAccessing the ICON URLÓ Subtitle: ÒSelecting a course within ICONÓ |
3 |
Mouseover: toolbar commands ÔclasslistÕ, ÔTA infoÕ, ÔSyllabusÕ Click : ÔsyllabusÕ Close : window with syllabus pdf |
You are now in the ICON site for that particular course. Each course is set-up differently, soÉ To see a list É. To view information about the instructorÉ É The syllabus link provides a good example of how external É When you are finished, simply close that link É |
Subtitle: ÒA course siteÓ |
4 |
Click: ÔcontentÕ Scroll (down and up): content table of contents |
Here, under content, is the main meat of the course. Here we have, arranged by chapter, all of the homework exercises, different cultural modules that are available in each chapter, and other information about the course. |
Subtitle: ÒA courseÕs main content pageÓ |
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Click: Òcultural explorationÓ Mouseover: Òvideo-basedÓ & Òtext-basedÓ Click: Òvideo-based assignmentsÓ Scroll down: through assignments |
For example, if a student wanted to learn about their cultural exploration exercises, they would click on cultural exploration. Then they have a choice of video-based assignments and text-based assignments. Under each of these categories there are a number of individual assignments that open in a separate pdf file for the student to complete. |
Subtitle: ÒAn individual content pageÓ |
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Click: Òlog-outÓ |
When you are finished with ICON, you can simply click on log-out. |
Subtitle: ÒLogged outÓ Freeze final screen (ICON welcome page) Comprehension quiz: two multiple choice questions |