Yesterday, I went to ED's computer lab to record my tutorial. Luckily, there was no class in one of the labs, so I had the room to myself for a little while. I brought my microphone to record the audio, but I still had to speak fairly loud, so I knew I would be a distraction to everyone around me if I had not been able to go into that particular room.
When I was planning this project, I couldn't quite remember what program I had used to screencapture and record audio, but I found it with no problem. After firing up Camtasia, I practiced for a while, testing my voice and the playback audio. I got through 17 minutes on my first recording, but I was frustrated at Dreamweaver not formatting correctly. After deleting those 17 minutes, I immediately restarted the whole narration. I was almost to the end of the second recording when a group of other students came into the room. They were really polite and didn't talk once they figured out I wasn't talking to myself like a crazy person. I felt really bad that they were quite, though. I apologized afterwards, and they were nice about it.
The only other problems I had with this was the fact that I felt like I was plowing through the material way too fast. I'm much better at laying out the different information and pacing based on student/audience needs, but I felt like I needed to cover a lot for the tutorial. Ideally, the Dreamweaver tutorial that I did would be one of many, each addressing different topics such as tables, more creative linking, embedding video, etc.
Overall, I'm satisfied with the narration although it took an hour to render/convert and was too big to email everyone. I've saved the QuickTime movie version on my flashdrive; I hope it works because that's the only copy I have.
The group is meeting on Wednesday to go over the order, tie up loose ends, etc. We've been emailing each other and sharing our work, so things are wrapping up nicely.
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