Most faculty don’t have time to learn costly, complex solutions for recording and distributing lectures. Grand Rapids Community College partnered with TechSmith to offer an easy and effective way to capture lectures accessible by students through Blackboard and RSS feeds. Learn how faculty can capture lectures and share them in multiple formats, such as Flash, iPod Video, or MP3. Participate in a live demo in which the software is used to record and send a mini-presentation to the server. Participants receive a free trial, online documentation, and an overview handout.

1. Lecture Capture as Easy as 1-2-3!
Monday, March 3, 2008
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Spruce, Mezzanine, Tower Building
Eric Kunnen
– ekunnen@grcc.edu
– Coordinator of Instructional Technologies
– Grand Rapids Community College
Rich Boys
– r.boys@techsmith.com
– Product Manager Camtasia Relay
– TechSmith Inc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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2. About the presenters
Eric Kunnen
Coordinator of Instructional Technologies at GRCC
Co-facilitator of Online & Hybrid Certification Course
Emerging Technologies & Distance Learning
Background in Teaching
Rich Boys
Product Manager at TechSmith, Inc.
12 years in IT Administration and Management at the
University of Michigan
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3. Lecture Capture as Easy as 1-2-3!
1. Most faculty don’t have time to learn costly, complex
solutions for recording and distributing lectures.
2. Grand Rapids Community College partnered with
TechSmith to offer an easy and effective way to
capture lectures accessible by students through
Blackboard and RSS feeds.
3. Learn how faculty can capture lectures and share
them in multiple formats, such as Flash, iPod Video,
MP3.
4. Participate in a live demo in which the software is
used to record and send a mini-presentation to the
server.
5. Participants receive an overview handout.
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4. About Grand Rapids Community College
Established in 1914
One of 28 Community Colleges in
Michigan
Main Downtown Campus in Grand
Rapids
2 Technical Education Centers
15,000+ Students per semester in Full
and Part-time Studies
10,000+ Students in Non-credit
Courses

5. Issues, Challenges, Needs, and Goals
Faculty and students are now leading
The education experience and expectations are
expanding
The expanding campus
Budget constraints
The digital divide
Student achievement and engagement is key to
student success and retention
Diverse student populations
Complex applications limit innovation
There is a need for a solution to
meet these needs and more
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6. In the media…
“These days, students
who miss an important
point the first time have a
second chance. After
class, they can pipe the
lecture to their laptops or
MP3 players and hear it
again while looking at the
The New York Times, By ANNE EISENBERG, Published: December 9, 2007 slides that illustrate the
talk.”
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7. Who is Lecture Capturing?
35% = No Classrooms
Campus Technology Magazine (http://www.campustechnology.com) 74% = Fewer than 25%
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8. Do students want lecture capture
content?
“I like blackboard because I can keep track of assignments and grades,
and dates. I hate the idea that there could be video of the classes
because there seems to be enough people missing classtime or
sleeping in class and to be able to sit and cram at home seems
pointless.” - A GRCC Student
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9. At the conference…
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10. What is Lecture Capture?
A way of capturing the audio and screen and sometimes
video from the classroom.
Hardware or software solution
Recording of what happened
– On the computer screen
– The audio used in class
– Sometimes video of the presenter
– Sometimes video of whiteboards
Some solutions include distribution of the videos
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11. Lecture Capture vs Live Classroom
Lecture Capture Features
Capture what happened in class
Live Classroom Features
Live interaction for remote students
– Slides and or video feed of lecturer
– Chat or interact with other students
– Ask questions
Recording is an option for some products
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12. Solutions for Lecture Capture vs Live
Classroom Tools
LECTURE CAPTURE LIVE CLASSROOM
Enterprise Level Enterprise Synchronous Tools
– Camtasia Relay – Elluminate
– Echo360 (Formerly Apreso and Lectopia) – Wimba Live Classroom
– Tegrity – Centra
– Adobe Connect (Breeze)
– SonicFoundry Mediasite
– WebEx
– Panopto – …
– Accordent Capture Station End User Workstation Level
– … – Wimba Pronto
End User Workstation Level – Skype
– Camtasia Studio – iChat
– Adobe Captivate – ICQ
– Jing Project (Techsmith) – AOL
– AviScreen – MSN
– Yahoo Messenger
– CamStudio
– Assorted Web 2.0 Tools
– Screencast-O-Matic
– …
– …

13. Positives of Lecture Capture?
Better class time use
Increase student retention rates
Increase accessibility for learning to occur outside of the
classroom
Efficient and easy way for faculty to create multimedia
Effective way for students to review key lectures
Better way for students to manage notetaking for fast
paced classes
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14. Positives of Lecture Capture?
Ability for students to keep up with the class if absent
Online and distance learning students feel better
connected and benefit from visual lecture
A prior learning activity for better classroom discussion
New capabilities such as prior learning activity for
enhanced classroom discussion
Colleges can use for training, professional development,
and other campus activities such as orientations and
lectures
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15. Negative Views of Lecture Capture?
Faculty say that students won’t come to class
Faculty concern about intellectual property
Students say that gives an excuse for other students that
sleep, skip class, come to class late, etc.
Students need broadband access to playback the lecture
Campus infrastructure bandwidth concerns
Faculty worry about “everyone” seeing their teaching
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16. Key Lecture Capture Requirements
Scalable (mission critical, enterprise level system)
Integrate with other existing systems for automation
Ease of use for faculty (buy-in)
Flexible
Customizable
Effortless and efficient (administrative and faculty)
Indispensable
Role and value to education (relative advantage)
Contribute to the enhancement of teaching and
learning
Encourage student involvement and engagement.
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17. How easy to use is Camtasia Relay?
STEP 1
Launch Recorder
STEP 2
Select Profile and Record
STEP 3
Publish Blackboard and RSS feeds. Learn how
faculty can capture lectures and share them in
multiple formats, such as Flash, iPod Video, or MP3.
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18. TechSmith and Easy Lecture
Recording
Rich Boys
Product Manager, TechSmith

19. TechSmith Overview
Established in 1987
Privately held company in Okemos
Approximately 185 employees.
Products localized into five languages and a distribution
network of resellers in more than 30 countries.

21. • Capture menus & more
• Be clear and concise
• Work fast

22. • Record everything, clearly
• Don’t describe, demonstrate!
• Publish in many formats

23. • Lightning quick
• Don’t mess with files
• Reuse training pieces

24. Screencast.com
Screencast.com’s intuitive design makes
uploading, managing and sharing your
information, images or anything else effortless.
Using Screencast.com you have complete
control over how, when and to whom your
content is distributed.
Screencast.com is integrated with Camtasia
Studio so you can share high quality
screencasts that engage your viewer including
video delivered to iPod users.

25. Morae
Effortlessly capture detailed human computer
interaction
Quickly analyze user data and performance
Transforms static numbers and metrics into captivating
presentations.
Morae’s flexible, all-digital approach facilitates fast,
easy, comprehensive testing anywhere, at any time

26. www.TechSmith.co
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27. Current solutions are…
• Expensive Staff intensive
• Complex Limiting
• Difficult Bad for students
• Tedious

30. Simple
Portable
Plays Well with Others
Easy to Support
Secure, yet agile
Complements
Camtasia Studio

32. Anywhere, anytime

36. Review and retention
Convenient formats
More interaction in
class

37. Flexible recording
Simple process
Instructional
effectiveness
Maximized class time
Increased student
satisfaction
Technology that adapts
to you!

38. No new media
servers
No new classroom
hardware
Fewer support calls

39. Easy roll-out
Minimal training
Use existing
hardware
Anywhere, anytime
learning

40. Camtasia Relay
Coming soon…
See www.TechSmith.com/CamtasiaRelay for more
information

41. Camtasia Relay Benefits
Educators can have all the benefits of a
lecture capture solution without the
technical headache.
Faculty doesn’t have to change their lecture
style, and time on training is minimized.
Manual handling and processing of lectures
is substituted with an automated centralized
management system.

42. Camtasia Relay Benefits
Recording system is more portable, easy to
deploy, record anywhere and anytime, no
special hardware needed.
Students enjoy the benefit of high quality
recordings and timely availability of the
recordings.

43. GRCC and Camtasia Relay
Currently beta testing Camtasia Relay since Fall 2007.
Initial faculty and staff reactions are positive.
Plan to increase number of courses recording with
Camtasia Relay in Summer 2008.

44. Relay - Live Demo
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45. What’s Next?
Enhance Adoption
Determine Reporting Needs
Enable Deeper Blackboard Integration
Better Profile Decisions
Better Recorder Capabilities
Leveraging Relay with GRCC’s $25,000 AT&T Grant
Determining Destination Points (Screencast.com or ?)
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46. Thank You!
Questions, Discussion, and Comments
Eric Kunnen
– ekunnen@grcc.edu
– Coordinator of Instructional Technologies
– Grand Rapids Community College
Rich Boys
– r.boys@techsmith.com
– Product Manager Camtasia Relay
– TechSmith Inc.
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