Capturing Screen Images and Animation
When creating content for your next presentation, it would be nice to be able to capture what's on your computer screen...
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When creating content for your web site, training video or classroom presentation, it would be nice to be able to capture what's on your computer screen as you go thru the steps of a process. There are many options out there. One our webmaster uses is CamStudio, a free, open source program. While the current version (as of April 2008) is listed as beta (not ready for prime time), our webmaster has been using it without problems to capture "how to" videos for his other sites.
Stop frame animation -- think Chicken Run or the old Gumby cartoons -- can easily be done with programs like Clay Animator (free!) and StopMotion Station. Both sites include information and videos as to how stop motion animation is created.
HyperStudio allows you to create storybook like animation or "card stacks" that can import images from pod casts, web cams and more.
Adobe has a wide range of software available for creating and polishing your video project.
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Simple screen capture of a Web page can be accomplished by clicking on file/print on a Netscape browser. These tools can be placed in your school's software library for use with multimedia when needed. Not every teacher can be an expert on all of these tools. Spread the skills around and then you can concentrate on your classroom and go to the toolbox when you need something.
Remind your students about copyright issues when scanning in or capturing images.
