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st optimal environment we can for our children therefore we will not have to concern ourselves with perfection thankfully we can narrow our focus to being the best parent we can along this path of family making we have all chosen and turn our attention towards a deeper understanding of what it means to be attuned to our children that ought to be something all parents and teachers keep in mind every day parole officers too i suppose i suppose all this boils down to the concept of trust students need to know that they can trust me i need to invest trust in my students even though they as imperfect people and works in progress will break that trust on a bigger level my colleagues and i have to have a mutual sense of trust to work together my dean needs to trust me and i him in fact the whole fabric of higher education is predicated on trust no one can learn or teach in a college where the network of trust is not iron clad if trust is missing from a college what you have is a dying college on the other hand where trust flourishes learning and teaching flourish that is the kind of environment i want for myself and my students and so that s where my work begins 42 870859 85 865036 4 comments filed under education family higher ed life in academia student culture teaching vocation tagged as attunement grand valley state university higher education parenting 23 august 2011 8 00 am three things i learned at screencastcamp last week i had the chance to attend screencastcamp a weekend event put on by techsmith inc just down m 6 in okemos michigan what a great experience techsmith develops camtasia my go to software for all screencasting needs as well as several other great products like jing and snagit i ve been a fan of their products for a long time and it was great to spend time getting to know the people behind them screencastcamp was an unconference where there is no set agenda beforehand participants just come with an idea of what they want to learn and then either put on a session or request one there were about 40 of us participating mostly from education but with a healthy contingent from the corporate training world as well amazingly although this is a relatively small number of participants all the session slots for saturday and sunday filled up almost immediately as people pencilled themselves in to give sessions it was busy some of the sessions were like regular conference talks while others ended up as discussions among four or five like minded people sitting around on the sofas in a back area of techsmith headquarters the hosts were generous the food and the beer amazing and the atmosphere of enthusiasm infectious i came away with a lot of great ideas about screencasting but here are the three that stood out the most 1 write careful and complete scripts for your screencasts back in my series of how i do screencasting posts i wrote that a rough script was the way to go now i m a believer in complete careful tightly written and edited scripts what s so great about a complete script first of all i have a tendency to talk fast and speed up as i get going in a screencast scripting out what i m going to say not only helps me to edit my thoughts down to just the essential ideas it also provides a way to talk at a normal relaxed pace second having a script printed out in front of me will make it easier to caption my videos which is something that i want to start doing and indeed may eventually have to do if i have a script i can copy and paste the text of my screencast into camtasia for the captions it s a little more complicated than that sounds but at least i wouldn t have to transcribe the audio techsmith gave us a copy of the template ms word 66 kb with a bunch of my own stuff on it they use for their own screencast scripts i ve used this simple form for a series of maple 15 screencasts i m working on right now and it s really made things go a lot more smoothly than when i was reading from a text file or making it up as i go 2 record your audio first then your video this was the most radical idea i heard i had always recorded the audio and the video simultaneously using camtasia but that s not how techsmith themselves do it after writing the script techsmith screencasters will read the script and record the audio using audacity then the audio file gets exported into camtasia as an audio track and the video part is recorded on top of the audio separately at first i was very skeptical of this wouldn t it be a lot more work but after trying it myself i m a convert recording the audio separately reduces cognitive load you don t have to worry about getting both the audio and the video right at the same time and so both pieces turn out better audio is much easier to edit when it s not attached at the hip to video i think and you can focus on the quality of the audio as well as one techsmith employee put it viewers will put up with crappy video as long as the audio is good but not vice versa the way i ve made this work for me is with the following workflow first write a good script using the techsmith template then read the script into audacity putting plenty of white space in between each box in the template this gives viewers a little breathing room while they are watching next go back and edit out any mistakes in the audio either in audacity or in camtasia after the audio has been exported then to record the video turn off all audio inputs because you ve already done the audio start recording the screen then start the playback of the audio track and just click along with whatever it is you re saying from the script after all this is what your viewers are going to have to do once you re finished it s relatively simple to sync up the audio and video especially if you keep the whole thing short by just moving the tracks up and down the camtasia timeline until it looks like they work then trim off the beginning and end of the video to make the video and audio the same length 3 get a real microphone i ve mentioned before that i m too cheap to buy a usb microphone when the built in mic on my macbook works passably well but after trying some of the higher end equipment at techsmith and hearing what it sounds like on playback i think i might have to be well less cheap when i recorded my practice screencast in the techsmith studio the mic captured the full range of my voice without sounding like i was at the bottom of a well and no other sound made it into the audio part of that is because i was in a studio as opposed to my office but part of it is the microphone it really does make a difference i also picked up a ton of little tricks and tips from participants for example buy a dog clicker to use when you make a mistake on the audio the spike it makes in the audio waveform is really clear and it makes it easy to find where you need to edit screencastcamp was a great experience amazingly it was totally free too and i learned a great deal about how to be a better screencaster thanks techsmith 42 870859 85 865036 10 comments filed under camtasia educational technology inverted classroom screencasts technology tagged as camtasia camtasia studio ed tech jing multimedia screencast techsmith 20 august 2011 1 34 pm changes coming for casting out nines photo by adam b http www flickr com photos atbartlett my family and i are all settled well mostly here in michigan and pretty soon i ll be in full swing in my new position at grand valley state university i can t overstate what a delight it s been getting situated at gvsu it is a dynamic and forward thinking university full of great people and exciting ideas i haven t met a single person who isn t excellent at what they do and generous with their expertise i am officially taking co9s off hiatus and i intend to pick up the pace on blogging as the semester kicks off that seems wrong shouldn t i blog more when it s less busy but i ve always seen blogging as both an overflow mechanism to think more about what i m doing and an incubator to kick off new things by rehearsing them here along with a return to regular posting i have an announcement that i ve been waiting a long time to make over the next few weeks casting out nines will be rolled into the blog network of the chronicle of higher education the leading publication about higher ed in the world most higher ed people are already familiar with the chronicle s print and online publications the chronicle blog network will be a new venue of voices on the web writing about higher education with a worldwide scope and featuring bloggers from all corners of academia currently there are two excellent blogs in the network tenured radical and the ubiquitous librarian casting out nines will be joining them posts from blogs in the network will be promoted to chronicle readers through the chronicle s home page their e newsletter and their social media channels when you take into account that the chronicle s website reaches 1 7 million unique visitors and has 14 3 million page views per month this means that the posts here will be reaching a much much larger audience than in the past obviously i am tremendously excited about this this has been in the works for a long time almost a year and things are ready to take shape now over the next few weeks content from the site will be archived and ported over to a new location hosted by the chronicle on their servers it will be a hosted wordpress site which will allow me to add a considerable number of elements to the site that wordpress com doesn t currently allow like different video formats and mathjax typesetting and i won t have to deal with technical difficulties although i am not getting any money for this i consider having a team of experts handling the technical end of things to be more than enough compensation eventually when you type in the usual url for this site you will be redirected to the new site on the chronicle s servers this means you won t need to change any web bookmarks you use to get here as far as rss feeds go you might need to change the address i m not certain how this will go keep your current rss feed and if it goes dark all of a sudden check back in on the main site if it s been officially moved there will be an rss subscription link at the new place you can use to replace the old one i should stress that although co9 s will be officially a chronicle blog the chronicle will not be editing my work or telling me what to write about or not write about also none of the blogs in the network will be behind the chronicle s paywall the posts you get and the way in which you get them will be the same as always hopefully the posts will improve in quality but you ll be among potentially a whole lot more readers and commenters the whole look feel of the experience should be improved and you ll be able to put my posts into context with others in the network and with the chronicle itself it would be wrong not to say a huge thank you to all of you bonus points if you can remember the blog when it was called something else and what that something else was i hope you stick around for the next iteration 42 870859 85 865036 5 comments filed under blog announcements casting out nines tagged as casting out nines chronicle of higher education higher education mathjax rss wordpress 23 june 2011 7 11 am taking a break image via wikipedia it s been pretty quiet around here at casting out nines lately this is mainly due to two things first i m spending five days a week home with my oldest two kids the youngest joins us on wednesdays and keeping the kids active and engaged doesn t leave much time for blogging second as you all know i m starting a new position at grand valley state university in the fall and our big move to michigan takes place in two weeks we re totally uprooting in this move and preparing for it consumes a lot of time and emotional energy i ve decided that in light of all this that i might as well declare the blog to be on hiatus for a month or so until we re settled there are a couple of posts that might go up soon one of them being the last entry in the how i make screencasts series but otherwise let s just call it summer vacation here at co9 s and things will resume in back to school mode later back to school time always seems to happen too soon but that s another story i do want to mention because it s hard to keep it in that there are some major changes coming up for casting out nines that i am very excited about these have been brewing for almost a year now and are just about ready to go into place i can t really go into detail nor do i have an exact timetable but suffice to say that the experience you get here at co9 s will be better than ever and it s more than just another change in the visual theme anyway that s it from me for now follow me on twitter if you just can t live without my content ahem but otherwise get out there and enjoy your summer 39 555470 86 162034 1 comment filed under blog announcements casting out nines tagged as education grand valley state university michigan twitter 10 june 2011 6 00 am helping the community with educational technology image via wikipedia many people associated with educational technology are driven by a passion for helping students learn using technology in a classroom setting but i wonder if many ed tech people either researchers or rank and file teachers who teach with technology ever consider a slightly different role voiced here by seymour papert many education reforms failed because parents did not understand or could not accept what their children were doing remember the new math this time there will be many who have not had the personal experience necessary to appreciate fully the multiple ways in which digital media can augment intellectual productivity the people who do can make a major contribution to the success of the new initiative by helping others in their communities understand the potential and being helpful will do much more than improve the uses of the computers the computers could be a catalyst for turning our communities into learning communities so true so much of education falls to the immediate family and yet often there are technological innovations in the classroom which fail to be supported at home for the simple reason that parents and other family members don t understand the technology ed tech people can make a real impact by simply turning their talents toward this issue question for you all in the comments how it seems that the ways that ed tech people use to communicate their thoughts are exactly the ones off the radar screen of the people who need the most help twitter blogs conference talks youtube videos etc you would need to get on the level with the parent trying to help their kid in a medium that they the parents understand how is that best done newsletters phone hotlines take home fact and instruction sheets give me some ideas here h t the daily papert 39 555470 86 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