Group Leadership Project

We used a variety of tools to deliver the PD tutorial. The slides were made using Google Presentation. The embedded screenshots and the voice over was completed using Camtasia. Each slide was recorded separately on Camtasia and then put together using iMovie.  The original plan was to try to record the video straight through as a group. However, we found that it was easier to do each of our slides separately. That way if a mistake were made, it could easily be rerecorded.We chose Camtasia specifically because it was easy to record a portion of our screen as well as our voice and then export it into a format that iMovie could use.

One thing I learned during the development of the final product was the Google Hangouts is a great way to do web conferencing. It was much smoother (less lag) than Vyew and it was super easy to do screenshare and work on the documents together. Furthermore, it (along with Google Docs) can be used to easily share video and audio files. This is much easier than trying to use one of the drop box sites.  One of the drawbacks, however, of Google Presentation is that you cannot record audio on individual slides like you can in PowerPoint. If this option would have been available, it would have cut out some of the middle steps involved in recording individual slides with Camtasia.

If we had to develop a similar product again, one thing that I would have done differently is using more of the audio balancing tools on iMovie since some voices are louder than others. However, I did not end up producing the video (Wouter did).  Furthermore, I wish we had known up front that Google Presentation did not allow audio recordings. If we had known that, we may have used a different tool for creating the slides (perhaps Prezi), so we could have saved some time.