Camtasia Studio gives you the opportunity to review material at your own pace. These presentations help you understand material that can't be clearly illustrated by text and pictures alone. Best of all, viewing the lectures on your own, leaves more time during any online sessions for students to ask questions and participate in group discussions.

Have you ever noticed how helpful it is to have a copy of a class presentation to take notes on? Just imagine how useful it would be to have the presentation complete with your instructors narration slide by slide.

IDDL supports users who want to expand their presentations to produce high quality presentations that can be viewed online or downloaded to a personal or work computer.

Also, Camtasia Studio gives you the opportunity to create, review, and edit your material at your own pace.

Camtasia Studio is a product of TechSmith. Camtasia creates high quality software that will save instuctors time when creating tutorials and presentations for web delivery.

Demonstrations are made easy with the use of this tool that captures professional looking screen recordings of any program on your PC. Those screen recordings or screen captures are a series of screenshots of an activity that simulate a video, Camtasia records full motion video in real time. It allows users to choose between any portion of their screen. Publish your videos in formats such as Narrated PowerPoint Presentations (Adobe Flash, Windows Media, Apple Quick Time, and Real Networks Real Media). Moreover, you can add narration by recording audio to be used in conjunction with screen recordings.

By visiting http://www.techsmith.com you will be prompted to select your copy of Camtasia Studio for your operating system. The retail price is $299.00 from TechSmith; you may also be able to find it offered on other sites.

Make sure that your computer and network connection are ready for the installation.

Authoring Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Vista
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or later recommended
• 1 GHz processor minimum ~ 3.0 GHz recommended for PowerPoint and camera recordings
• 500 MB RAM ~ 2.0 GB recommended
• Windows-compatible sound card, microphone and speakers (headphone microphone set)
• 60 MB of hard-disk space for program installation
• Camtasia Studio Add-in for PowerPoint requires PowerPoint 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007

Need Camtasia Studio for Windows? Download it here.

Playback Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP or later version
• 90 MHz processor
• 16 MB of RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card with speakers/headphones (recommended)
• Media Player (Free - Adobe Flash Player, Apple iTunes, Real Media Player, Windows Media Player )