As part of my assignment for Module 6 in the online course Technology Innovations with the University of Wisconsin – Stout, I had to create a podcast and screencast for the first time. As instructed this screencast is now on TeacherTube, the educational alternative to YouTube, which is blocked in many schools including mine.
This is about using the Gaussian Blur effect in Photoshop. I embedded the video from Google, because the instructions for doing so with TeacherTube is much more complicated.
This screencast was created using Camtasia Recorder, an old program I acquired in 2001. The latest version, called Camtasia Studio has a lot more features such as being able to record your own narration and focus or zoom in on the screen. But as I am more comfortable with CR, and CS kept shutting down on me due to some memory error — even though I shut down and restarted my PC — I think I’ll stick with Camtasia Record for a while. I did have to use Audacity and MovieMaker for the narration. You don’t have to tell me, I hate my voice and the way I talk, too — why the heck do I pause in the wrong places???
