although i couldn’t get to the last maths network meeting till after 6pm – (says something for the group that they were still going strong) – I heard lots of good things about Kyle’s demonstration of the Captivate software (screen capture tool) . There’s a bit of detail and samples of their work at BSSC here .
I’d recently discovered a similar product (Wink) which does the same sort of thing, including nav buttons, voice and text annotations, and is free, so i’ve put a quick sample of that together here.
It needs a few techniques to get the audio recording to be reasonable (not too choppy) but its quite a good solution, all up.
Either way- Captivate or Wink, saves having to explain complex software (or the embedded maths) repeatedly …
(Wink is made by the same generous person who has written the Wax program, which is useful for bluescreen (example here) .. though i’m yet to see how we could use that for maths!?). Actually … i guess you could have a video of yourself talking in the corner of the tutorial; ie layer yourself over the main app you were explaining. Don’t know that most maths teachers would see the point of that, or if it would improve the result, but its possible….. but i’m happy to help anyone who wants to give that a go!
rob
i. (anyone can comment here – and maths teachers can publish … read through the start-here page on top right of page)
ii. part 2 of the minutes of this meeting are here
