Which recorder should I use?

[calculus]

My tech. director asked me to look into recording say 2 min. recordings (with voice) of solutions to math problems. He plans on converting it to a flash file so it can be posted on the internet. What would be the best way for me to record? Flipchart recorder or Full screen recorder?

[CPope]

Flipchart recorder only does the keystrokes, so do the Full Screen or Area recorder to get the voice with it using your microphone or built-in mic.

Char

[Peter_Kent]

Depending on how 'slick' your students are with solving thier problems you might like to try them solving the problems first using the flipchart recorder, and then play the flipchart and record this using the area screen recorder while students add a narration of what they did and why.

In this way it doesn't matter if students need some thinking time, or want to 'edit thier solution' without having to re-record the entire solution.

Having the students record the narration seperately might help them to look past the procedure or 'arithmatic' of the solution to also add detail about the mathematical concepts behind the solution.

Just an idea.

Peter

[CPope]

I've also used the "pause" function as I'm recording and that allows me the think time but only one record session....who am I kidding.....I always have to record more than one time anyway.:(

But the pause feature sure helps to reduce the number of times I have to record. :o

Char

[scaulfield]

Calculus,

If you are looking for a nice way to integrate that video into a lesson, check out the following flipchart;
http://www.prometheanplanet.com/us/server/show/ConResource.11248

It uses the recorder to show the work on division. Like you were going to do.

[Peter_Kent]

By the way,

Does anyone have a free legal way to convert AVI to Flash (flv) files?

Thanks

Peter

[kpbooth]

Have you tried zamzar.com? That is a free file conversion site. Some files work better than others though with this.

[CPope]

I don't know if the following program will convert to flash, but I do know that videora.com provides a free compression tool to take a 500 mb movie down to less than 2 mb.

Char

[saha]

Hi Peter,
If you are looking at a good way to capture screen into nice small flash format instead of bloated avi files, you may want to invest in "Camtasia Studio".

[Dug]

http://www.jingproject.com/?CMP=KgoogleJhomeTM

I think this creates .flv files 'on the fly'.

[Peter_Kent]

Thanks all for the responses on the flash conversion.

There are a million programs that convert FLV to other formats but going the other way seems not to be so common.

Peter