EDUCAUSE 2012 Presenter Profiles: Jane Maurer

Meet Jane Maurer Jane Maurer is an Instructional Technologist and Trainer at University of Denver. She is also a Sys Admin for Blackboard, Camtasia Relay, and AdobeConnect servers on campus. She trains and supports faculty in the Daniels College of Business.     Lecture Capture—and more!—For the Masses Lecture capture solutions are helping campuses increase student learning and satisfaction, while improving instructional effectiveness. Unfortunately, many colleges and universities Continue reading

TechSmith Fuse – Anywhere and Everywhere

So. You've got a Camtasia Relay server, and you're just dying to use it but don't know what to use it for? Yeah, me too. But then I installed TechSmith Fuse and my life took a significant turn for the better. Ok, maybe that's a touch extreme. But, I can tell you from the perspective of a PhD student that Fuse has changed the way I collect interviews and observe my surroundings. Here, I'll show you. What is TechSmith Fuse, anyway? Good question. TechSmith Fuse can be found on your Camtasia Continue reading

Flipped Classroom Under the Bright Lights on CNN

Seeing the flipped classroom grow from grassroots to CNN has been an awesome experience. In his interview with CNN this week, Greg Green of Clintondale High School (Clinton Township, MI) did a fantastic job of representing the passion of the educators in the movement. This clip (and hopefully others to come) will introduce a new audience to these bright spots in education, but it's the discussion that follows that will shape what happens next. As I'm typing this, there are 538 comments and counting Continue reading

EDU11 Presenter: Eric Coffman

Eric Coffman is the Manager of Application Development at West Virginia University's Health Sciences Center. More than 500 faculty and administrators are using Camtasia Relay at the HSC, allowing students the ability to watch their lectures while on the go. TechSmith has actively strived to work with Eric to make their experience with Camtasia Relay the best it could possibly be. EDUCAUSE 11 Presentation: Real World Camtasia Relay Eric Coffman discusses how West Virginia University uses Camtasia Continue reading

Something new under the hood

Photo credit: Speedin' Camtasia for Mac users may have noticed something different in your screencast projects after installing our free Lion-ready update a couple of weeks ago. It's the good kind of different, not the other kind. The version history for Camtasia for Mac 1.2.2 includes this rather modest item: "Overall improved recording performance." What, in fact, happened is that our development team rewrote the TechSmith Capture Codec, a core element of our recording engine. Continue reading

Dev Corner – Roles and Authorization

This week's Dev Corner blog post comes from Dan Fiedler is a Security Engineer at TechSmith. What would you like to see future Dev Corner blog posts about? I've recently been working on making authorization in Camtasia Relay more flexible. Camtasia Relay has always had a notion of role-based access control (RBAC) but depending on how RBAC is implemented in your application you can run into problems extending your security-related business logic in the future. In this post I'll talk about different Continue reading

ISTE Presenter: Jeremy Vanisacker

Jeremy Vanisacker is the Associate Product Manager and Product Manager for Morae at TechSmith Corporation. Jeremy uses Camtasia Studio, Snagit, Screencast.com, and Jing, in addition to working with Camtasia Relay and Morae. He has been with TechSmith since the fall of 2009. ISTE 2011 Presentation: Going Digital Gains Traction in EdTech Video can transform the impact your teaching has by making classroom content available to students 24/7, all semester long. At this presentation, TechSmith's Jeremy Continue reading