Camtasia Studio 8: How We Use Hotspots

If you've watched any of our video tutorials, you may have noticed that we usually include a clickable link to surveys or other tutorials. Well, as long as your videos are delivered through the TechSmith Smart Player, you can do the exact same thing!  You can do even more with a little creativity – like use hotspots to break a video into sections or create a custom table of contents. In the video below, I'll walk you through adding a clickable hotspot, and explain what it looks like Continue reading

ISTE 2013 Presenter Profiles: Rob Zdrojewski

We're SO excited for ISTE 2013! The TechSmith Academic Solutions team will be heading down to San Antonio this year for the Annual Conference and Exposition, and we're eager to hang out with all of our presenter pals at our booth. The four day conference begins on June 23rd and ends on June 26th, focusing on advancing and improving education through the use of technology. Not surprisingly, the whole concept is something that we're thrilled to be involved in. Will we be seeing you there? In the Continue reading

Dan Roam’s European training – Plus an analysis of his video

On the January episode of the Forge, we talked with author and visual thinker Dan Roam about visual thinking and how it helps make our ideas and communication clearer. Dan let us know about an upcoming opportunity. He's hosting a Visual Thinking training this summer in London and Berlin (Sorry for everyone in the US, but if there's enough interest, maybe we can convince him to do one stateside. Or you can check out our interview with Dan or his Napkin Academy). Register for Dan's training London Continue reading

ISTE 2013 Presenter Profiles: Steve Kelly

We're SO excited for ISTE 2013! The TechSmith Academic Solutions team will be heading down to San Antonio this year for the Annual Conference and Exposition, and we're eager to hang out with all of our presenter pals at our booth. The four day conference begins on June 23rd and ends on June 26th, focusing on advancing and improving education through the use of technology. Not surprisingly, the whole concept is something that we're thrilled to be involved in. Will we be seeing you there? In Continue reading

A report from ScreencastCamp Germany

ScreencastCamp has gone global! Inspired by the ScreencastCamp held at TechSmith’s headquarters in Michigan each summer, Anton Bollen, TechSmith’s European Evangelist and author of the German TechSmith Blog, and Andreas Pilz, a Camtasia trainer and professional screencaster, organized TechSmith’s first international ScreencastCamp in Nürnberg, Germany. Background Barcamps and Themecamps have become increasingly popular in Germany.  In fact, there are over 80 events in the country Continue reading

“It’s Like Writing a Play:” Make Screencasts Painless with Storyboards, Scripts

Screencasting is daunting—it’s no secret. The time and energy it takes to record, edit and publish high-quality videos is often much longer than the end product. Many of us make the mistake of diving into the thick of a project as well. This tends to lead to hours of frustration, eventually pushing us away from our video project and toward cat videos on YouTube. But it doesn’t have to be that way. When John Shaw of BravoSolution reached out to us with a recorded Prezi presentation Continue reading

Register now for ScreencastCamp 2013!

Campfires, s'mores, BBQ, tech, geek crafts, sporks and lots of screencasters. What more could you ask for over a weekend? Mark your calendars for our third ScreencastCamp on August 2 - 4, 2013! Once again, we're having it at our TechSmith offices in the lovely Lansing, Michigan area. Already sold on it? Register now (it's free to attend!) Update 5/8: We've filled the 100 spots available for ScreencastCamp but have opened a wait list. If you register you'll be added to the wait list and notified Continue reading