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Making the Recording

Here are some guidelines suggestions for making a successful screencast recording:

• Do a quick test first.  Fifteen Fifteen seconds or so will give you a good indication of whether your audio recording level is fine.  You may need to tweak it.sufficient.  
• Pause a few 5-10 seconds before you begin speaking.
• Speak slowly in a natural voice.
• Begin with a one-sentence introduction of yourself and your subject (e.g., "Hi, this is........and I'm going to show you.......").
• Viewers will be focused on your mouse pointer.  Try , try not to make extraneous movements or move around too fast.
• With each on-screen action, tell people what you are doing to make sure they are following you .   (e.g., "Next I'm going to..." , "Now we will look at...").
• Small flubs or pauses are not necessarily reasons to restart the entire screencast! You don't need to deliver an award-winning performance, just one that effectively conveys what you are trying to teach.  If If you are using a screencast product that includes editing capabilities, you can usually cut out the portions you don't want to be in the final recording. 
• No need for a concluding sentence if it's clear where your lesson ends, but a brief recap of what you have shown is fine.
• When you are finished speaking, pause a couple of seconds before stopping the recording.
• Be sure to save your recording right away!

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Your screencast will require some post-production work before it is ready for "prime time".  It's not a lot of work, but it does require learning some more features of the screencast software.  MinimallyMinimally, we need go through the following steps:

• Create Creating a title slide
• Fade Fading from the title slide to the recorded lesson
• Fade Fading from the end of the lesson to a closing slide (which can be a re-use of the title slide)

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If you prefer not to do this part yourself, that's fine.  We DuraSpace will do it for you.  Simply Simply send the video to jjmarkow@duraspace.org along with the title, your name, and your organization for the credits.  If

If you do want to try the post-production work, and your screencast software allows you to do this, here are some guidelines.

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Optional:  Organizational Slide. You may add an Organizational Slide right after the initial Title Slide if you wish to add organizational branding to your screencast.  Please Please use the following guidelines if adding an Organization Slide:

• Begin with "Screencast Contributed by"
• Logo no greater then 20% of screen dimensions
• Corporate tagline and three or four services (optional)
• URL optional

Remember, if you prefer, we are happy to do your post-production work for you!

When finished, post your screencast to the specific KnowledgeBase subject page your screencast is about or you may notify jjmarkow@duraspace.org. 

We are looking forward to receiving your work!

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Posting the Screencast Video

Once you have finished the recording and post-production of your screencast video you can post it to a publically accessible location (local repository, YouTube, etc). The screencast can then be inserted into the relevant KnowledgeBase page by using the following syntax in the wiki markup view:

To insert a link to a video or presentation slides, use the following code:

{widget:url=http://www.insertyourlinkhere.com}

If you prefer (or don't have a place to store a publically accessible video), DuraSpace can store them on our YouTube.com account. For help please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollister@duraspace.org.