Shush 2.0

Project Reflection

Jane and I had a lot of fun with our project. We used Camtasia, a comercial software package, to record the screencast, but everything else was done with Web 2.0 applications. To write the script, we used PB Wiki and it worked really well for us. Because Jane lives in Northfield and I live in Minneapolis we weren’t able to get together often. Using the wiki enabled us to collaborate on the script on our own schedules, completing it before we met to record the screencast.

Recording the screencast was slightly awkward for me. I’m not one who likes to hear the sound of her own voice, and finding a voice that didn’t make me feel cheesy and didn’t make me sound bored was challenging.

Our biggest challenges came with YouTube and overcoming what its compression did to the readability of the video. We adjusted the settings based on recommendations we found on the Internet and YouTube. We also edited the Camtasia video to zoom in on areas where we felt important detail had been lost.

If we had not been successful in uploading a useable video to YouTube, we considered using blip.tv. The quality of video on blip.tv is better, and the viewing area is larger. However, we wanted to use YouTube because the user base is greater.

For our presentation, we used Google Docs. I like the presentation tool better than the word processing tool. When I tried to write my paper in Google Docs, I got frustrated with the formatting options and went back to word.

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