Today I am going to download a trial version of Camtasia. This software allows you to capture screen movements and so is excellent for creating tutorials. You can even add video and audio to give it that complete learning experience. Once I've done this, I'm going to load the finished product onto a video ipod to see if it would be a feasible tool for the small business to use for training. I'm also going to use some free software to turn an ordinary powerPoint presentations into a video format and in turn make that available to download onto mobile devices such as a video ipod.

OK step one: I used a trial version of this really great software Presentation_to_Video_Converter to turn a powerpoint presentation into a video format. It really was very simple to do. You simply open up your presentation in this software set up how you want it to play and when you are ready, press start. As it was capturing the presentation it makes a transition through the screens and you can record a voice over or add sounds. Once finished, you can upload it to the web via google's new video upload program. This is a beta version and you can use others such as uTube. I'm not sure as yet whether the whole world can see it if they wish, I shall have to have a look into that. Here is the finished product: I think it shows how you could easily put together a presentation and post it to the web for people to watch wherever and whenever they needed. Great for the small business on a budget!


OK, so its not the best quality, but I didnt really tweak the settings, in fact I'm not sure I even selected the right format in the software. You can improve the quality by taking note of google's quality parameters