Week 6

This week we looked at communication through video. We discussed about synchronous and asynchronous communication. Synchronous communication is direct communication. For example, telephone. Asynchronous communication is the transmission of communication without the coordination of sender/receiver. An example of this would be an email or blog. We then discussed the characteristics of a podcast. These include a series of digital media files, audio or video and they are usually released and downloaded. We then discussed the uses of a podcast. They can be used for general use, business use, education use, entertainment use and for the news. We then focused on screen casting. This is a digital movie in which the setting is partly a computer screen. Tools of this would include Screencast - O - Matic, Copernicus and Jing.
In this week’s e - lab, we were set the task of creating a screen cast video using Screencast-o-Matic. Screencast-o-Matic allows users to record the screen on their computer. This can be useful for people who want to show a step by step video guide on how to do a specific task. We were assigned the task to make a video of a simple Google image search and upload it onto our Youtube channels. I added a back track to the video. Below is the completed video.