With high speed becoming the norm and new advancements in internet technology, online video has become and accepted learning tool. There are many useful tools to help you present informational material One such learning tool is called Camtasia

When you want to walk someone though a process to be completed on a computer or inside database software, or for that manner anything that can be illustrated on a computer screen, you will wish to walk the learner through the entire process. For that to happen, you need to implement a screen capture of the steps to take yourself and record the events on the screen simultaneously using screen capture software.

Building such walk through training is achieved by means of screen recording software or demonstration software. One of the market leaders in this arena is camtasia. It has been the leader for a number of years and is therefore regarded by everyone in the E-learning industry as one of the most user friendly tools.

You have a lot of options available in camtasia you can convert serious stuff into funny videos. You are free to choose whether you wish to record the entire screen or a part thereof. You can choose to add voice-over for ease of understanding the steps involved. The output is of course, a simulation movie.

Using this software you can easily provide captions, callouts, highlights text fields for the user to type in, mouse rollovers etc. You have the ability to produce only portions of the video and you can even provide navigation buttons beyond what is actually shown on the screen and edit the bitmap images for all presentation controls .This software is really a complete learning tool

Last but not the least, this software supports diversity by providing multilingual support . English, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, French and many more languages are supported. So, language is not a hurdle for delivering excellent simulations, if you happen to choose camtasia. The help files are good and the interface it quite intuitive and there are many learning tools available with which you can learn how to use camtasia in a matter of minutes.

Terri Roberts has been developing many Camtasia videos and offers a comprehensive training program.

- Terri Roberts