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USING PERSONAL CAPTURE

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Do you want to complement your teaching by making a recording on your computer for your students to access on the VLE? Using Personal Capture would enable you to do this!

What is Personal Capture?

Personal Capture (by Echo360) is a facility which enables you to record whatever is on your PC screen to a video file. You can include audio (a microphone is necessary) and also a video image of yourself if you want to (and if you have a webcam) which will give the personal touch. After recording, you can make any minor changes and then publish your video for your students to view via the VLE.

How can I use Personal Capture?

You could:

Produce a "welcome" message for your students
Provide a feedforward or a feedback resource for their assignment
Supplement the formal face-to-face lectures with "mini-lectures" on complex topics
Provide a weekly talk before the formal lectures to enable your students to prepare for next week's topic.

Benefits for your students

They can play the video as many times as they want and wherever they are,
A video may appeal to their learning mode.
Distance Learners students may feel supported with the personal touch,
A weekly mini-lecture may help them with planning ahead and juggling their many commitments.

How Personal Capture works?

Watch our video on how to use Personal Capture.
Watch the video from Anglia Learning and Teaching to see how to use Personal Capture
Look at the materials from University of Sussex
Try it out first in a Teaching Hub - contact LTA@anglia.ac.uk for details.

I want to use it on my PC. What do I need to do?

How to install the software (Contact ISMS Customer Support)
View the Document "Using Personal Capture in your Teaching"

Case-study - University of Sussex - JISC Me2U project

Have a look at their recordings made by lecturers at the University of Sussex who have used Echo360 Personal Capture to support student learning
They presented their findings at the ALT 2011 conference (September 2011). Have a look at their presentation which includes the lecturer's reflections, and whether Personal Capture made any difference to assessment marks.