Monday, August 27, 2012

Video Lectures and the Khan Academy


This video is from The Khan Academy Youtube Channel.

The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that uses Youtube videos and its own online learning platform to provide online video tutorials and opportunities to practice skills. Salman Khan launched the organization in 2006 after realizing that many students enjoyed learning from self-paced online videos. To this date, Khan Academy has delivered over 182 million lessons, which feature multimedia explanations on topics in math, science, finance and economics, history, art history, American civics, and test preparation. Now the academy also offers lessons in computer science topics.

Wonder what the Khan Academy uses to author its video lessons? Khan writes that he uses or has used a combination of software and equipment:
  •  Wacom Bamboo Tablet – a tablet that works with a pen to serve as an optical device that can plug into your computer, enabling you to create digital content (e.g. drawings, diagrams, annotations, sketches, photo enhancements) by hand
  • Autodesk Sketchbook Express – a free “natural media drawing” software program that can be downloaded or comes with the purchase of a Wacom Bamboo or Intuos4 tablet. It is based on the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro software program.
  • SmoothDraw3 – a free “natural painting and digital free-hand drawing” software program
  • Microsoft Paint – a free Windows-based software program that lets you create content using various paint and drawing capabilities
  • And some kind of screen video recording software program like Snagit, Camtasia Recorder, or Screen Video Recorder that allows you to capture screen shots or activities taking place on your screen and integrate them into a video with other multimedia content.

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