Category Archives: edtech

4×3 vs 16×9

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Alvin Trusty

If you are making a PowerPoint with captured screens, watch this 3 minute video. It shows how you should adjust your screen so that the window you are capturing is the proper 4×3 ratio for PowerPoint.

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Use Camstudio to Record Screencast of PowerPoint

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Alvin Trusty

I’m using the CamStudio Lossless Codec v1.4 with Quality set to 90. After recording I ran the video through HandBrake which reduced the file size to about 10% of the original.

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Take a picture – It will last longer

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Alvin Trusty

Here is my presentation from Ohio eTech 2012.  The accompanying Google Doc is here – http://bit.ly/TAPIWLL

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File Extensions

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Alvin Trusty
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Resize and crop a picture in Word without changing the aspect ratio

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Alvin Trusty
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