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GTA Technology Tips & Tricks: Screen Capture/Screen Casting/Screen Recording, Photo Editor & Audio Recording

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The below resource summary may be of help to first year students.
A great open source cross-platform tool for recording audio using your computer is a program called Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/). You may need to use this program in 505 for example, when recording and/or editing sound files for interview participants.
If you don’t already know how to capture images from your screen try this:
  • Windows – Print Screen (PrtSc) – For the whole desktop to be captured. Then enter the application you want to deposit it in and paste (Ctrl-V).
  • Windows – Alt-PrtSc – The current open window. Then enter the application you want to deposit it in and paste (Ctrl-V).
    • Note cropping images in Windows requires a photo editor (Microsoft Paint, GIMP/GIMPshop, Paint.NET, Adobe Photoshop Express are all free).
  • Mac OS X – Shift-Command-4 – Hold your trackpad down and pull the cross hairs across the screen to “capture” the image (you are effectively using a crop and capture tool). It will automatically be saved to your desktop.
  • Mac OS X – Shift-Command-3 – An image of the whole screen will be saved to your desktop.
Want to jazz up your presentations (i.e. for that 503 bibliographic assignment I have been hearing about)? Try screen casting/screen recording tools. There are all kinds of open source software online (Adobe Captivate is very good but its professional quality software so you have to pay a lot!), so try these:
They are each slightly different, so you may want to take a quick look at all of them.