Using SnagIt to Enhance Your Classroom Materials

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Using SnagIt to Enhance Your Classroom Materials

• Internet, Multimedia and
• E-Business Conference
• June 24, 2004
• Anne L. Comins
• E-Business Program / Internet and Multimedia
  Technology Program
• The Community College of Baltimore County

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Welcome

• What can SnagIt capture?

• What is SnagIt?

• Screen Capture Software

• How does the program work?

• How can it help me?

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What is SnagIt?

• A powerful Windows screen capture program
• Created by TechSmith
• Privately held company
• Founded in 1987
• Located in Michigan
• Products include SnagIt, Camtasia Studio,
  EnSharpen, and Morae
• Provides amazing educational support

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What Can SnagIt Capture?
IMAGES
TEXT
VIDEO
WEB
PRINTER
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What Can SnagIt Capture?
Over 45 ways to capture content from your PC.
The Entire Screen
Icons
Region of a window
Editable Text
A Window
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Image Capture
What Can SnagIt Capture?
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Text Capture
What Can SnagIt Capture?

• From screen -- error message to send to
• Help Desk
• Saved as editable ASCII text (.txt)
• Scrolling text

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Video Capture from Web Site
What Can SnagIt Capture?
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Video Capture from Desktop
What Can SnagIt Capture?
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Web Capture
What Can SnagIt Capture?

• Captures all graphics from URL
• Link search depth
• Types of files (.gif, .jpg, .png)
• File size (max., min.)
• Maximum amount of space
• Fixed address or prompt for address

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How Can SnagIt Help Me?

• Help Desk Error Capturing
• Step-by-Step Demonstrations
• Curriculum Guides
• Email Attachments for Students

• Classroom Handouts
• Presentations
• Tests
• Web Pages

• "This summer I taught technical communicaion for
  two weeks in Alexandria, Egypt. I prepared
  numerous PowerPoint presentations, and SnagIt
  screen captures appear in most of them.
• David Farkas, Professor of Technical
  Communication, University of Washington

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How Can SnagIt Help Me?

• Enhances communication
• Emphasize important messages.
• Capture error messages.
• Improves documentation
• Capture specific icons, menus, and more.
• Explain concepts with pictures rather than with
  words.
• All-in-one tool
• Capture, edit, organize, and share all your
  screenshots.
• No need for additional image editing software.
• Improves efficiency
• Reduce time spent explaining long or redundant
  tasks.
• Improve learning curve with effective visual
  aids.
• Embedded directly into your Microsoft Office
  applications.

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How Does the Program Work?

• SnagIt Interface

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How Does the Program Work?

• Input Options / Properties

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How Does the Program Work?

• Output Options

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How Does the Program Work?

• The Process

• Start SnagIt
• Set Capture Type Image, Text, Video, Web,
  Printer
• Set Input/Output Options, Filters
• Minimize SnagIt
• Set Up Screen to Be Captured
• Use Hot Key Sequence
• Preview
• Finish / Cancel Output

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Additional Features
SnagIt OneClick

• Get single click access to all your favorite
  screen capture options.
• Resides on the desktop all the time for quick
  access.
• Just click a profile and capture the content
  its that easy!
• Then, just view in the Preview Window and perfect
  your image.

Output to a variety of places

• Web site
• SnagIt Studio
• Catalog Browser

• Clipboard
• File
• E-mail
• Printer

Powerful Editing Features

• Add artistic edge effects shadows
• Add stamps, highlights, shapes, highlights and
  more.
• Draw lines, arrows even add text!
• Rotate, crop, scale all your images.

Save to over 20 different formats
SnagIt Catalog Browser

• View images as thumbnails
• Batch convert images
• Access manage all your images
• Create a Web page of your images.

• BMP
• JPG
• GIF
• PNG
• TIF
• EPS
• PSD
• ICO
• CAL
• IMG
• RAW

• ICA
• CMP
• PCT
• MSP
• PCX
• RAS
• TGA
• EMF
• WMF
• WFX
• WPG

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New SnagIt Toolbar Add-Ins
With Support for Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and
2003!

• Put SnagIt where you use it most!

• Easily use SnagIt to
• Embed images into presentations and documents.
• Easily import data into spreadsheets.
• Instantly capture any content you find on the
  Internet.
• Embed screenshots into e-mail.
• Embed and link screenshots into FrameMaker
  projects.
• Capture and embed in one click right from the
  applications you use every day.
• A must-have for anyone that uses Microsoft Office
  on a regular basis.

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K-12 Customers

• Rankin School District
• Birdville Independent School District
• Irving Ind School District
• Parma City School District
• Blue Valley School District
• Bay City School District
• Frisco Independent School District
• Macomb Intermediate School District
• Lubbock Independent School District
• Oak Hills Local School District
• Jackson County Intermediate School District
• Cotulla Independent School District
• Milford School District
• Dallas Independent School District
• Clark Lewisville Independent School District

• School District of Philadelphia
• Independent School District of Boise City
• Los Angeles Unified School District
• Vallejo City Unified School District
• Peoria Unified School District
• Irving Ind School District
• Columbia School District
• West Shore School District
• Hillsboro School District 1J
• Concord School District
• Florence School District One
• Palmdale School District
• Brentwood Union School District
• County School District

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Community College Customers

• Glendale Community College
• Grand Rapids Community College
• Coastline Community College
• Henry Ford Community College
• Lansing Community College
• Columbia State Community College
• Houston Community College System
• Austin Community College
• Oklahoma Community College
• San Bernardino Community College
• Garden City Community College
• Tulsa Community College
• Connecticut Community Colleges
• San Jose / Evergreen Community College
• North Shore Community College
• Suffolk County Community College
• Mt. Hood Community College
• Oakland Community College
• Metropolitan Community College

• San Diego Community College
• Seattle Community College
• Houston Community College System
• Sinclair Community College
• Mass Bay Community College
• Houston Community College
• Northern Virginia Community College
• Palm Beach Community College
• Miami-Dade Community College
• Northeast TX Community College
• Laramie County Community College
• North Seattle Community College
• St Louis Community College
• Seminole Community College
• Corning Community College
• Kern Community College
• Illinois Valley Community College
• Iowa Western Community College
• Middlesex Community College

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University Customers

• Penn State University
• The Ohio State University
• UNLV
• University of Wisconsin
• University of Minnesota
• University of Iowa
• University of Florida
• University of Notre Dame
• MIT
• University of California
• University of Michigan
• Boston College
• University of Miami
• UCLA
• University of Connecticut
• Georgetown University
• Providence College
• Rutgers University
• St. Johns University

• Michigan State University
• University of Texas
• Harvard University
• Wharton Business School
• Stanford University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Brown University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Princeton University
• Yale University
• University of Illinois
• University of North Carolina
• University of Virginia
• Wake Forest University
• Seton Hall University
• Syracuse University
• Villanova University

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Thank You!

• Now lets use SnagIt!