What to put in your WCC 235 toolkit:
- OneCard for door access
- Dry erase markers
- Whiteboard erasers
- Mac laptop dongles
How to record video from the WCC 235 document camera onto the classroom computer:
Note: The document camera will not turn on if you have not turned on at least one of the classroom system devices with the touch screen (the monitors or the projector). You must turn on a display source.
From the Mac side:
1) Turn on the teaching station computer.
2) Select the Mac side and log in.
3) Open the document camera drawer, turn on the document camera, and adjust arm as needed. The ring around the power button should be blue when on.
4) On the computer, you have two options, (a) and (b):
a) Open "Quicktime" from the "Applications" folder on the dock at the bottom of the screen.
- Under the "File" menu, select "New Movie Recording"
- Once that window opens, your Mac will automatically choose your internal iSight camera. Toward the right side of the control bar that comes up is a small triangle pointing down. Click on that triangle and a menu will come up giving you your camera options. Select "Samsung Digital Presenter" to switch to the document camera view.
- To start recording, press the red dot in the middle of the control bar.
- To stop recording, press that dot again, now a black square.
- To save your movie, navigate to the "File" menu, then select "Save As".
b) Open "Photo Booth" from the "Applications" folder on the dock at the bottom of the screen.
- Photo Booth defaults to taking still images from the computer's internal iSight camera. On the left side of the control bar, there are three icons in a row. Select film strip icon, the one on the right, to make a movie. To switch to the document camera view, navigate to the Photo Booth "Camera" menu, and select "Samsung Digital Presenter", the name of the document camera.
- To start recording, press the red circle in the middle of the control bar that sort of looks like a camera. The program will give you a countdown before it begins recording.
- To stop recording, press that dot again, now a black square.
- To save your movie, drag and drop the thumbnail of your video to the desired location.
From the Windows side, using Windows Live Movie Maker:
1) Turn on the teaching station computer.
2) On the classroom touchscreen, turn on a display source (projector, monitors, or both).
3) Select the Windows side and log in.
4) Open the document camera drawer, turn on the document camera, and adjust arm as needed. The ring around the power button should be blue when on.
5) Navigate to the "Start" menu, select "All Programs", and then select "Windows Live Movie Maker".
6) Under the "Home" tab, select "Webcam Video".
7) The "Windows Live Movie Maker Options" window will open, asking you to "Select an audio device and webcam".
i. From "Available audio devices:", select "Microphone (Cirrus Logic 4206A (AB 09))" from the drop down options.
ii. From "Available webcams:", select "Samsung Digital Presenter" from the drop down options.
8) To start recording, press the red circle called "Record" in the upper left corner of the window.
9) To stop recording, press the square called "Stop" to the right of the record button, which should now be blue.
10) When you select "Stop", the "Save Video" window should pop up. Select the location where you'd like your video to be saved, and click "Save".
If you've accidentally selected the wrong video and audio options (wrong camera, wrong mic, etc), how do you get that options screen to pop up again?
1) If you are in the video recording window, select the red X called "Cancel".
2) Click on the blue rectangle in the upper left of the application windows that has a file-like icon on it. It's the one to the left of the "Home" tab.
3) Select "Options", with a checklist icon.
4) Select "Webcam", and you're there!