Recently I attended an Emerging Technologies Symposium for Interactive Teaching and Learning where I was introduced to a product called Camtasia. At the conclusion of the presentation, my interest and curiosity had been peeked to the point where I simply needed to check into this product myself.

Camtasia Studio is a complete software that will help you record, edit and publish anything you need to have put in a video. Created to work with Windows 2000, XP or Vista this software will complete your video program. It also has audio capabilities that will only enhance your video for the perfect presentation.

If you need to have video readily available for a presentation, class, study session or simply to share with friends…then you need Camtasia Studio. You can create, post and file demos, articles, training materials and presentations with ease. A full view of product features can be found here.

In some instances, it is very common for individuals to find that their videos don't look or sound just as the creator wanted them to. With Camtasia you don’t have to worry. You can format in many different files such as MP3, iPod, QuickTime and Abode Flash just to name a few. And, since it works with PowerPoint it’s a breeze to check out what it looks and sounds like before making your final choice.

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Based in Johannesburg, The Times newspaper now offers almost totally uncensored posts from a handful of selected bloggers. They call these writers blogumists. They call the postings blogumns. Here's a link to these posts which The Times describes as 'Exclusive daily musings written by bloggers for The Times.'  Here is a link to The Time's home page.

If you can't beat 'em, let 'em join you?

Having been a newspaper reporter once upon a time long ago, I wonder how the professional journalists at The Times feel about these citizen journalists? What happens if one of their blogumists writes a post critical of the print media? Are the writings of these blogumists fact-checked? As a blogumist for The Times, is the blogger afforded all the same protections generally associated with newspaper reporters? Is the newspaper liable for what it prints under the byline of a blogger? Since The Times says, "…these blogumns are left unedited 98.999% uncensored," what sort of copy represents the 1.001% of unacceptable content?

By the way, I'm guilty here of asking questions that I often get, and which I tend to categorize as just another rock in my shoe. Social media is supposed to be a little open ended and free-wheeling. If we wait around for everything to get figured out, we'll never get anything started.

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