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Tuesday, August 27, 2002   Volume 3, Issue 5  
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TechSmith Products Aid Educators and Students
Special Offer Ends September 30th

TechSmith has a range of practical software applications used to capture and manipulate computer screen images, voice, and video from Windows desktops. The SnagIt and Camtasia software enable users to enhance and transform the captured material and create streaming content for Internet broadcasts, Web sites for sharing information, and for presentations.
 
Educators… start off the school year by satisfying both your expense account and your drive to maintain an innovative classroom.  Give your students the best possible learning experience.
 
Students… automatically get that extra technological edge you need to succeed. Take advantage of the student discount while you’re still a student.   
 
 
Videoscreen recorder and video editor
 
With Camtasia, you can record videos of on-screen activity from any application.  Just record a screen, window, or region with a single click.  If desired, you can add explanatory text, drawings and cursor highlights. To further assist the learning process, you can narrate the video.  You can edit the video and export it in a variety of formats--burn it on a CD, place it on a Web site, or save it to a file.
 
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a computer teacher demonstrating a function, an English teacher showing a PowerPoint presentation or an engineering professor running an online classroom--Camtasia is useful for every educational method.  By showing a process rather than just telling someone how to complete a task, you provide students with a more valuable learning experience.
 
And students--imagine how you can impress your teachers with your professional-quality presentations and projects!  Camtasia is so easy to learn, that after just a few minutes of experimenting, you’ll be able to create, edit and share a video of onscreen activity.  Enhance your classroom--or your grade--by purchasing Camtasia for your school year.  
 
 
Multimedia Windows screen capture utility
 
SnagIt is the only screen capture software that captures images, text, and video from your Windows desktop.  From the smallest icon to the entire scrolling screen, you can capture any image you want.  And since you can choose exactly what you capture, you can leave behind any section of the image you don’t want. 
 
SnagIt offers so many capturing, organizational, and editing options that its capabilities clearly extend far beyond just taking screenshots. You can capture images from scanners and digital cameras, and you can also use Web Capture to simultaneously take multiple images off the Internet.  As an added benefit, the SnagIt Studio Annotation Editor is included, so you can mark up images with arrows and explanatory text.
 
Since Web sites now factor so much into the learning process, SnagIt’s AutoScroll serves both teachers and students.  With AutoScroll, you can capture an entire Web page as a single image, instead of copying screen by screen. 
 
If you need any image for use in a presentation, Web site, or printed class material--it’s so easy to capture with SnagIt.     
 
EXAMPLES:
 
How are educators and students using SnagIt and Camtasia?  

 
* A math professor records his entire class--both video of him solving problems on a projected computer screen and audio of the class discussion--and distributes the lecture on CDs to all his students.

* A high school teacher uses SnagIt to capture screen images of online courses and sites to create PowerPoint and Web-based presentations.

*A junior high teacher records problems being solved step by step on a whiteboard, and adds his voice to help explain the solution.  He then posts them on the class Web site.

*An educator embeds screen videos into PowerPoint presentations--they’re then available year after year.
A professor includes an instructional CD with his/her book, so students can actually see the written procedures in motion.

*Engineering students use SnagIt to capture pictures of their designs to use in their final reports.

*Computer students use SnagIt’s AutoScroll to capture entire Web sites for use in projects.

*College students use Camtasia to record narrated PowerPoint presentations, and then show them in class.
 
 
How to Order/Prices:
 
To get information about Camtasia or the Camtasia/SnagIt bundle and for information on how to order, please call or email Stephanie Staley, the collegebuys.org sales representative at 1-800-517-3001 ext. 196 or s.staley@techsmith.com. The promotional pricing below is good through September 30, 2002.
 
 
Camtasia
Promotional Price
Regular Price
   1-4 users
$45.00/user
$97.47/user
   5-9 users
$29.25/user
$64.25/user
   10-99 users
$24.30/user
$52.25/user
   100-499 users
$16.20/user
$35.25/user
   500-1,999 users
$12.15/user
$26.25/user
   2,000+ users (unlimited)
$22,500
$48,750
 
Camtasia/SnagIt bundle
Promotional Price
Regular Price
1-4 users
$51.00/user
$110.47/user
5-9 users
$34.20/user
$74.25/user
10-99 users
$27.00/user
$58.25/user
100-499 users
$19.40/user
$42.25/user
500-1,999 users
$14.80/user
$32.25/user
2,000+ users (unlimited)
$28,560
$61,750
 

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