Screencast

This is the first time ever in my six years of teaching that I am unavailable to teach due to personal reasons. The physician will discharge me from hospital the day after tomorrow, so I was absent from class today and will still be absent tomorrow and the day after. Instead of asking for a substitute instructor, I have decided to record screencasts for the lectures and asked my TAs to play the videos in class. This is also the first time I have ever recorded screencasts, and I really find the experience interesting and appealing. I feel like a teacher of an online course! I used .Windows Media Encoder to record the screencasts. It's nice, except that it may produce a glitch if the video is too long. After finishing recording a 1-hour screencast for the CS410 class, I've just realized that I had plugged the microphone wire into the headphone jack, so no audio was recorded. What the heck! Anyway, it's good lesson to learn.