Recording PowerPoint presentations with the presenter's audio and video footage is very important for use in education and business. PresentationTube project allows teachers to create and use video presentations in a wide variety of contexts that can enhance learner's interests in the Arab region. It helps teachers clearly identify the main points of a topic using their own language in audio and video formats. Teachers can incorporate multiple types of media formats (e.g., diagram, photo, drawing, sound & video) that cannot be easily integrated together into one single medium, like ordinary video clips and computers software. PresentationTube network provides video content on demand to students, so they can choose when and where to use the material and can spend as long or as little time on each learning activity.
This paper describes the technology and methodology used in the development and usability evaluation of a network, named PresentationTube, to help faculty members at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, produce and share quality video presentations for their students. The network offers a desktop application for recording video presentations and an online platform to share presentations online. The recorder allows faculty members to narrate and annotate PowerPoint slides and synchronize a variety of visual aids, including webcam footage, whiteboard, drawing board, and web browser. The platform uses YouTube API to upload and integrate videos with scrollable slide thumbnails. Quantitative and qualitative techniques including, quality of video presentation rubric, usability questionnaire, instructors’ interview and students’ perspectives to video presentations questionnaire were implemented to collect data and report on the usability of the network and effectiveness of video pres...
