Me: Well, Mom, it is saying the print spooler is offline.
Mom: What the hell does that mean? You know I don’t use computers like you, your brother and your Father! I just want to print!
Me: Well you have to turn the print spooler on.
Mom: …And how do I do that?
Me: Here, let me show you.
Mom: Write down the steps so I can do it when you go away to school!
Me: Alright.

….Yet, somehow, that piece of paper has gone missing and I STILL get asked to help fix the computer! Well, I have my final solution…A video to show her how to fix the spooler so she can print! It will forever be on the internet and my YouTube, but I was also sure to send her a copy as well!(Since I know she will never go ON YouTube lol)

So this video assignment is called Make a Tutorial for you Mom. So minus the ‘you’ not being ‘your’, it is pretty self-explanatory! Right…? So to begin, I had NO idea how to record a screen capture so that I could share my screen with video. (TGFG – Thank Goodness For Google) I stumbled onto this gem called Camtasia. It is a video editing software that will also let you record your screen for sharing! It is not free, but I did get a free 30-day trial which was more than enough! Recording my screen was the easy part. But that is okay, because TechSmith(creators of Camtasia) have a lot of tutorial video to help with editing. So of course I took advantage of learning how to zoom to specific parts of the screen, creating title and credits, and eventually placing my audio. I did NOT find this program as user-friendly as Windows Movie Maker, but I forged through. I again recorded my audio in Audacity, exported it as MP3 and opened it into Camtasia.

So, Mom, are you ready for the last tutorial on how to fix the print spooler? Good.