Camtasia as Teaching and Learning

 Working in Camtasia 8

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There are certain advantages of using Camtasia. (Capturing options) Camtasia can be used to capture screen recordings from the specific area on screens, a specific window, the whole screen, or from programs such as PowerPoint. all the materials within Camtasia are divided into a timeline. Developers can insert a Camtasia recording file into the timeline by selecting and dragging it from the clip bin, which contains the sorted files. the various types of media are separated into tracks within the timeline.
It can different features like quizzing, transition, audio, and many more. It is like the miracle that changes our normal work into a beautiful one. 

I am a person who is fond of making visual arts. Working with Camtasia equipped me with a variety of skills that will be very essential for the future. To integrate ICT in teaching and learning, using Camtasia is the most important method to teach our students any lesson. Through Camtasia, I learned numerous animation, transition techniques and I could know various features to make the video a comprehensive one.
However, I faced lots of challenges while using Camtasia as it was my first time using a hand on experience. Sometimes, it just wastes my time as I need to redo the whole edition again. I felt like puking as it is a challenging technology for me as a beginner.
But at last, I knew how to use all the features given in Camtasia and I can also create a simple video now. 

There are certain steps while working with Camtasia.

1.  To  Capture ready-made PowerPoint

2.      1.  Open Camtasia studio

3.      2. Record screen/PowerPoint

4.      3. Open PowerPoint (view the slideshow)

5.      4. Adjustment

6.      5.  Start recording

7.      6. Click save and edit

8.      7.  Publish

Steps to record voice narration and record live video

1.      1. Add menu

2.      2. Click voice narration and webcam

3.      3. Start recording

4.      4. After you are done with recording, press f10 to stop

5.      5. Save the file

 I did video tutorial about the " Vocabulary related to their immediate surrounding" for the grade PP English. I used simple language to deliver the content. I used power point and did live recording in Camtasia. I used pictures and words to describe each vocabulary words.  Children will be able to use those words every day while speaking and writing. They will also learn to say the new vocabulary and add up their knowledge. I will show this video tutorial to kids after I introduced them the topic. Right after  introducing the topic and talk about it a little, then I will let children watch the video tutorial. After watching they can practice saying the word and copy the names of each word in their book. The video below is the sample or outcome from Camtasia studio. If you have trouble loading the video click on this link; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I7ZgnT1aVt_Pap1ihgnjt4gJtIuo0MNt/view?usp=sharing

Camtasia is an effective tool for teaching and learning. It is one of the successful tool for integrating ICT in the classroom. 

 

If you still have doubt regarding Camtasia, click

1. How to use Camtasia Studio 8

2. How to edit in Camtasia Studio 8

3. Camtasia Studio overview and tutorial

Canva as ICT Tool in Teaching and Learning.

I have already talked about Powerpoint in my earlier post. Now here, I will talk about how I designed my teaching and learning material using Canva. I designed in Powerpoint first and later edited the video in Canva.  Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. This app includes templates for users to use. Designs in Canva include text, icons, photos or illustrations. All of these need to be combined in a way that is visually appealing. 

The material here I designed using Canva is on parts of flowers, science subject of class IV.  It will be used in the teaching process after introducing the topic and when introducing and explaining the parts of the flower. Each child will be able to see the labeled parts clearly and correctly shown. They can also understand it well because it is said that students learn the most from graphics, visuals and sounds.  It can also be used when giving students activity to draw flowers and labeling the parts.  

After teaching, in my case I would let children copy the diagram in their book and label the parts of the flower correctly in their book. In the process of copying, they can notice each part and help in adding up to their knowledge. 

If you want to add a photo to your design, using one of Canva’s frames, you can find these under ‘’elements’’ in the side panel. Canva can help us to create compelling visual content.  If you face difficulty in designing, try playing with size, color, and placement in order to see what works best in Canva.  Canva brings your ideas to life in a minute. It provides many features and also saves time.