Screencasting with Camtasia Studio Festival of Learning October 8, 2012 LGSUHSD Debra Troxell

What is screencasting? Capturing your voice and the screen of the computer to teach lessons Use for: o Future student reference for tricky topics o Flipping your classroom o Enhancement of ideas presented in class How do I use it? o For CS: students watch video to learn initial information; they post a response to the associated forum; some questions I answer on the forum; common questions I address in class; in-class completion and review of what I used to assign for homework o For math: tricky topics for future reference

Examples of screencasts with various starting points Starting point for moviePosted examples PowerPoint, just narratinghttp://youtu.be/PWG3QT2OTPA PowerPoint, lots of animation (also shows mouse with highlighting effect), shows bookmarks Movies and images taken with a camera, tied together with narration Course specific electronic source (I have shown some computer science code running). Also, I bring in images from Paint Word, just narratinghttp:// utu.be Using tablet to write actual lesson

Making your first screencast A. Film your screen 1. Pull up Camtasia Studio 2. Choose “Record the Screen” 3. Pick a size for your selection (their default ratio of 3:4 looks good on most phones, computers, iPads 4. Hit “rec” to record 5. Hit stop when you are done B. Edit your recording 6. A window pops up - choose “Save and Edit” – give it a descriptive name. Note that this only makes a *.camrec file. This is the raw material you use to edit into a project. You then need to produce your project to make a movie you can upload. 7. The editing window appears where you make your project C. Make and upload your movie 8. Produce and Share 9. upload to youtube.com or screencasting.com

A quick demo Adding: o external media – a picture and an image o voice narration o call outs o transitions o zoom

Tips If you say something wrong, pause for several seconds, start again. The several second pause makes it easy to edit out. Use zoom ins to draw attention to part you want them to focus on. I always make a simple file with my links and put in same folder as my mp4 files If you are contemplating true flipping, hold the kids accountable by making them – Post to a forum – Complete notes you have pre-written – Answer a question on a Google spreadsheet

Make them available to your students Screencast.com is free if you purchase Camtasia Studio benefit: fancier stuff with flash drawback: can’t organize them very well – can’t have folders within folders Youtube: if you have a gmail account, you already have a youtube account benefit: very accessible on different platforms – phones, iPads, computers drawback: no flash (so no bookmarks) On both of the above places, students have easy access to your other movies.

Helpful Links Camtasia’s Techsmith tutorials – Windows: camtasia-8.htmlhttp:// camtasia-8.html – Mac: mac-current.htmlhttp:// mac-current.html Resources for different approaches and levels of “commitment”, both in effort and money –