Reflection on Camtesia

Now a day the students being digital natives, they spend most of their time with technology. The technologies have become the necessity of all age. We use technology form the time we open our eyes in the morning till we go to bed. Therefore, the time has come for the teachers to change the teaching pedagogy. Teachers should be able to teach the way children learn. One of the most effective ways of teaching and engaging students actively in the learning is through video lesson. I have downloaded tens of videos from the YouTube to be integrated in my lessons but now with the help of camtasia, I can make my own video tutorial.

Camtasia is video editing software for creating video tutorial by screen recording or recording the PowerPoint presentation. Camtasia helps us to record our screen and voice as we demonstrate applications on the computer. Camtasia not only helps us record our screen, but it also helps us to easily cut and edit the video, import other videos and audio files. Other constructive features that we can play with are multiple transition option, voice narration, zoom and pan effect, callout, title, captions. In addition to that we can enhance and improve the audio quality of our voice recording with the use of audio enhancement. We can even record audio or music at the same time.

 Once we are done with editing, camtasia helps us to easily share our video by exporting into any format we like as mp4 video file, PowerPoint, YouTube, goggle drive etc. With the use of camtasia we learnt some basic video editing lessons like how to import files, trimming of videos, adding titles, adding transitions etc. we also learnt on how to make video tutorials etc.  with the help of camtasia we can record child’s learning and document it for the assessment.

One of the greatest acheivent I have achieved from this module is creating my own video tutorial. Now I donot have to spend so much time in looking for the relevant videos from the youtube to be integrated in the lesson beacuse I can create my own video tutorial anytime and anywhere. Moreover I don't have to worry about the children having missed the information I have taught in the class because through the video tutorial the children can pause, rewind, forward, stop, play and watch it at anytime and anywhere.

The video tutorial I have created was on the Poem Jimmy Jet and His TV set By Shel Silverstein.  I found it a bit challenging at the begining since it was my first time. ihad to re do it for more than ten times but as I went on I enjoyed doing it because i felt like i was professor recording a video. It was not as challening as I think it is.

Therefore, instead of downloading the videos from the online or YouTube, I urge all the educators to use Camtasia.