Reflection on camtasia

The uses of technology in education system create effective teaching for teachers and enhance student’s learning. Camtasia is software used by everyone to create or develop video tutorial for their lesson. Before I joined to this college, I have no idea about how to use Camtasia studio but in ICT module our tutor taught us how to used Camtasia studio and produce video ourselves. So I felt very lucky as I got opportunity to learn and explore with Camtasia studio which is very helpful especially for teachers.

Camtasia Studio is software which allows us to create presentations and easily able to record software applications, PowerPoint presentations, and Web camera videos. We can also use the editor to edit the recording and enhance for emphasis. Share crystal-clear videos at any screen size…on Web pages, blogs, CDs, or portable devices like the iPod. I found that Camtasia software is very useful and every teacher should know how to use Camtasia as it will help in the teaching and learning process. We all know that every child possesses different learning styles and ability. Some children learn through using graphics, some may learn through visual representation and some may learn better by watching videos.

In ICT module, our tutor assigned us with ten minutes video tutorial whereby our module tutor gave us the topic. I was given topic on skip counting for class I (mathematics subject). I was anxious about how to go about creating a Video tutorial and was bit worried as well. Then I tried to record in laptop using those features learnt in the classroom and it was quite impressive as all I need to have is a power point presentation on skip counting. As Camtasia, gives an opportunity for me to record the screen whereby I can record my presentation while I am presenting on the slides. After recording the presentation in the Camtasia Recorder, the Camtasia components can be used to modify audio and video displayed as tracks by using the timeline control and object library interface with an integrated preview window. It also allows us to add captions.

Camtasia is one of the software that is used to edit videos and publish the video. It contains different features which help us to modify our video clips to make it more effective, beautiful and attractive.First, we can just record short clips and join the small scenes together using Camtasia to form a full movie. As a future teacher; I can use this concept in the teaching and learning context as teaching-learning materials. Moreover, using videos can also do away with the monotonous classroom teaching and be motivated in learning