Camtesia

We sometimes use video in our classroom to enhance teaching and learning. It motivates the students in learning as it boosts their interest. Using videos helps the teachers as well as students to break down the complex and abstract ideas. It makes the ideas clearer when taught using ICTs.  However, the videos that we use are not in our context.  There are chances that we may not get the video that we need. Therefore, Camtesia 6.0 provides beginners to create our own video tutorials which are related our own context.

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As soon as we click on the Camtesia, we will see the following features as shown in the figure1. We can record the screen, power point, add voice narration and import media. The advantages of using Camtesia over window media player are we can record the power point and screen. There are several ways to create video. We can first capture the video in other camera and use import file to upload in the Camtesia for edition. We can also prepare power point slide on the topic you want to create. After that use either record power point or screen features to record your power point. The difference is in record power point features, we can only record power point but record screen can record every activity on the screen. Moreover, record screen features can record the screen activity as well as the recorder’s face.  Once you are done, we have to save the video and the reopen the Camtesia and import the file for edition.

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Once you are inside, you will see the features as shown in the figure. 2 You can use this feature to make you video more tuned. Examples;  use ‘remove noise’  to remove the unnecessary noise that is made from the back when we are recording, add transition for swift movement from one seen to another,  add background sounds, etc. Finally produce the video. This is exactly what I have done on Video tutorial Camtesia. First, I have prepared, presentation slide and recorded the screen. After that I have, imported the file and edited the video.

my tutorial

With the information we received in ICT class on Camtesia and the assignment we have done, I can now create a simple video tutorial. The knowledge and the skill I have learnt will not end within the four walls of a classroom.  Rather I will always keep with me and make use of it whenever and where ever possible. I will make learning more joy and fun by creating video in our context.