If you want to show your students how to solve a problem
-- or you're trying to literally draw their
attention onto parts of a presentation --
You're going to need a pen, of some kind, and maybe a little
bit of hardware. This video is going to show you four
different ways for Mac users how to be able to draw
in a way that you would have done normally in a whiteboard.
And now you can do with your computer. There's going
to be multiple sections to this video -- multiple options.
So feel free to jump around to the part that's most
relevant to you. We're going to start with something
really simple which is paper and pen. Just put that
down on your desk somewhere. Use a pen that is thick.
So that is easy for the students to see, put your phone
onto some kind of stand or mini tripod or lean it
against something so that it can essentially see
the paper when you turn on your camera. Turn on the camera.
Go from what's normally photo-mode into video-mode.
Adjust the paper as necessary. And hit "Record" now
From here just work out - and talk out - the thing that
you normally would do. The good news is that your
phone usually has a pretty darn good microphone
associated with it. When you done working out your
equation go ahead and hit stop. Then you'll go
and take a look at the video. You can preview it, if
you need to. In the middle of the screen
is an "Up" arrow that will give you an extra option. And
then we'll go to airdrop. Airdrop is going to allow
you to select your laptop and then to send that over
to the downloads folder on your Mac, where you can
take it from there and put it into Camtasia.
Coming up a little bit later: I'll show you how to edit that video.
But, for now congrats, we at least got our
first recording done of camera and of drawing. It just
didn't happen to be drawn on the screen, but on the phone.
If you have a webcam, you can use it to record yourself
working out an equation on pencil and paper.
If, I've got a really big thick pen and some paper, you just
might need to either have a webcam that you can rotate
or move around or have it on a stand or a little tripod.
But if I've got mine here on a on the back of my computer,
I can simply turn it downwards. And now using Camtasia
I can record my webcam and my audio. I don't need to
record the screen. And I can work out my equation.
[pretending to record a calculation] "If A=6 and B=7 and C8, then I can...."
and I can work it out. When I'm done, I drag the
recording to the timeline. You'll probably need
to rotate the video and possibly scale. I will get
into the editing in just a bit. If you have one of the
new iPads and the apple pencil, you can make your
presentation really come to life for your students.
You can help them pay attention better...
stay focused and you can draw on your iPad like you could
on a whiteboard. So let's start with a simple calculation
first, you'll need a drawing program to start.
There are a lot of good ones out there. For this purpose,
I'm going to use OneNote. It's a free program
that works just great. We're going to want to record
what we're doing in this program here. So first thing
is connect the iPad to the Mac. It may ask you on the Mac,
"do you trust the iPad?" and on the iPad, "do you trust this Mac?"
And once you make that happy union, you should
be good to go. Because then from within Camtasia
you can go to the recorder and say, you know, I don't
really need to record my screen. But, I would like to record
my iPad - now that would be kind of cool. You won't need
your webcam for this but I would suggest that
you record the very best audio source that you have
if that option is your MacBook Pro microphone, then great.
if you got a USB microphone even better. So I'll choose that.
I'm going to hit to Start Recording.
Now, the last thing I want to tell you before we start recording is...
Just relax. We can edit things out. Take a big deep breath
and and then we'll begin. [pretending to record a calculation] All right, folks. Let's
work out the Pythagorean theorem. Right. Hold on.
There we go. Now we're getting into the pythagorean theorem
It's A squared plus B squared equals
C squared. And of course that is important when you're
working out a 90 degree triangle here and you got
A and you got B and you got C being the hypotenuse
Now... I could keep going with that but for our purposes, I could
either stop my recording here or - as I am want to do -
I actually would like to show you guys PowerPoint
here. So, Let's go into PowerPoint. And I've just
got a handful of slides here. This one happens to
be out 3D modeling. And when I go into presenter mode here,
I can go -- Excuse me: I mean from the slideshow mode.
I'm going to go from the start. And up at the top,
I've got my pen and this is going to allow me to underscore
things as I go. I can slide forward and back to
get to the new slides and in pen mode. Once again,
I can circle things that are important. One of the things
that is really important is, let's say you
got bullet points on your slide. It's fantastic.
If you can just like hit check marks as if, "Done! Yeah....
"Talked about that. Great underline this point over here.
Circle this point make a connection between
points 1 2 and 3." That kind of thing draws your students in
and lets them know what you're talking about.
The worst thing you could do is say "This is really important."
And they're not seeing you. They are not seeing your mouse.
They are not seeing anything and they don't know
what it is that you're talking about, which is
"really important." And that feeling... is what causes anxiety
among the students. So let's just use the pen liberally.
Draw. Underscore. Highlight as much as you possibly can.
And the students will be absolutely the better for it.
Now when we are done with this the cool thing is,
I don't have to do anything on the iPad. You go back
over to the mac and on my screen, I've got the [Camtasia] recorder
I hit stop recording. It shows up directly inside
of Camtasia. It's already here in the preview window
and there's a whole bunch of different ways. I can edit ity.
I'll show you that in just a second. But first,
let me show you how to do all this fancy drawing...
if you don't have a fancy Apple pen. We'll do that with a Wacom tablet next.
If all you've got is a mouse and
a normal computer -- a Mac or Windows computer.
But this [mouse] is the only thing you have to quote-unquote draw with
during your presentation. You can still use
it to underscore to sort of highlight or even draw a jaggedy
lines on something. It's better than nothing.
I did one better. I got a graphics tablet here from
Amazon has about $50 and it's going to allow me to
do some equations. It's also going to allow me to
spice up the presentation some really help the students
to learn better than if it was just a blank presentation
or just kind of a standard presentation. Let's take a look at it
First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to start
a recording and I'll record the full-screen. I'll
record my microphone. if I've got a USB microphone
then choose that. If not, just use the MacBook Pro microphone.
Whatever you got... choose it! Hit the recording.
let's now get into a drawing program are there are
lots of drawing programs. OneNote is a free application.
The only thing is for whatever reason like when I
tried to draw my letters here, they don't look great
and I don't have the worst handwriting so, maybe, its
just the way this Graphics tablet works with OneNote.
But all the same I went to a different one called Sketchbook
and Sketchbook does look significantly better.
So now that I've got my equation that I'm ready to
record I will simply do something like a little clap.
Because that'll put a spike on my timeline which you'll
see in a second. And now I just start my recording
for real. Alright everybody. Let's take a minute
to appreciate the Pythagorean theorem. Its got A.
Its got B. Its got C & C is going to line up right over
here. Now if what we're saying is a is 4 and B is 3 that
means we're saying that we're going to calculate
4 squared + 3 squared so that 16 + and I can obviously
keep working out that presentation and it's just
like I'm working at the Whiteboard. I think it's
a great way to be able to explain stuff... For fifty bucks.
It's not bad. It's getting better though when you
get into a slideshow, so while I could stop the recording,
let's say that I've got a slide deck that I want to
run people through. I'm going to hit play from start
and these tools down here are going to be really helpful
for me. I can go through my slides and then I can pull
up the pain slide and I'm going to use my pen. And here's
where I can say that one of the challenging things
about doing 3D drawings is that some of the very small
details don't always turn out so well when you doing
it in real life, if you go to the next one, you can find
out how important it is to get the details right when
you go through the mold process. You can see little
elements here that are going to be really hard for
you to put through the 3D scanner, etc. Etc. Etc.
Alright, it's time to edit this recording. I'm going
to hit Escape here in PowerPoint is going to ask me
do I want to keep the annotations. Usually I don't
I'll hit discard. We're going to go over here to the
menu up here and stop our recording. It's going to
bring it into Camtasia and now it's time to teach
you how to do a little bit of editing inside of Camtasia.
All right, let's do a little bit of basic editing
inside of Camtasia. As I said, it's beginning to
relax to pause to not feel stressed when you're making
the recording. So it's possible that these recordings
maybe you started without doing or saying anything
and what you can do is you can grab the edge of these
recordings and drag them until you start talking
and doing your thing. It's also possible that you
might have clapped or snapped in the recording and
that would create a little Spike on the timeline.
You can just trim right past that and you know, I'm
pretty much where to start. When you then hit the play
button, you can then hear the talking and the voice
over as you go you do the same thing here at the end.
The other thing I would recommend: On pretty much any
recording that used the... Camtasia recorder
on your Mac or your PC is to go and change the cursor
size. Like, right here in this video. It may be a little
bit hard to see exactly where your drawing.
Of course, you can see the drawing when it shows up.
But where your mouse is right now... may be hard to say. So the properties
for this recording has audio it has video and audio
properties and mouse properties or cursor properties.
So I usually go and bring that up 200 - 300% make it really
big as so that is really obvious what people are doing
if you want to go even further you can go into the cursor
effects and maybe even like drag a highlight on there,
so that is even more obvious. You want to get
a little bit of bonus points? Go ahead and choose a
color that works for your college or university.
And that you can get some I can get a nice look that
goes along with that. Okay. So we've trimmed the
beginning we've trimmed the end. We've also created
highlight for the cursor which is helpful. Some
of the other things you might need to do is let say
that in your recording you use your phone and it was
upside-down not a problem in the properties here.
We'll just rotate that one 180 degrees and that's
good to go. The other thing you can do with this recording
is you can scale it up. Now, you can do that by grabbing
the corners and a growing it that way. You can also
use this slider here and scale it up that way that
can be done for both camera recordings as well as
screen recording. Its possible, for example, in this recording
that we did of the iPad that made me really
don't need to see all the tools of the students will
need to see the tools up there because you don't use them
choose between the Pens, which means frankly that
they will see more and more of your actual screen
drawing as you provide more real estate for that.
Last thing I'm going to tell you to do is - as a rule of thumb -
your project settings should probably be 1080p.
Which is a fancy way of saying, "its the right size for YouTube (and video in general)
if you go that route, then you've got some nice videos
on the timeline. Probably don't... If you have multiple
recordings. You probably don't want a lot of extra
space in their best way to get rid of all that space
is I click on the magnet on that track and it brings
it all together and now you're ready to share and
just my suggestion is go to a local file and it'll
give you an mp4 file and that'll be properly sized.
You can put that anywhere you want. Thank you very
much for watching this video and for trying to draw
the students attention than to help them to learn
as much as absolutely possible from you. I hope these
tools are helpful and I wish you the best of success.
Thanks so much.