Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com this is going to be a really quick
video to show you perhaps what is my favorite technology which is screen caption we're going
to look at particular technology called Snagit and very quickly I'm just going to show you five
reasons why I think in teaching and learning this is one of the most useful technologies that you
can work with sit back watch this video I think you'll be surprised so let's start with using
Snagit for flipping our classes so let's imagine for example that I'm a teacher trainer I'm doing
a teacher training course but I don't want to talk about Bloom's taxonomy in the classroom
I want to do a recording about Bloom's taxonomy and share it with my students now this is a super
short presentation for the sake of this example but what I'm going to do is I'm going to click
on Snagit and I'm going to choose image a video capture because I'm actually going to capture
the window and record myself talking over it and I'm going to click here now I don't have
to go full screen when I record myself talking over a PowerPoint I can just more or less mark
out the area of the screen and then when I'm ready I just click on this button don't forget
it's going to collect my voice as well so it record my voice as well as everything I do on
the computer screen and I'm going to start my presentation good morning ladies and gentlemen
and this is just a very short presentation about Bloom's taxonomy and what I want to look at is
how Bloom's taxonomy is relevant to us in language teaching my name is Russell Stannard and I am from
teacher training videos calm now if we just click over to look at Bloom's taxonomy here you can see
the taxonomy and what we're really talking about when we look at Bloom's taxonomy is that these are
lower order thinking skills and these are higher order thinking skills now I can pause at any time
if I wanted to just pause the recording and then I can go back and continue I won't do any more of
course I could have more pages and click through those I'm going to click on the stop button now
and just play it about that video and there it is all made for me I'm just play it back
see very simple for me to do that now all I need to do is click on file just up here click on file
and click on save as save that as a video on to my computer screen and I can upload it wherever
I want to upload it so I'm going to call this blooms video and I'm going to just save that
onto my desktop click on save just to quickly show you then how that will actually look in the
end there is my video my blooms video we're just going to click on it and it plays back immediately
and I could actually now I could upload that into Moodle into blackboard I could put it on
a website I could upload it into YouTube I could put it into my Google Docs I could do all sorts
of things of it but it's a really quick way of making a video and then being able to share it in
a flipped classroom scenario and of course we've done that with a video but we could have done that
with an image we could have done that with a text etc in the second example we're going to create a
banner now I'm not very creative at all but let me just show you how simple it is to use Snagit
to create a banner okay so one of things I've searched for some images and myself and got one
here that's actually sitting on my website anyway so I'm just going to image capture that by using
Snagit image capture and just click on that and I can mark the area of the image I want and I can
kind of get rid of that space and just have the image like that so I'm just going to click there
and make sure that that's okay so now what I need to do is that immediately comes into the Snagit
editor is I need to stretch that out because I need to make a bit of canvas so I'll just pulled
the canvas out now I'm going to click here and add a color to the canvas and I'm just going to
play it safe now and add white the next thing I need to do obviously is to add something inside
of that so I'm going to click here and going to write some text and it's going to mark the text
area out but I want to use I can always make it bigger or smaller now I've got Arial which I'm
happy with 36 should be okay I'll go with 36 I'm just going to put where I've got the wrong and
just make sure that I've got the I've chosen font and just click again where is Russell presenting
so just add that onto the screen and just going to position that slightly differently so I can
use that button to kind of set the presentation now one of the nice things about Snagit is that
there are these effects that we can make use of so I'm going to click on the effects and the one
that I'm going to choose is this bevel and so I'm just going to click on that now I'm quite
happy with that so all I need to do now is and it's just outside of the screen capture but I'm
just clicking on file save as and I'm just going to save this onto my computer as presenting banner
and save that onto my computer put it in Russell and put it in montage in fact that's not yeah
let's put it there and then click on save now I can save that as lots of different file types
but JPEG is fine click on save I've now got that image and I'm now going to put that image into my
screen now I'm not going to show that but I will show you the results so you can see what it looks
like now I'm looking at that on the screen and I probably could do a few more changes I could just
move that text up slightly so I can always go back and just re-edit it but I just wanted to show you
how simple it was for me to do that and that is one of the great things about Snagit it's really
good for creating banners now this third example is incredible I'm going to show you how you can
use Snagit to image capture a whole page of a website even if that page is scrolling this is
a very special facility and Snagit very simple to do let me show you and it's got some great uses if
you want to capture the content of a whole page in in for example mark some indicators on it perhaps
call-outs or arrows etc now I've got my web page here on the screen you can see it's a scrolling
page so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to Snagit so I'm going to click on Snagit I'm going
to click on image capture but I'm going to choose scrolling window and now what I'm going to do is
click on and you'll see what I actually happen it starts to mark out the area for me here and I can
click on this button I don't have to do anything Snagit will do this for me I click on that Snagit
now begins to scroll through the page for me and now it's going to capture that in an image and it
will open it immediately in the editor and just have to wait a few seconds for that to happen
and there it is on the screen now obviously that is a huge image look at the size of that so at
the moment we can't kind of view the whole image but easily now I could resize that so I'm going
to click on image resize now you can't see that just slightly outside the window I'm just going
to resize that now just take it down to about a thousand pixels it will automatically update
the height as well I'm going to click on apply and now we can see that image the whole of that
page scrolled and I could begin now to augment this image by for example clicking here and add
in say for example an arrow onto something if I wanted to for example highlight a particular area
for example I might want to highlight my blog so then I can click add an arrow and then add a
text that says my blog this is another great thing about Snagit is that you can use it to augment a
picture and we'll look at that in a minute the next example I want to look at is how we can
augment an image that is we can take an image and then we can add arrows we can add text we can add
lots of things onto the screen and then save that enhanced image now I did touch on it in the last
video but I want to look at it as a separate issue just to show you how many things you can actually
do to an image to augment and enhance it very very effective and very quick again now I think
this next examples really surprised you because whenever I present this people are so amazed that
you can do this I've just gone to Google I've searched for the word computers I've chosen
images that I'm allowed to reuse and to modify I'm going to click on a particular image so I'm
going to take this one here I'm now going to go to snag it and I'm going to image capture that so I'm
just going to mark out the area of that that'll do just doing this very quickly ok that will come
straight into Snagit immediately now I've already pointed out that we can augment our picture we can
add arrows onto screen if we want to do that we can for example add text onto the screen if we
want to do that and we can do all sorts of other things but I want to point out something that
is really I think incredibly useful I'm going to click on more and I'm going to come down to this
one called step and I'm going to use step and I'm going to use numbers and I'll do them in blue to
basically turn this into a worksheet so I'm going to say write number one because that's the screen
number two that's the mouse number three that's the computer number four that's the mat number
five that's the cable number six that's the stand number seven that's the keyboard now what I can do
with this image now is immediately save this into a Word file it's very very easy for me to do okay
I'm going to actually click click here just simply click on this button here copy all now you might
not be able to see that it might just be slightly outside of the area that I'm recording but there's
a button here called copy or I'm just going to click on that image now all I'm going to do is
open up word so now we've got word open on the screen and I'm just going to paste that image in
remember I clicked on copy also the image is now copied there it is and now what I can do is add my
for example write the correct vocabulary and I can start number one number two number three number
four number five number six sorry number seven and I've created myself a worksheet in seconds that's
one of the reasons why I love Snagit so much I've saved the best for last this is incredible this
is the thing that I use Snagit the most for I'm going to show you how in seconds I can create a
video and then I can add that video to YouTube and this is literally doing this will only take
me to button clicks to have a video up on YouTube and ready to use I might be exaggerating it might
be three button clicks but let's just show you how easy this is to do so let's imagine for example I
wanted to do a quick tour of my website I wanted to make users aware of all the facilities on my
website and I want to put that onto YouTube so that people can watch it so I'm going to
simply go to snag and I'm going to click on video capture I'm going to click on the capture button
and choose the area and I'm going to kind of mark an area out say about that being that she'll do
fine okay now I'm going to click on the capture button and begin to do my mini recording of me
presenting my website hi my name is Russell stand up this is teacher training videos comm please
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blah blah blah blah blah do the video I'm going to click on the stop button alright now that video is
instantly ready watch this I'm going to click now again this is just outside of your view but
I'm clicking on the button called share and I'm going to click on share on YouTube and I'm going
to click on send to YouTube alright so that's 2 button click so far and now I'm just going to put
introduction to teacher training now you have to when you work at something up on 2 until YouTube
you do need to add a description so I'm just going to copy and paste the same description
in and you do need to add at least one tag I'm going to choose URL because it will send me
back the URL I'm going to set this as unlisted because I don't want to make it public I don't
have to see people to see it and here's the third button click now that video is now being uploaded
onto YouTube but incredibly you'll see what will happen in a minute is that already told
me now URL copied and click ball I can now get that URL so I've just clicked on it and that
means now that that video is already on YouTube so let's go and visit it on YouTube so I'm just
going to open up a new tab I'm going to paste in because remember I've just copied that link
I'm going to paste it in and I'm going to click on enter three button clicks will fall now with
we've actually going to view the video and there is that video and I can play it back
and there it is on the internet straightaway in other words seamlessly I can create a video and
share it on to YouTube and that is the power of Snagit hope you found those videos useful
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