Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com going to do a video today on using
Camtasia and education and I'm going to show you a couple of tricks of how we can record
a PowerPoint slide but also include ourselves on the presentation just in fact like you're
seeing at the moment with me on the screen but I'm going to show you a few extra tricks about
different ways that we can situate the webcam within the presentation and I hope you find
this interesting can really help to make the videos more engaging when your students are
watching them so let's get straight into it so hopefully you already realize that you can use
Camtasia to record yourself talking over almost anything that's on your computer screen in fact
on everything so you could record yourself talking over a PowerPoint presentation or talking over an
image or talking over a document we're gonna do an example with a PowerPoint slide I've got a
couple of slides here on the screen I'm going to open up Camtasia and I'm gonna click on if
I can open up Camtasia in 2018 I'm gonna click on the record button here and then what I'm gonna do
is simply mark the area on the screen that I want to record so you can see the recorder here at the
top of the screen and I'm gonna click here on select area and I'm gonna just mark this area
here around the recorder so that's the area that I'm gonna be recording but I'm also going to turn
the webcam on because I want to record myself as well so I'm going to click here so that I'll
actually be on the presentation so now I'm just gonna record a couple of pages or couple of the
slides so I'll start with the first one with clicks on and says okay so in a start good
morning ladies and gentlemen and today we're going to talk about the key technologies that impacts on
teaching and learning now I'm just gonna click on the pause button s jump to the second slide
I'm going to carry on the first thing I want to look at today is how we can use technologies
to help our students particularly in areas like reflections giving presentations self evaluations
and doing explanations okay I'm just going to stop it there I've done two slides now remember I've
kept my self in this present presentation when I click on the stop button it immediately allows
there I am in the video now the only problem is at the moment is that maybe I don't want to
be there maybe in this presentation I'd like to put myself in another position on the screen so
I'm going to show you how we can do that so what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on save and
edit so I click on that button now we're just going to save this as a test video and put it
on to our desktop so that's the raw file that I'm recording and now what's going to happen is it's
going to open up the editor it's gonna bring that recording in it puts it straight onto the
timeline for me and I can play that video now good morning ladies and gentlemen and today you
can see here that I'm on the screen here on the right hand side now actually and the best thing
to do here is to click here and to lock this one because we're not concentrating on the video so
I'm gonna lock that so that we've got just this webcam here and we can actually move that webcam
around and place it on the screen wherever we want so if you want to have the webcam here for
example then we can do that so now when we played a recording think about the key technologies I've
come up much bigger now I'm not actually even limited you know I can shift that to any other
part of the screen now it is possible as well to even move the webcam so that in different
slides you're in different places now the only thing that you would need to do in that case
is find the place where the slide jumps from 1 to 2 so I'm just going to quickly play it there
and it happens there so if I just come back to the fight move it back I'm just trying to find
here the last pixel ok so now I'm going to do is I'm going to cut the video at that point so
selecting let me just unlock that I'm just going to select both those and cut them there and the
reason I'm doing that is because now where I place the camera in the first one and where I place the
camera in the second one can be in two completely different places and even different sizes so now
when I played a video the first part the cameras at the bottom layer and then in a second the first
thing I want to lose so you can even do that if you cut the video up so it's great in terms of
the ability to be able to work the video have yourself in the webcam in the presentation and
decide exactly where you want to be on the screen now you might ask yourself why would you do that
well you might do that because sometimes it's easier because you've got the presentation and
you've got space here whereas other times you may find it's easier to have yourself on the screen
on the left hand side again depending on the space and depending on the content of your presentation
I really hope you found that useful please come to teacher training video calm if you want more
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