Hi this is Russell Stannard from Teacher training videos.com what I'm going to do today is show you
how we can use Camtasia in education to make our screen capture recordings much
more engaging I'm going to show you a couple of tricks of what we can do when we've made a
screen capture video brought it into Camtasia and then there's a few tricks that we can do
while editing that can really help to make our videos a lot more engaging let's start
now what a lot of people don't realize is that once you've done a screen capture and you bring
it into Camtasia you can very easily cut the heat video and then add questions in so instead of just
playing a long video which maybe five or six minutes where you're not at any time engaging
your learners what you can do really quickly is bring the video in add some breakpoints in the
video some cuts in the video then pull the video apart and add a question in I'm going to show you
how to do this here I've got a screen capture that I've made and this screen captures about
how to use Google Sites and you can see it's quite a long video and obviously there's me talking and
taking people through the use of Google Sites and how it works and let's just take any point
imagine at this point here would be a good break and a good point to add in some questions what I
can do is making sure I've got both the video and the sound file selected together I simply click
on this button here which splits the video at that point now what I can do now is move the video out
and go up to the annotations and then I'm going to just do this in black and white just to make it
really simple I'm gonna drag that onto the screen don't worry about the fact that it's bigger we can
sort that afterwards and here I'm going to type in a question so I've just typed a question onto the
screen so the nice thing now that's gonna happen is and I'm just gonna bring the zoom out a little
bit just grab those two parts of the video just drank that down there and then bring those back
in so now what we've got is a video that comes to a certain point and obviously you would choose
the point well where you want to make the cut nan a question comes onto the screen and then
the video continues now that's quite nice and we can even make that more professional if we go to
transitions and what we'll do is we'll use the cube rotation so I'm going to select everything
on the screen so it's going to select a whole lot and just drop the cube rotation onto the screen
and what hopefully will happen in fact I'm gonna have to put that onto there because that's on the
audio file at the moment I'll need to just drag that down to the one below so let me just come
back and do that again so I just bring that down to there and now do the cube rotation that will
work you can't do cube rotation obviously on there we are to put that one in there not that
one now now why have I've done that let's have a quick look if I come now we've got the video
which we can play and obviously it's got sound etc then we've got the question come on to the
screen and then after a while that question will come off the screen and the video will continue
that's really professional and that means now that you can just make your videos much more engaging
by editing them and adding in these questions at various sections through the video and it's
something that's recommended a lot because it's a not a good idea just for the viewing to be a
passive activity on the part on the students I really hope you found that useful lots more free
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is Russell's ideas blog and in there I simply provide specific ideas that you can use in the
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