If you want to engage your students and keep their
attention, it probably isn't a better way of doing it,
then using a pen. Not only can you draw out equations,
but you can literally draw the attention of the students
where you want them to be. They will know exactly what
you're talking about and they will never be left
to ask, "Wait! What what bullet point was she talking about?"
Where was he when he said that?" No,
they will learn better. They will engage more and the quality of
your videos is just going to go up and up and up.
I'm going to show Windows users a handful of ways in which
you can draw on the screen or on an iPad or even on pen
and paper - to be able to draw out things for your students.
Feel free to jump around in this video. In the end,
I'm going to show you how to edit all of it inside of Camtasia.
But for now, let's jump into probably the most popular
one, which is drawing directly on the computer.
Everybody that I'm talking to has a computer and I'm guessing
you probably have a mouse. Whether it's this kind
of mouse or it's this kind of mouse here on your keyboard.
You can still use that Mouse to draw people's attention.
Better yet, you can use a pen and a graphics tablet
to draw on your screen. So, for example, I have this
Graphics tablet here. Some of you may have heard of these
their brand name is well known, as Wacom.
This one, I got off of Amazon for like 60 bucks.
It allows me to, say, to draw my screen
to say A=6 and B=2.
I can draw on that screen. I have to get used to it.
It takes a little bit of practice, but you can do it.
It's certainly is going to be helpful -- better than nothing.
But better than better is best and that is if your
Windows computer actually comes with a pen.
These Tablet PCs can be really fantastic. So if I
did actually want to say "C in this equation
is the hypotenuse over here."
Then, it's really easy for me to draw directly on the computer.
So this one is indirect. This one is direct.
Both of them can be recorded using Camtasia. So let's
do that now and make a fantastic presentation.
In Camtasia, I go to record and there are some options
in the recorder. The most obvious one for me is that
I am going to choose a recording area and there's
a small little drop-down arrow there. I'll choose
full screen. I don't need my camera on but I do need
my microphone on. And if I have a USB microphone,
I would use that for now. I'm just going to use the onboard
microphone that's part of the Windows computer
and I will hit okay or hit record.
Now as this recording is starting, let me just assure you that
you're human and that you might make mistakes and
that's okay. Just relax take a deep breath.
And recognizes that everything's going to be fine.
Why don't we begin recording? In fact, you might
even want to like do a little snap and because that snap
will show up on the timeline when you're starting
to record. So here we go. All right, everybody. Let's
workout this Pythagorean theorem. We've got A squared
which is going to be one edge of the triangle.
B&C... C being the hypotenuse. So if a is 6, then A Squared
is going to be 36. And if B is 2, then B Squared is going
to be 4. So C Squared is going to be 40 - - or that's for
c squared - - and so the Square Root of 40 is . . . and I can complete this
equation for my students. This is very helpful.
If I'm a stem teacher or a professor, this fantastic. couldn't get along without it.
Architecture? all that kind of stuff.
It's great. It's even better. If you are a professor
who doesn't teach these topics, but you use a lot of PowerPoint.
Let me show you why. We're going to
go into PowerPoint and I've got a presentation
that I will go into slideshow mode ... from the beginning.
I can move my mouse down into the tray down here and
I'll be able to see tools that it didn't see before
if I click on that pen, I can see it that I've got a highlighter.
I've got a pen. I've even got a laser pointer
For our purposes, I'm going to use the pen to
go through my presentation. Some slides are pretty simple.
There's not a whole lot to highlight. But if I've
got some bullet points. My suggestion is to use the
pen liberally - help them know where you're at.
So, if you're talkin about this bullet point, you're
circling something that you're talking about:
four areas or four intersections, you might explain
exactly where those four intersections are in this
graphic when I go on to the next bullet point. I can
check mark something. I can circle something.
Does this look a little bit busy? It does. But the key thing is that
it is helping the students know exactly where you're at
so that they're never confused about... wait?! when
she said that *this* was important what bullet point
was she talking about?!" you know, the students know
where you are at and they're learning everything
that you need them to know. Okay when I'm done, I hit escape
and it will ask me. Do you want to keep those annotations?
I usually just say, nope. Thank you very much.
Now, when I'm also done with my recording I can hit
the red Camtasia button there and it's
going to bring up my recorder. I'll hit stop and in
a second. I'm going to show you how to edit this recording inside of Camtasia.
If you have one of the new iPads
and the fancy apple pencil, you can not only draw
the attention of your users, but you can work out
equations. You can make your PowerPoint presentation
sing and dance. So let's get to it. One of the applications
that you'll need is an application called Capture.
It is a mobile application from TechSmith. We will
click on the record button here and we'll make sure
that microphone is red, meaning that it's on and we'll
go to start the broadcast. It's called. Here we go
and that's going to record. It's not broadcasting anywhere.
It's simply making a recording. Now. I'm going to
go up into a drawing application. There's lots of
them out there. I'm going to use OneNote and with
my setup here. I might even go and change, lets say, my
paper style, to maybe have a slightly bigger grid.
And now, let's start recording our Pythagorean theorem
equation... "Alright everybody, welcome! if the Pythagorean theorem
is to be solved, usually you're solving for the hypotenuse,
which is C. But you're going to need to know what A & B are.
in this case. Let's just say A = 2 and b = 6. So
we're going to say 2 squared + 6 squared equals... woops..
So, this is not C but C squared so that's C squared and
then I can keep working out that equation.
Which is fantastic. I can draw out and work out as complex of a problem
is I would have done on a whiteboard. And in fact,
I even have some space in here that I can I can create
more room to work out the equation if I need to.
OneNote as a mobile app on the mobile platform is really
quite good. But let's say that I've got some slides
in PowerPoint and I happen to be a professor of photography
I go to slideshow mode. I go to start and I can slide
back and forth between my slides using my finger
but one of the really cool things is up here in the
top is I can use my pen to say all right, we're talking
about this bullet point over here. We're going to
focus attention on four distinct intersection
This one here this one here in this one here
and then I can go and explain why it is that the horizon
line is along this line here and why this building
is along that line there and I can explain concept
More importantly though, if I'm a teacher, I want students to
know exactly what I'm talking about. When I pause
to say this is going to be on the test or this is really
important. I want them to know exactly where I am
and that I can circle that bullet point or I can check
it off because I'm done talking about it. I can underline
and maybe there's three more bullet points left,
but they know exactly where I am in this part of the
process now when I'm done, I can go and stop the recording
up with that upper right button. I hit stop and now
this is where things get interesting. As I said before
let's pretend that this computer here is just a normal
Windows computer, right? And what I need to do is
I need to send my iPad files over to that computer. So let
me login over here. Alright, so now what I have to
do is I need to get the recording off of here onto there.
I'm going to go in to Capture. I can see my recording
that I did. And there's an option here to share.
So, I'm going to go to share. I'm going to go to Camtasia
and it's going to say hey can you turn on the camera for me?
And before I do that, I'm going to go over here
on Camtasia and choose Connect To Mobile Device.
It's going to be giving me that QR code. This is going
to be looking for that QR code. Let's see if I can show
you both of them here. It's going to go fast.
And, there it is. It's now right over here - ready for me to edit.
I'll get into editing this file in just a second. Congrats!
As much as I love technology,
there are sometimes really simple ways to get things
done that don't require a fancy pen. But a really
simple pen. We're going to use pencil and paper and
I'm simply going to tell Camtasia that I don't want
it to record the screen. I just want to record the
webcam and I'm going to turn the webcam into a glorified
document camera. So we'll go over to Camtasia. And
I'll go to the record button cure. By default Camtasia
asks, "do you want to record the screen? If so how much?"
And in this case, I'm going to turn off by clicking
the green button here and I'm going to say I don't
need the screen recording on so screens off. I do
however need the screen in the camera on so that's
going to be important to me and I can see you in my preview.
Hello. Hello.... And that microphone... I'll use
the best microphone that I have. If all I've got is my built-in
microphone then I'll use that. Otherwise I'll use
that USB because that's even better. with those two
options on I'm going to hit record. And as I'm I've said in
similar situations: just relax and be yourself.
Don't worry about being perfect. Right? The other
thing I'm going to do here and I can edit this out is
I'm going to take this webcam, and I'm going to turn it
downwards, so that it's taking a look at my document
and now it's time for me to work out the equation.
Alright simple math problem here folks if A=2
then 2 times 2 equals 4 and if B=3 then 3 times
3 equals 9. So what we have is 13 = 4C....
and off course, I could continue working
out this problem. When I'm done here on the computer
I hit stop. And I can preview this video. This video
is going to need a little bit of editing and I'm going
to show you how to do that in just a minute. All right
in this section about editing I'm going to show you
how to cut the beginning of a video, how to cut out the
middle of a video and the end of a video. I'll show you
how to grow the cursor, how to rotate the video, zoom in
and then finally how to share it. So let's start with
where to begin the video. I told you at the beginning
that it was okay, if you just didn't hurry to start
your recording. I can tell that I actually got ready
and really started about here because... listen
"Here we go. All right, everybody, let's..." Here is where I clap or snap
The snap allows me to say. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
That's that's where I started. You can see the spike
here on the timeline is pretty prevalent. So all
I'm going to do is grab the edge of this video here
on the left hand side and drag it over to the left.
And if I want to I can just slide it back. Alternatively,
if I want to I can turn on the magnetic track and it
keeps everything lodged over to the left. Now if I
zoom out a little bit I can see that as part of my video
I pause for second. Maybe I was just collecting my
thoughts and I can zoom in here if I want to to see exactly
where I needed to make my cut. I'll hit the split here.
I can also use the letter S to make the split on the
timeline and I can use the letter S again or once again click
split and now I got this section here, which I'll
just hit the delete key. And because my track is magnetic,
it just jumps over [to the left] and then finally at the end I can
do a similar thing that I did it beginning. Which is,.
I grabbed the end and I can trim the video and have
it end wherever it is that I want. Obviously I can
listen to it as well. Something else you can do...
And, this is important, if you're doing
screen drawing in your video, it's possible that
it may be hard for your users to see exactly where
your mouth is and you can help them by clicking on
that video going to the properties over here and
I'm growing your cursor to 200 - 300% that helps quite
a bit when you're moving around because now it'll
be easier for them to see what you're doing. Additionally.
If you want to you can go even to something call the
cursor effects and you can put a cursor highlight
on your cursor. So that's even easier for them to
track your activity. Alright, let's jump to the
end of this time line over here. And I'm going to go
to my media bin and you'll recall or if you watched part of
the video, you'll see that at some point, I was editing
out a paper and pencil recording that I did with
my webcam. With it selected I can go up to the properties
window and I can type in under 180 degrees and spin
that around I can also go to zoom in on this you'll
see that there's this blackness around here because
the recording was smaller than the project. No problem.
We'll just scale it up. Now. I can do that because
that fills the the screen I can even go further right
and if I want to I can also click on the media files.
Sorry. I rotated it there by accident.
And and I can move it around on the screen
as I wish. Now, that we've got the video ready to go,
All we have to do is share it. My recommendation
is the shareit to MP4 at 1080p. I give it a name and
then you can put that file anywhere. Thanks so much
for watching this video. I wish you the absolute
best in teaching our students online and the and
making an impact in their lives. Thanks a bunch.