Hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com today we
can look at one of my favourite technologies I'm gonna show you some lovely ideas about how
this technology can be used we're gonna look at Snagit we can look at screen capture and
we're gonna look at a complete training from the beginning so this is a beginner's guide to using
Snagit if you watch these videos through to the end you're going to learn how to do screen caps
you're going to get some great ideas and I'm going to show you how we can also use Snagit for image
capture really hope you liked the video if you do please like it please share it please comment
on it as always let's get started so once you've downloaded Snagit 2019 onto your computer and if
you've got 2018 news videos will also be totally relevant because there was only a few updates
between 2018 and 2019 in your programs go over and what you're looking for is to open up from
TechSmith you want Snagit and the best thing is to open up the editor first the editor room recorder
are kind of two separate things the editor is where you can edit and organize your recordings
and your image capture and the capture button of course is this button here that you click on
that will allow you to screen capture and we're going to start straightaway with screen capture
so remember this is your edit window and we'll be coming back and looking at this but to actually do
a recording and the most important thing to get us started is to click on this button here and we're
going to capture something now what I'm going to do for the first example is I'm going to capture a
PowerPoint presentation and show you how you would do that so this is Snagit on the screen and if I
was going to do a PowerPoint recording I wouldn't need to record full screen there's really no need
to do that because when you do a recording when you open it up afterwards as a video you'll see it
will be nice and big in size and quality because there are so many pixels on a screen these days
that even when you blow up a video as long as you don't do it too much it's still but it's going to
look really good so you come on to Snagit click on video we're not going to have the webcam on I
will come back to that make sure your microphone is on you do want to have as well record systems
audio that means it will record any sounds at your computer place as well as of course of your actual
voice you definitely want to be able to record the cursor so put that on and you definitely
want to make sure that you preview that is once you've done the recording it plays back so those
are the settings that you need to basically work and just one little thing here let me close that
sorry is here is to click on on and just make sure that you've chosen the correct microphone so what
I'm going to do for this example is I'm actually going to use a different microphone to the one
that I'm using to do this recording so I've got kind of two microphone setup so I'm going to
choose to use the microphone that's on my webcam and that's it now when I want to actually start to
do my recording all I need to do now is to mark the area on the screen now just while I'm doing
this recording I'm going to turn my own webcam off and you'll see why in a minute because I'm
actually going to show you how the webcam works in Snagit so first of all then let's just do a
basic recording so click on the Snagit on on the capture button hold your mouse down and Mark the
area that you want to record and notice I don't need to go full screen the quality of the image
is so good these days there's so many pixels so I really don't need to go full screen just going
to do that down a little bit and notice also it means that the controls are on the screen here and
this is really handy you'll see in a minute the benefits of this so I'm gonna click on this button
now to start and you'll see how I do a recording good morning ladies and gentlemen and today I'm
going to talk about the two courses that I've run on the flipped classroom in collaboration with
Niall Norwich Institute for language education and teachertrainingvideos.com I click on the
pause button now and now I can jump to the first slide and then carry on my recording first of all
just give you a little bit of background to my own experience in the flipped classroom and I began to
do some exercises with the flipped classroom back in 2006 2007 before I'd even heard of the name
and it was actually an organization in America that had read about my work and invited me out
and I met many of the early people that were working on the flipped classroom idea okay so I
can then carry on like this so once I've done my recording and if I want to not click on another
page okay and then I could continue just one the screen capture or the flipped classroom is really
based on the work of blooms blah blah blah blah blah won't do any more just can applause that but
now I'm going to stop it so I've done my recording and that recording is instantly playable so I can
now play that recording back good morning ladies and gentlemen and today I'm going to talk about
the two courses that I've run on the flipped classroom in collaboration with Niall Norwich
Institute for language education and teacher training videos calm first of all just so simple
now all I would need to do now is click on save as and I can save that video onto my computer so
I'm gonna call this one test Snagit sorry Snagit video okay and that video is now ready I can then
share that on for example on Moodle or share that on on that mod or share it on blackboard or email
it to my students or etc now there are actually lots of other ways of distributing the video and
I'm going to show you those in a minute let's just have a quick look at that video so if I now just
minimize the screen of my computer and I'm going to delete the powerpoints like we won't be using
it anymore then I will find that here is my video okay it's actually on my other screen I've got
two computer screens here but here it is and if I click on it it will open up nicely waiting ladies
and gentlemen and today we're going to talk about the two courses that I and that video is now mine
so you can see how easy it is to make a video now I'm going to come back now and show you how
you could add a webcam to your video which often people want to do so what I'm going to do for this
second one is open up some images I've got here of if I would just work with a picture of Henry the
8th and what I'm going to do is I'm now going to open up Snagit so I'm going to open up the recall
again I'm gonna turn the webcam this time I'm actually instead of I'm gonna turn it on so I'm
connected to my webcam and I'm happy with that and now I want to do is I'm going to click on capture
and we'll do the same thing as I did here but now you'll notice I come on the screen first now in
this particular case because of the size of the image of January 8th when we do the webcam you'll
notice that this is kind of black area around it sometimes that happens sometimes it doesn't it's
really to do with the screen size and the size of your webcam but now what I could do is click
on this button and kind of record myself doing an introduction before I then went into the lecture
about Henry the 8th so let me give an example good morning ladies and gentlemen today we're
going to talk about Henry the eighth one of the most perhaps significant historically Kings in the
history of the United Kingdom and what we're going to do is talk though not so much about his life
regarding his six wives but more about his impact on the society that we live in today particularly
looking at how he made the decision to break with the Catholic Church and create the Church
of England here in the UK so then I click on the pause button and now I could do then is just click
on this button here and jump over to Henry APC I can jump between webcam or screen capture webcam
screen capture that's absolutely fantastic now I could carry on so I would keep click on this
button here let me just give you a little bit of background to Henry the Athan let's just talk a
little bit about his religious convictions originally Henry Lake was in fact very very
Catholic and had very strong associations with the Catholic Church of blah blah blah blah blah okay
so I'm gonna carry on any longer I click on the stop button ok by clicking here and that video is
immediately ready as we know it starts with me in a web cam good morning ladies and gentlemen
today we're going to talk about Henry the eighth one of the most significant and historically and
then afterwards if I carry on it's going to come into the actual video now one little thing about
when you're working on the editor here you can cut bits out so let's imagine for example that
the last bit of the video I wasn't happy with alright those strong associations with the task
judge blah blah blah I like so that blah blah blah I'll grab someone to cut that out I've had very
strong associations with the Catholic joke alright so I'm going to stop there I'm going to just mark
that to the end notice now it says cut and I could have cut that blah blah blah bit out so you can
actually edit okay I can put the webcam back on now because I'm not using the webcam within Snagit
I'm using it to do this recording so where I want to what I want to talk about now is a little bit
about sharing the video so obviously we've already seen it we can click on the file and we can click
on save as and then we can just save the video onto our computer and share it but actually we
could do lots of other things with that video we could for example share it onto our Google Drive
if we have a Google account then we are able to save our videos into our Google Drive and in fact
I do that quite a lot and the same with YouTube now I'm just going to show an example with YouTube
because it's quite interesting so if I just click on my account and I'm just going to show that I'm
actually at the moment I'm signed out so I'm just going to kick yourself just gonna show you the
exact process okay so if I wanted to share onto YouTube and I was just coming on for the first
time the first thing I would need to do is click on account and then sign in and in my case it's
going to say to me well which of your accounts do you want to use and I'm going to actually click
on use another account I've got a few other ones and I'm just going to click on teacher training
videos at Google Mail comm and I simply put in the name of the email address of my Googler an email
address and then I simply put in the password and then click on neck so now that connects my
Snagit to my YouTube channel and incredibly now I can upload a video directly so I'm just going
to close that down and just show you how easy it is to now do this once you've connected your
channel it will always be connected as well you don't have to read net so if I now click here to
send to YouTube okay it's literally going to open up and I'm just going to write test video to just
put test video Snagit TTV you always have to put a quick description so I'm just gonna copy that
description and then I'm gonna write here TTV now it's the settings I'm gonna do two things
I'm gonna say URL in other words when the video is uploaded immediately Snagit or in fact YouTube
is going to send me back the link to where I can find that video on YouTube okay but I'm also going
to send the video set the video as unlisted and that means that nobody can find that video unless
they've got a link you won't be able to search for it on youtube or you know it won't actually be in
any of their lists if you do a search so those two things are really useful I'm going to click
on upload and immediately that video starts to upload you can see it here happening on
the right-hand side it shouldn't take too long now the incredible thing is once the video is uploaded
and it will kind of warn you in the corner that your video has been uploaded what happens is your
computer automatically saves the link as if you've copied and pasted it yeah so what I mean by that
you don't actually need to do anything the videos already uploaded in it if I was to upload open up
a for example if I was to open up Google Chrome or Internet Explorer let's do it internet explorer
I'm just going to click on Internet explorer and open it up onto the screen remember the address
to that video is just literally been saved as if I was to copy and paste you know when you copy
something you click on something to copy it well as soon as you upload a video into YouTube the
link is sent back and copied into your clipboard so watch this if I press control V and press enter
I'm going to go straight to that video there it is just going to take a few seconds and gentlemen
today we're going to talk about Henry the eighth one of the most so there is I've done a lecture
on Henry egg which I've now put up online in my particular case I'm gonna talk you through some of
the things that I've done with Snagit I literally use it all the time as I said at the beginning it
is my favorite technology and then I'm gonna at the end I'm going to show you one really special
bonus thing and that is how you can use screen or Snagit for image capture as well as for video
capture as long ago as 2005 I wrote an article where I just suggested that screen capture could
be used to give feedback to students on their work and this particular article was published
in the modern English teacher and the idea is simple if a student sends me their work I can
open it on my screen I can mark the points I want to make turn on the screen capture record myself
going through their work and then sending them a video so they're not only gonna hear me talking
but they're also gonna see as I talk through their screen now this idea generated a lot of publicity
for me I wrote that article in 2005 they ended up winning a few awards and it ended up that I had
an article in The Times hire at the beginning of 2006 and then things really took after that took
off after that let me show you this our actual idea so I'm just gonna come over here and we're
gonna open up screen capture I've got a piece of students work here let's imagine that I've
already read the work and I've marked some of the things that I want to talk about okay so in theory
what I could do now is simply mark out the area of the screen record myself and then send that video
to the students so all I need to do is open up the screen capture make sure it's on video click
on clap shot I'm going to mark the area where I want to give my feedback I don't have to go full
screen you'll see why in a minute I don't need the webcam what I'm going to turn that off now
I'm going to start doing the recording hi Tom just want to give you some feedback on the work
you sent me the other day first thing I just want to point out here is bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
okay so I could give my feedback Tom I just want to point out also down here I'm not happy about
this bla bla bla bla bla bla bla and you might really want to consider what you're saying here
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla and then also here's something else I really don't agree with this bla
bla bla bla bla okay and I can do the recording and then I can click on stop now that video is
immediately ready I just want to give you some feedback on the work you sent me the other day
now this idea has really taken off there's been lots of articles written about it by people who
are much better at this doing research than I am I've also managed to publish a few articles and a
couple of book chapters I really do think this idea has got lots of potential it's one of the
reasons why I really do recommend having screen capture technology and why I particularly like
Snagit because it seems very reliable I'm gonna finish with one little bonus thing now that you
might not know about snag now you may not realize this but also snag is a brilliant image captured
too in fact originally it was an image capture tool and I'm going to give you a really super
simple idea I've used this idea in many times but it really does highlight the power of snag
I'm going to search for images of computers I'm going to click on images I'm going to make sure I
do this legally so I'm going to click on tools and I'm going to set it to an image that is labeled
for non-recursive rooms non-commercial reuse with modification so I can use any of these pictures of
computers I'm going to use this one here this will do absolutely fine yeah let's click on that one
and then what I'm going to do now is image capture that so I'm going to open up to snag it but I'm
not doing video capture now I'm going to do image capture and I'll just simply click do it at this
size it will do fine for this quick example I'm just going to mark that area and that's now to
open up in the Edit window now what I'm going to do here is I'm going to kind of turn this into a
worksheet and to do that first of all I need to number some different objects on the screen so
I'm going to click up here and I'm going to click on a button called steps okay and I'm going to do
red ones and now I'm gonna start and I'm going to so right that would be screen that would be
Mouse that would be Matt that would be computer that would be cable that would be stand and that
would be keyboard so I've got here a total of seven different things and I'm not even gonna
save that image for now I'm simply gonna click on copy all and now I'm going to do is I'm going to
paste that immediately into a Word document so I've got a Word document open on the screen and
if I now click on it and click paste that image goes straight into the word document and now what
I could do down here underneath just going to come underneath the document I'm going to say complete
correct word and then I would say number one and two number three number four number five Number
six number seven and I've literally created an exercise in no time at all so stag it's a great
image capture tool as well as a video capture tool a screen capture tool I use both aspects of Snagit
a lot I really I'm a big fan of Snagit all right okay really hope that was a useful video if it was
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