Our group used Camtasia for our PD tutorial to demonstrate a
screencasting software. Camtasia is one
of the best screencasting software’s on the market and gave us the freedom and
ability to create a really clean and professional looking presentation. I have also tried other software liked Cam
Studio and that was not anywhere near as clear in production and options where
very limited. For our purposes and to
really give a good overview of what screencasting really is and what it entails
Camtasia was the best choice.
I learned a lot about how screencasting works. I understood the general concept of what
screencasting was but it was my first opportunity to really use the software
first hand. I was able to experiment and
play around with a lot of the different features. I have video editing experience and Camtasia
was very similar. I actually found the
Camtasia software to be much more useful that most other video editing
software. I would recommend Camtasia for
teachers who not only want to screencast but to create any kind of video to use
in the classrooms. It is very conducive
to educator’s needs.
If I had to develop a similar product again I would probably
have wanted to split the whole thing into 4 parts instead of 3 parts and one
person doing the editing and voice-overs.
This way it is much easier for the person who is doing the screencasting
to do the voice over. This will allow
the voice to match up with the video much more easily. I struggled with this when I was putting
together the final product and doing the voice-overs. Every person reads at a different pace and it
is tough to match up the video and the audio.
I really had to watch the video several times and using our storyboard to
explain what was going on in the video.
Doing it where every person does their own part would make putting the
final product together much quicker and easier.
Here is the link to our final project:
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