My perception on camtasia.

Camtasia and its benefits

Camtasia is a video recording and editing software, created and published by Tec Smith, for creating video tutorials and presentations. When sir assigned us to make a video tutorial on a specific topic, I was really tensed and worried, although sir introduced us on camtasia. I spared most of my time on learning and practicing camtasia from the day sir assigned us with a task to capture video. On 20^th/05/2019 I stayed in Lab recording and editing the video late night till security guard came to chase me out. As Camtasia is totally new to me, I had a tough time to come up with one finish video. But later I uploaded my tutorial on face book and almost all mates gave me positive comments despite few drawbacks. I really felt good and watched my own video several times and gained lots of satisfaction. I found making educative videos using Camtasia is really useful and effective in this 21^st pedagogy.

If we understand camtasia properly it is Simple, but full of features. We can record icon, record screen and webcam. We can also capture crisp video and audio from our desktop or record webcam to add a personal touch to our video. Camtasia gives us pre-made animations that are simple to customize. Effects add professionalism and polish to our videos with drag-and-drop functionality. We can also add music and sound effects. And Camtasia let us record and edit our audio clips to get the perfect audio for our video.

We can add quizzes and interactivity to encourage and measure learning in our videos. There are many other features to add on our video to attract the viewers. We can turn our presentation into a video which will turn any learning into fun. So I am going to use camtasia in my teaching in future and I urge other friends to use as well because it is really effective and powerful tool which we can use in our teaching. And I have uploaded my first video which is produced using camtasia below. Enjoy watching it.

Thank you.

Power Point presentation

PowerPoint Presentation

As a teaching professional I personally felt that PowerPoint presentation is soul in teaching. I considered it as a soul of teaching because in this 21^st century anything can be taught through PowerPoint presentation for better understanding. So after joining this college I have learnt many skills on ICT/computer from the Functional Information Technology (FIT) module and ICT module particularly designing PowerPoint presentation which I found the most effective one.

I learnt that to design an effective PowerPoint presentation we need some basic features like Big, Simple, Clear, Progressive and Consistent in the slides.

Here Big means that we need to make the font size in the slides visible from 2 metres away distance and the font or size of the letter should not be too small or too big which can affect the audience interest.

The Simple in the presentation slide means that we should not add too many colors and too many fonts and styles. I learnt that we have to follow 6 x 7 rules which mean no more than 6 lines per slide and no more than 7 words per line. In brief we should not put so many text, pictures and colors’ in the slides.

Clarity in the slides means to use contrasting colors like light on dark versus dark on light. Moreover we should always use complementary colors in the slides and use numbers to lists with sequence and bullet to list important points. On the other hand we have to avoid writing all capital lettertogether, using serif fonts, italics styles and underlined sentences as it represent hyperlinks.

Progressive and consistent means to use clear and identifiable hints in listing the important points to track differences and it should be consistence in the uses. We need to use some surprises to attract or distract the audience in the presentation.

Simulation is one the most effective means to use in teaching which I learned under Power Point presentation. Topics such as four seasons, different structures of Dzong, electric current and many more can be taught by making simulation which will help the children to understand the concept easily. ICT tutor gave us opportunity to prepare simulation on anything which will attract the tourists in our locality. At first I found it so difficult to prepare because I have to apply different animation to make it creative and attractive. But later I could produce at least one simulation at the end because of tutors guidance and friends support. As I am from Paro, I made a simulation on Drugyel Dzong which is one of the main assets of Paro which will attract tourists. I got so much of satisfaction after I finished making simulation and on that day I realized if we produce our own work, at the end how much satisfaction we get. So as a future teacher we should encourage such give such activities or opportunity to stimulate child’s creativity and critical thinking. And the simulation which I have uploaded below is my own production.