CAMTASIA

 Camtasia (as informative tool)

There are lots of informative tools that are effective and commonly used in educational setting. Among various tool, Camtasia is an informative tool that is used in education setting for making presentation for virtual classes and instructional videos for students during situations that demand online classes.

Camtasia is conventional for both academic and personal as a trainee because it allows me to use it for recording tutorial videos plus screen record for my personal and academic use. Camtasia allow me to record my screen and edit it displaying the content allowing me to effectively communicate my ideas with the audience.  Drag – drop down is another feature that makes it easier for me to focus more on the content rather than having to worry about insertion of text, audios, videos or transition. I find this tool easier to use as it doesn’t have much of complex steps to edit the videos which might allow beginner or new user to use it without much of haze.

For ict module we had assignment to record tutorial video for virtual classroom on topic from primary curriculum and I made use of this tool for the tutorial video. To make my video accessible all types of learners, I used closed captions and images as well. These features of Camtasia enhance the video quality making my tutorial inclusive and enjoyable. Camtasia also has feature whereby we can add quizzes and link making tutorial video fun and engaging. While screen recording it even record our face as we explain the displayed contents which means audience could see my gesture and expression while presenting the content making information transmission smoother and effective.

                                              

                                                            (Creating tutorial video)

However, Camtasia is resource intensive whereby computers with less power or older version of computers will face lots of issues, which lead towards hectic editing processes. Though Camtasia has various export formats, it still doesn’t offer various options that other tools provide. Another thing is that the videos created with Camtasia result in large files most of the time which making it difficult to share and store in small sized devices.

Though its’ resource-intensive nature and larger file sizes pose challenges to less powerful computers and limited storage devices. Camtasia is informative tool that allow users to create instructional videos in educational settings with features like quizzes, screen recording, insertion of video, text and even closed captions

(Camtasia tutorial video on teaching 

mixture to grade iv children)