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13 Tips for Recording Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod

TechSmith Camtasia

TechSmith Capture is an iOS recording app that lets you create high-quality mobile demos and how-to videos right from your phone or tablet. If the content you’re recording has its own audio—like the sound effects in a game—you will want to unmute your device so it is captured. Recording in a clothes closet is also effective.

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Ten Ways to Use Video in the Classroom

TechSmith Camtasia

It’s back-to-school season for most educators and this year, the TechSmith Education team is writing a series of blog posts with some ideas for the classroom. It’s catching on as a way to begin working more effectively with students and it can be a great goal to have in place as you begin exploring using video. Flip a Lesson.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. Record a PowerPoint presentation with narration and add special effects, images, audio, and video. YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos , which are automatically safe to use. Ruffini, Ed.D.

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Teaching with Screencasts and Rapid Prototyping

TechSmith Camtasia

Rather than writing out entire documents and refreshing the browser to see the effect, I start by prototyping in services like CodePen or jsFiddle. When you’re learning something new, you have a lessened ability to think creatively, problem solve, or abstract. How do you encourage students to be creative in their learning?

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Helping Students Find Identity Through Student Created Video

TechSmith Camtasia

Because we could all connect to the same school BYOD WiFi network, we used TechSmith Fuse to deliver media. We added media to the clip bin and then dragged it into place, where we trimmed it as necessary and added effects. We used Creative Commons photos to fill in the gaps of photos that we didn’t have.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offers instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. Record a PowerPoint presentation with narration and add special effects, images, audio and video. YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos, which are automatically safe to use. Ruffini, Ed.D.

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E-Learning 101: Straightforward Answers to Fundamental Questions—Part 2

ATD Learning Technologies

In October 2013, an eLearning Guild report showed the most common authoring tools were Adobe Captivate, TechSmith Camtasia, Articulate Storyline, Articulate Studio, and Trivantis Lectora, and those tools are still leaders in this market. And yet, you need to know to be able to plan effectively. It depends!