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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. Head on over to the TechSmith Education page for more stories on how to create videos and for free software trials. Or, let’s think bigger: student film festival.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos , which are automatically safe to use. If the content you’re interested in doesn’t come with a Creative Commons tag, it helps to know the fair use guidelines that allow the use of works without permission for teaching purposes. Screen name]. year, month day).

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Teaching with Screencasts and Rapid Prototyping

TechSmith Camtasia

When you’re learning something new, you have a lessened ability to think creatively, problem solve, or abstract. It’s important to teach syntax standards and proper formatting, but when I have them experimenting with ideas, the structure of the whole document isn’t nearly as important.

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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 used Creative Commons photos to fill in the gaps of photos that we didn’t have. The post Helping Students Find Identity Through Student Created Video appeared first on TechSmith Blogs. Can’t see the video?

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos, which are automatically safe to use. If the content you’re interested in doesn’t come with a Creative Commons tag, it helps to know that the fair use guidelines which allows the use of works without permission for teaching purposes. However, just as a precaution.

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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. What is the best format to create e-learning that can be used on mobile and desktops?

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Building a Middle School Flipped Classroom

TechSmith Camtasia

While this isn’t the first piece of software to report this, it is the first type I have found (that is teacher-budget-friendly) that reports it in such an easy-to-use format. The featured image for this post is creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by ptrlx. For Educators'

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