Monday, November 5, 2007

Tablet + Camtasia = Great when missing class

I should have posted this long ago, but I've had trouble logging in. Using Camtasia and the Tablet made it much easier for me to go on the Burch trip this year. Before I left for the trip, I taught all the classes I was going to miss. I used OneNote to write notes, and recorded the session with Camtasia. While I was gone, my students watched a lecture each day by their normal teacher and were able to keep up daily. The time investment to set everything up was difficult, but not as bad as it seems. Since there was no interaction, I could cover everything I would normally cover in a class period in about 15-20 minutes.


PS - My video about changing the brightness settings is not very useful. Unfortunately, as soon as you shut down, the computer goes back to the original default. I have not figured out how to change that.

1 comment:

candimeg said...

I can honestly say that the students who took these classes while you were at Burch were very impressed. They also thought it was amusing, but several of them did get together to watch them as a unit.

Great use of technology!