Reflective Journal for the month of October

The fourth assignment on producing video tutorial using Camtasia Studio was yet another opportunity for us to learn new things. Especially for me the very soft ware itself was new and did not know the existence of it till date. It was an eye opener for me to learn that video productions are done in several ways using the particular software.

The new skills that I have gained through this assignment are: Firstly, I have learnt how to prepare power point presentation in the software itself and then to save it and to go to ‘record the screen’ and select the area correctly for good presentation prior to recording the lesson. I came to know that without the proper area selection, half of the pictures and words are invisible when we later play the clip.  I failed several times in this part until I finally discovered that area selection is of utmost importance. Then I knew that we have to go to settings and enable the audio recording device to start the recording. Saving the clip after recording was yet another challenge that I came across since the dialogue box for saving are displayed occasionally and not all the time. However, I managed it after several inquiries to our friends and through self exploration. Unclear voice and so much of unknown disturbances of sound in the presentation had also frustrated me although I could minimize to some extent by fiddling here and there by clicking to audio enhancement under the heading ‘Edit’.  Next I have learnt how to import the clips and then to edit it by splitting and deleting the unwanted parts of the clip. It is also new for me to know that final production by saving in CD will not allow others to edit or delete the clips.

From the topic: ‘Use different word processing features to produce document’ the new knowledge that I have gained are: how to insert the shape in activity 2 and arrange the rings in cylindrical shape using the software GSP which is very useful in drawing Venn diagrams in Mathematics and to insert different mathematical equations which is very important for us as a teacher.  Using mail merge to write letters and invitation cards to multiple friends was an opportunity to refresh myself since I have learnt the same in Chiphen Rigpel Workshop in 2011 but did not get the opportunity to implement it so far. Activities like inserting two or more shapes and grouping them together, designing Invitation Cards, Certificates, first page of the newsletters page and power point presentation are at least familiar to me although I am not perfect in those areas.

All in all I have experienced and gained many new ideas and concepts through those assignments and I hope I will learn and get more enlightened in ICT as and when I will be exploring with the last materials uploaded by our sir very recently.                           

                                               Thank you