What tools I use for screen capture

When it comes to doing screen captures for my lessons or short tutorial videos for my CCNA classes, I've always relied upon Camtasia Studio to do all these. After I compile the videos, I upload them to Moodle (the LMS that we use in DWU).

Speak To Me In The Stillness Of My Heart

SPEAK TO ME IN THE STILLNESS OF MY HEART

By Picky Airi

Reading: 1 Samuel 3:1-11

Do you have time to listen?

There are times in our lives that we so often talk too much. Imagine there are two people communicating, and only one person is doing all the talking, never trying to listen. In any culture there are always basic protocols (rules) of communication. For example, when we meet a wantok, we shake hands first as a sign of greeting or sometimes say a simple hello before anything. Then after the initial gestures, we start to verbally communicate.  

Poem: Goodbye My Dear Friend

I’m not good in writing poems but I decided to write this one today (23.02.16) dedicated to my former teacher, mentor, toastmasters coach and a special friend, late Mr. Jun Pasilabban. 

Photo credit: Jun's Facebook page

Goodbye – My Dear Friend

Written by Picky Airi

Morning tea today

Wasn’t like any other day

Why switch to Windows 10? Why not open source?

While it is good to have Windows 10, I doubt the stability of this OS. I have used Windows 8 and 10 only recently on one of my machines and its (Windows 10) lack of stability is really an issue for me unlike the experience on Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1. And based on tech forums and articles I'm reading, I am not alone. Example here

Although Windows 7 has been granted a 2 year extension on the shelf  (Microsoft's sales life cycle), the move has been on snail pace for many users from Windows 7 to Windows 10. 

Another one of those must have tools for the "eTeacher"

Source: itunes.apple.com 

As a teacher who relies heavily on ebooks as reading resources and reference material for students, I download a lot of ebooks from the internet. One problem I have come across is how do I split the PDF to extract only the pages I want to give the students and leave out the rest.

Rather than copying the entire chapter and pasting to word which I used to do before I decided to do some googling to find out if there is an app that can split the PDF and give me just what I want. (This feature is built into adobe pdf but you will have to register to use it which I couldn't.)

Integrate Camtasia Studio with Moodle

It has been a while since I last posted any tutorial here. Been very busy with work and family that I wasn't able to write something. However, I did get to participate in a very enlightening course over the course of three weeks on teaching online.

It was through this course that I started to assist the facilitator teach some of my colleagues on how to use Camtasia. Camtasia is a great screen capture tool. I shall not go into the details of the software as there is tonnes of info on their website (a simple Google search would do) but I would like to share a tutorial I wrote on how to integrate Camtasia with Moodle. Moodle is an open source LMS with a huge support its community of users. You can find more about Moodle here.