After four takes, Steve has a 10-minute movie that he really likes. He stops Camtasia, deletes the first attempt, opens a new SmoothDraw page, and tries again. He records for about two minutes before he messes up. Camtasia counts down from three and then Steve begins to talk and draw on the pen tablet with the accompanying stylus. He then turns on the TechSmith Camtasia screen recorder software installed on his laptop that will record all of his screen activity and his voice. In his quiet home office, Steve plugs the tablet into his laptop, plugs in his headset microphone, and opens up a blank SmoothDraw page.
He checks out a Wacom Bamboo Create pen tablet from TLT and takes it home with him. Steve decides to use his laptop to simulate a whiteboard using a free software tool called SmoothDraw. He also wants students to focus on the process, not on him, so he would rather not capture himself in front of the board. He thinks recording in a more controlled studio environment might work better. Steve is a bit of a perfectionist and knows that each video might require multiple attempts. He could grab a camera and have a colleague record him at the whiteboard in his classroom. Steve considers several options for producing the videos. Steve wants to make that process available to students in the form of online, narrated videos. The instructional value of this activity is not the finished diagram, but the process of drawing it. Steve teaches economics and spends a lot of time in class at the whiteboard, drawing diagrams. It is intended for instructors using PC laptops.
This article demonstrates how to record an instructional video that includes capturing your laptop screen activity, narration, and freehand drawing using a pen or stylus and a software tool called SmoothDraw on a Wacom Bamboo Create pen tablet, similar to the videos available through Khan Academy.
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