Camtasia Project Ideas

Marcia Williams, who is a faculty member at BCC and on the Washington Working Connections Advisory Board, just sent me a fabulous list of Camtasia project ideas that I want to share with everyone.

• Powerpoint narration
• Demo of how to do something on the computer
• Tour of my online website for my online course
• Critique of a pseudo-student paper - like a lecture on paragraph construction, etc
• Foreign Language - pronunciation practice
• Health Professions - pronunciation practice (long technical terms)
• ESL - pronunciation practice
• Review of a test - after the fact - can save class time even in a campus section
• Review of an assignment's specifications - as it is assigned. I always create an .exe of my programming assignments and walk students through the execution of the program
• Pre-submission checklist for a programming (or any) assignment - using a rubric like a checklist - or the assignment specs again - get students to find and correct their own mistakes before they submit so grading is easier (hooray!), students fix and learn from their own mistakes, and they earn a better grade. Win, Win!
• Critique of an interior design class project - so students can see what a critique looks like
• Two person dialog - perhaps acting out a historical event/conversation

Here are a few more ideas from me:

• Online orientation for a distance learning class. I've been using one for the past year and it helps students to understand how the class works.
• Math instructors (or any one teaching math for their field) showing and telling students how to solve problems using Camtasia installed on a tablet pc.
• Art instructor explaining concepts in art history.
• Critique/feedback for multimedia projects

If you'd like to add other ideas, please post a comment!