Often, people like to make videos showing how to do something on a device or laptop. Most devices make it easy to do short screen recordings, in a variety of ways. Take a look through the resources below to learn how to do this.
Best Practices
Watch this video to learn some best practices when recording your screen for learning.
The Online Learning Center. (2020). Screen Recording Best Practices [Video File]. Retrieved June 2020 from https://youtu.be/GTfKweW1CX0.
How to Screen Record
In Zoom
Create a Zoom meeting, and record yourself doing a screen share. You can:
Narrate a PowerPoint presentation,
Demonstrate a browser (like your eConstoga course layout, or a website);
Demonstrate yourself using software, or using your desktop;
Annotate your screen to illustrate processes or focus attention;
Diagram or draw in a Zoom whiteboard.
This video shows how.
Kevin Stratvert. (2020). How to record screen on Laptop & PC using Zoom [Video file]. Retrieved August 2020 from https://youtu.be/yii4M5204SE.
Use Panopto Capture (or the more robust downloadable software) to directly record videos into your course Panopto folder. Learn more about how to use Panopto Capture.
Panopto (2020). How to Create a Video Using Panopto Capture [5:16]
Swipe up on your screen to access the Control Center and use the screen recorder built in. Visit this tutorial.
On a PC (Windows 10, 8.1, 8 or 7)
You can screen record in a variety of ways on a Windows PC. Try one of these solutions:
Use the screen recording tool built into PowerPoint. Right click on the recording to save it as a video file (.mp4). Learn more from MakeUseOf
Teaching and Learning Conestoga in collaboration with the Online Learning Center. (2020). Screen Recording in PowerPoint [Video file]. Licensed CC-BY. Retrieved August 2020 from https://youtu.be/aeWtRWyo7iM.
Jesslyn is an Educational Technology Consultant at
Conestoga. An Ontario Certified Teacher, and holding a M. Ed.
and B.Ed., Jesslyn researches and promotes new technologies
for faculty to enhance pedagogical practices. She brings to
the role her experience as a Google and Microsoft certified
technology trainer and as a classroom teacher in South
Korea, Mongolia, and Ontario, focusing on special education
and assistive learning technologies. She is available for
workshops, consultations, and support with using technology
in higher education contexts.
Hi Jesslyn. I use Loom which is a chrome add-on (free). Quite useful
Glad to hear it, Dave! Loom looks great – I like that you can sign in with any email, and just get to the video. How do you add your captioning? Is there free captioning built into Loom?
I want to do a video to address my classes!
I would like to make a short video to close out the year and sign off with my groups. there are so many options I know to do this… but I need something simple from the camera of my laptop. I would like to upload it to “content” within econestoga for students to view.
I am looking for suggestions.
Thanks
Hello! One of the easiest ways to make a screen recording using your laptop camera is with Zoom or with PowerPoint. See this Teaching Tip for information on the latter! https://tlconestoga.ca/screen-recording-with-powerpoint/
Hi Jesslyn. I use Loom which is a chrome add-on (free). Quite useful
Glad to hear it, Dave! Loom looks great – I like that you can sign in with any email, and just get to the video. How do you add your captioning? Is there free captioning built into Loom?
I want to do a video to address my classes!
I would like to make a short video to close out the year and sign off with my groups. there are so many options I know to do this… but I need something simple from the camera of my laptop. I would like to upload it to “content” within econestoga for students to view.
I am looking for suggestions.
Thanks
Hello! One of the easiest ways to make a screen recording using your laptop camera is with Zoom or with PowerPoint. See this Teaching Tip for information on the latter! https://tlconestoga.ca/screen-recording-with-powerpoint/