Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Thou Shalt Practice Thy New Skills!

When I learned we would be using Camtasia in class for the Digital Storytelling project, I was so excited!  Why?  I had used Camtasia a few times before in previous classes.  I was relieved that I would only have to concentrate on the content, instead of learning a new tool AND concentrating on the content.

Unfortunately, when it came time to use Camtasia, I was very rusty.  It had been a year since I had last used Camtasia, and it felt almost like the first time I'd used it.  I knew what I wanted to do, it just took some time for me to remember how do it... Ugg!

A good lesson for me!  I need to make sure I practice my new skills, so that I can use them easily when needed.  It wasted a lot of my time to get back up to speed, and had I been practicing here and there, I would have been in much better shape.