Sometimes I have to
make screencasts on Xbox, usually for our gaming show, but sometimes for tutorials, as well.
... And yes it certainly can be done without technology, I would argue... but now, recording a podcast or
making a screencast is so easy that really any teacher can do it.
Intrepid teachers like Quisha Brown, who
made this screencast about Common Core 360, are hunting down the free resources.
Authors should strive to
make the screencast professional and engaging for their audience.
It works on both Windows and Mac (and is something of a godsend for the latter, because there was no good cheap tool for
making screencast videos for the Mac).
Not exact matches
After devices have been returned to their owners, ask participants what they liked about the other person's
screencast and, as a group, begin to pull together a list of qualities that
make a successful
screencast.
None of the teachers involved in the study ever instructed students to play back their
screencasts or
make revisions.
This organization has a great backstory — started by a public school in Washington D.C. as a home - grown repository for
screencast lessons
made by their teachers, they caught the attention of edtech funders and ended up with seed money to take their idea to a national level.
They might
make a public service announcement in iMovie, or a
screencast that highlights different parts of an annotated text in Explain Everything.
Setting norms for your classroom, such as keeping
screencasts under 2 minutes, can
make reviewing student videos more manageable.
My students analyzed
screencasting tools and
made video tutorials for peers, younger grades, or other schools.
Kathy and I have
made many tutorial videos and
screencasts that unfortunately were not used as widely as we hoped.
Storyline
makes it easy to include the much - needed engagement in online courses by offering the flexibility to develop
screencasts, interactive videos, and gamified courses.
How Do I
Make a Good
Screencast?
Screencast videos are
made available online for pupils to review during the lesson or as part of homework assignments.
Yes, if you want to share something on your screen you could simply do some screenshots or still photos of it, but if you want to go beyond that and
make learning more fun and efficient, then try
screencasting.
Enhancing lessons, providing instruction for absent students and
making a class video are only a few of things
Screencast - O - Matic can accomplish.
While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students
make their own
screencasts to help me assess their progress.
Today, free online programs, such as Jing and
Screencast - O - Matic,
make video production as easy as pressing «record,» clicking «stop,» and distributing a URL of the video.
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Making Your Point with Presentation Software Even if many districts are encouraging their teachers to be the «guide on the side» rather than the «sage on the stage,» PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote, and a variety of
screencasting apps are still prevalent in the classroom.
However, we didn't
make these collaborative
screencasts to share with the world, or to be perfect.
In this multi-part
screencast tutorial series, Kyatric shows you how to
make a game inspired by the Hudson Soft classic, Bomberman.
Also includes
screencast on how to
make the custom page for all your reviews.
There are
screencasts explaining how to
make reviews and scoring.
The videos are
screencasts of the artist's phone as he
makes paintings, does some other stuff, circles back, putzes around.
I've written before about podcasting as CLE, but with
screencasting, you can easily produce and package a complete audiovisual presentation and easily
make it available for broad distribution via the Web or on CD - ROM.
Making use of online toys Revisit and
Screencast - o - matic, I created this 2 minute video demonstrating how 6 hours worth of tweets (27), retweets (12) and mentions (9) containing links to the decision contributed to the public's enormous interest.
In the video, Brownlee walks us through the OnePlus One's modified Android camera that
makes it easier to take panoramic shots and add Instagram - like photo filters to pictures and videos; the built - in
Screencast app that will let you record all of the actions that you take on your device's screen, which should
make it much easier to do mobile app and mobile game demonstration videos; the Themes Showcase app that gives you additional customization options that you previously had to root your phone to acquire; the ability to turn on - screen buttons on and off so you can open up more screen real estate; and new capabilities that let you easily add more settings to your Quick Settings menu.
Screencast makes it easy to record whatever's happening on the display, while Torch is a fancy name for activating the handset's rear - facing flashlight.
Here's a quick
screencast that details 9 different online tools to
make your resume on the fly.