8) 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.
Fourth graders can meet the Common Core Standards and demonstrate their mastery of this 21st century skill by using iPad
screencasting apps to explain their thinking.
Holland of EdTech Teacher looks at the SAMR Model as she walks us through ways to redefine learning through
screencasting apps that allow students to combine audio, images, drawing, and text to present, tell stories, and explain thought processes.
Students can record their voices in
this screencasting app and produce content that demonstrates their understanding of a topic — and can be easily shared with authentic audiences.
Whether you choose Screenchomp, Educreations, ExplainEverything or any other
screencasting app, at the substitution level of SAMR, they all enable the production of PowerPoint - like videos to deliver lecture - based content.
Here's one example that strikes me as particularly interesting: using a tablet with
a screencasting app, teachers can record their students grappling with a problem and reflect on what led to their understanding (or failure to understand).
Try posing those sample questions to your students and have them record their explanation using
a screencasting app.
A screencasting app gives children the ability to create a video that shows them writing on their iPad screen and captures their voice as they solve a word problem.
Instead of jumping into class discussion (where they might be hesitant to share), students use
a screencasting app to record their thoughts.
Older students might use
a screencasting app such as Explain Everything or Educreations to show their mathematical problem solving, create a book trailer from their summer reading, or publish a public service announcement (PSA) about appropriate iPad use in the classroom.
Students can also use
a screencasting app like Explain Everything to annotate their screenshots and record their voice to demonstrate their understanding.
Reshan Richards, the director of education technology at Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey and the co-creator of the Explain Everything
screencasting app, guest blogs on qualitative formative assessment.
If you're interested in a free and handy
screencast app, you should take a look at Jing.
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.
To use this feature on your device click on
the Screencast app and Tap on Start Screencast.
Not exact matches
There are a few free iPad
apps that I love using for
screencasting.
With a quick search in the
App Store or the Android Market, teachers and students could find alternative
apps for both scanning and
screencasting.
The Screenchomp
app is the perfect choice for trying out
screencasting.
After all those
screencasts, here's a refreshing homegrown video of an elementary student from Taunton School in New Jersey walking us through ShowMe, a free interactive whiteboard
app (for iOS only) that allows students and teachers to create and share tutorials with voiceovers.
In this
screencast, Celeste demonstrates how to upload a Google doc into SeeSaw which is the latest feature available in this excellent digital portfolio
app.
The beauty of Explain Everything is its ability to export
screencasts / videos to cloud services for sharing beyond the
app and the company's website.
Here's an article on 4 compelling ideas for using Book Creator in the classroom Nearpod Appitic website — a large list of
apps, sorted into categories Showbie iAnnotate PDF Educreations — «interactive whiteboard and
screencasting tool» Explain Everything — screen casting and interactive whiteboard tool iDoceo — very comprehensive teacher tool for collecting work samples, organising classes and assessing student work
iTunes
App Store: Educreations — «interactive whiteboard and
screencasting tool» Book Creator — create interactive books on the iPad iTunes U — create and manage online courses MyScript calculator — use your handwriting for calculations
There is dedicated an
app for the
screencast, which can be found in the
app drawer of the device.
Screencast — This was a feature introduced when Android KitKat was announced, but practically it didn't come for any devices except through an
app for the Nexus 5.