Screencasting

=Consider these scenarios:=


 * You want your students to know how to complete a certain activity on the Web -- to see where to click, what to type, how to format it -- so you create a screencast.
 * You want students to explain how they solved a math problem as they do it. You instruct them to use a screencasting tool to capture their voice as they explain how they solve the problem. They type out the steps as they discuss them. You collect their finished files via moodle.
 * You want students to discuss a piece of writing. They open a Word doc of the writing, open their screencasting tool, and record themselves as they scroll through the writing and critique it together.
 * You want to provide extensive feedback to students on their work. You open their writing piece, or a digital image of their artwork, or a webcam picture of their written math work, and then you turn on your screencasting tool and talk to the student. They receive your highly detailed, highly personalized feedback as a video file.

===You can see where this goes...screencasting allows you and your students to capture thinking in real time. The screencast may be about how to use a particular computer program, but more often than not, it will actually be about whatever is showing up ON the computer screen -- writing, math, a map, fine art, a news post...anything!===

Screencasting -- What is it? (Wikipedia) Aly's Diigo List of Screencasting Resources (also includes Podcasting resources) Comparing the Tools -- Which screencast creation tool is the one for you? Screencast-o-matic -- Use the Web to make your screencast Jing -- the local (non-Web-based) screencasting tool The Flipped Classroom -- Using screencasts for Homework and Learning Mastery Aly's Diigo List of Flipped Classroom Resources A Pretty Polished Student Example -- Note that your students would not need to incorporate any special effects. Using Screencasting in Education -- from Jing's website A 13-Year-Old Explains How to use Google Forms -- the content is actually dated, but I offer this as an example of how easy screencasting is! The Screencasting Handbook

Aly's Two Entries on Searching Effectively Within Your Google Docs List: Part I Part II