Saturday, May 21, 2011

Thing #21 - Screen-casting

Jing Screen Cast

Screen casts are very enjoyable to make and are useful tools to publish to your "face of the classroom" website. Below is a Jing screen cast that I made on how to use Microsoft Excel 2007 to make a chart.
This screen recording is also published on my Weebly website at: http://gvbzone.weebly.com/computers.html



Today I showed the screen cast on Excel 2007 to my 6th grade students and they seemed to enjoy it. They gave me a few recommendations including that I should avoid mumbling and try to minimize extra noises such as the processor fan. Perhaps I will need to get an external microphone to use for my recordings.
I am very excited about making additional screen cast tutorials to add to my website. Not only are the fun to make, but they also could be very helpful to my students. The screen cast above took about about 5 minutes to record. Perhaps there is a lot of benefit to keeping screen casts short, but it would be nice at times to also make longer screen casts. Therefore I am interested in experimenting with Screencast-o-Matic to see if I like it as much as Jing. One of the areas in which I would like to develop screen recordings is with some of my PowerPoint presentations. I could also make additional tutorials for my students on how to use a variety of the tools and features of various programs and websites.



Content Standards:

Aligned to NETS-T: 1.a, 1.b,1.c, 1.d, 2.a, 2.b, 2.c, 2.d 3.a, 3.c, 4.b

Connections to Marzano Strategies: Objectives and Feedback; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic Representations




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