ScreencastTA

Office of Educational Technology =//Screencasting for Educators//=

Screencasting is capturing and recording your computer screen and activities. As educators this is useful for mini-lessons or sets of instructions. Students can pause and replay these short videos as much as they want! In this 2 day Academy, teachers will create and upload screencasts for their classroom. Day 1 will cover the use of a free downloadable tool called Jing. Day 2 will cover the use of the Smartboard record feature. __**Why Screencast?**__
 * Virtual Classroom
 * How involved you want to get in creating screencasts is up to you. You can create screencasts in advance and use them to bolster up your instruction. Alternatively, you can just record what you're already doing and built a reference archive for your students. **(As seen with the SMART board recorder)** When you first start out, you might find the latter method easier. Remember, technology should aide what you already do, not get in the way. We're going to go pretty in-depth today, take the parts that work best for you and start from there.
 * Differentiation of Topics
 * A big hardship with differentiation is that you can't be in more than one place at the same time and give your full attention to the needs of both students.
 * Students can go back and watch/reteach themselves stuff they may have missed when you originally covered it. Students who are ahead of the curve can use the resources to take what their doing to the next level.
 * Screencasting is not a silver bullet by any stretch of the imagination, but it's one more tool in your arsenal to help your students.
 * Build independence with your students. Create independent learners.
 * This kind of dovetails with the last point—creating a library of resources removes the teacher as the first go-to point when a student gets stumped. Screencasts help students build independence and assess their own learning. If they need to relearn something, they know where to go and what to look up—and because you built the resource, there is less trial-and-error versus randomly hitting up Google.
 * Multiple intelligences.
 * You can explain something verbally a thousand times; that doesn't mean you're going to get through to your visual learners. Screencasts allow students to engage in the material in a number of ways.
 * Makes tasks easier.
 * It's an especially good reference for those tedious, multi-step tasks like uploading a file or a web page—stuff you don't want to repeat over and over again.
 * PD and Parent Communication
 * For a large part of this training, we've talked about using screencasting for teacher and student interaction, but it's not necessarily limited to that.

**Day 1 - Screencasting tools**

 * Welcome
 * Icebreaker - Brainstorming activity using mywebspiration.com
 * Screencasting tools:
 * 1) Jing & techsmith
 * 2) screenr
 * 3) screencast-o-matic
 * 4) screenjelly
 * 5) Smart recorder
 * if you know of any other good resources, tell us!**
 * Planning your script
 * Recording
 * Uploading
 * Reflecting
 * Evaluation

Day 2 - Creating your screencast

 * Welcome
 * Review
 * Choose your tool
 * Planning
 * Recording
 * Exporting
 * Uploading
 * Evaluation

Resources: Screen Toaster Screencast-O-matic Screencast.com Jing Mathtrain Screencastle

__Other Resources:__ [|http://jingproject.com] [|http://camstudio.org] [] [] [] [] [|http://voicethread.com] [|http://zamzar.com] [|http://keepvid.com]