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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 workshop, teachers will create and upload screencasts for their classroom. We will cover the use of a free downloadable tool called Jing.

__**Why Screencast?**__ media type="custom" key="8836932"
 * 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.

**Agenda**

 * Welcome
 * Icebreaker - Brainstorming activity using mywebspiration.com
 * Watch some of ours.
 * Screencasting tools:
 * 1) Jing Download & techsmith (today's tool)
 * 2) Creating a screencast.com account
 * 3) Jing Interactive tutorial
 * 4) Picking a topic to screencast
 * 5) Content area
 * 6) Standard based
 * 7) Performance Indicators
 * 8) Using other computer programs to support the creation of screencasting
 * 9) Smartboard Software (Science) Example
 * 10) MS Office
 * 11) Word
 * 12) Excel
 * 13) PowerPoint (ELA) Example
 * 14) One Note (Math) Example
 * 15) Quicktime Pro Example

**Creating your screencast**

 * Planning your script
 * Images
 * Video
 * Audio
 * Programs


 * Doing a dry run
 * Recording with Jing
 * Uploading to screencast.com (2G of storage with free account)
 * Reflecting
 * Evaluation

Resources: Screen Toaster Screencast-O-matic Screencast.com Jing Mathtrain Screencastle screenr screencast-o-matic screenjelly Smart recorder (Part of your SMARTboard software)

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