Since screencasting is such an important and useful tool for both my tech and social studies classes, I was determined to find another screencasting tool to use. Low and behold, QuickTime--which is already on all of the students' computers--and doesn't require an internet connection to work (double score!) was my solution. QuickTime has a built in screencast tool which I immediately got really excited about. The one downside to it (which Screencast-O-Matic had) is that it doesn't have a pause feature--just a start and stop. So if you mess up, you either have to splice together different screencasts in iMovie, or you have to completely start all over. I made a really quick screencast of a screencast to use for my students to teach them how to use it.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Screencast Project
So earlier this year I blogged about Screencast-O-Matic. Don't get me wrong, I still love this site and the fact that it's free...however, this site has begun to not like our students' computers here at MRH. Arghhh. For some reason, with a recent update on their Macbooks, this awesome website isn't wanting to cooperate and work.
Since screencasting is such an important and useful tool for both my tech and social studies classes, I was determined to find another screencasting tool to use. Low and behold, QuickTime--which is already on all of the students' computers--and doesn't require an internet connection to work (double score!) was my solution. QuickTime has a built in screencast tool which I immediately got really excited about. The one downside to it (which Screencast-O-Matic had) is that it doesn't have a pause feature--just a start and stop. So if you mess up, you either have to splice together different screencasts in iMovie, or you have to completely start all over. I made a really quick screencast of a screencast to use for my students to teach them how to use it.
Our latest project in tech was to create a screencast that would be useful to someone else. Using this doc as a guide for directions, my tech students set out to create screencasts from how to download music, to create a twitter account, to customize shoes on Nike.com. Check out some of the ones they created below. Enjoy!
Since screencasting is such an important and useful tool for both my tech and social studies classes, I was determined to find another screencasting tool to use. Low and behold, QuickTime--which is already on all of the students' computers--and doesn't require an internet connection to work (double score!) was my solution. QuickTime has a built in screencast tool which I immediately got really excited about. The one downside to it (which Screencast-O-Matic had) is that it doesn't have a pause feature--just a start and stop. So if you mess up, you either have to splice together different screencasts in iMovie, or you have to completely start all over. I made a really quick screencast of a screencast to use for my students to teach them how to use it.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Screencast-O-Matic
In my tech class, before we start our massive Show-Me a movie project, we have been exploring different tech web-based programs, so as to have a wide variety of video creation options when the time comes to start our video project.
We spent some time making cartoons on xtranormal, and now we've moved on to Screencast-O-Matic, which is a free (yahoooo!) online screencasting tool. At first, the students were like, "Uh, why do we need to learn how to make a screencast?!" I had them search for "how to" videos on YouTube of their favorite game, or something they like to do online. Boy, were they surprised that there were so many "how to" videos out there on almost EVERYTHING they use!
So I set them loose to create their own screencasts on anything they'd like to do: how to create a YouTube account, how to make a new folder on a Mac, and so on. What I like the most about this mini project is that students are becoming the teachers: they're having to figure out how to teach another person via a screencast how to do something on their computer (pretty cool, eh?!). I love this.
Check out some of their screencasts they whipped up...again, I'm super impressed! And if you're a teacher, try doing this with your students! Have an online or computer task that you don't want to keep squawking out over and over to them: turn the task over to a student and have them create a screencast. Then it's a permanent resource for you (and all students!) to refer to if they forget "how to" do that task.
We spent some time making cartoons on xtranormal, and now we've moved on to Screencast-O-Matic, which is a free (yahoooo!) online screencasting tool. At first, the students were like, "Uh, why do we need to learn how to make a screencast?!" I had them search for "how to" videos on YouTube of their favorite game, or something they like to do online. Boy, were they surprised that there were so many "how to" videos out there on almost EVERYTHING they use!
So I set them loose to create their own screencasts on anything they'd like to do: how to create a YouTube account, how to make a new folder on a Mac, and so on. What I like the most about this mini project is that students are becoming the teachers: they're having to figure out how to teach another person via a screencast how to do something on their computer (pretty cool, eh?!). I love this.
Check out some of their screencasts they whipped up...again, I'm super impressed! And if you're a teacher, try doing this with your students! Have an online or computer task that you don't want to keep squawking out over and over to them: turn the task over to a student and have them create a screencast. Then it's a permanent resource for you (and all students!) to refer to if they forget "how to" do that task.
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