Screencast Activity


I chose to complete the screencast activity with a lesson that I am teaching this upcoming week in my 4th grade technology classes. The students in my classes will be logging into Typing Club for the first time. I am thinking that by showing them the process with this screencast it will eliminate most of the questions about what to put in for usernames and passwords. 

I chose Screencast-O-Matic to create this short screencast. I found the user interface to be really easy and loved that you can set your own capture frame. I didn't have to close out of my many tabs open for working on this course just to shoot my short instructional screencast!

I anticipate using this screencast tool for my technology students as it is easier to do it once and record it than to try to always recreate it on the fly. I teach so many sections of the same class that this will definitely be a time saver. I am also thinking that I will most likely embed the videos into a slide show for each lesson. 



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  1. UnknownNovember 22, 2017 at 6:37 PM

    I love this tool for giving students simple directions- I think this generation tends to appreciate these short video tutorials vs. us standing up in front of them giving directions!

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