screencasting pd

Making short online lessons to support learning - Screencasts using Screencast-o-matic or Powerpoints with voice

Tech Talk Tuesday - session 2Pauline Porcaro - CoB ADG

‘Coined by Udell (2005), screencasting is a way to present “digitally recorded playback of computer screen output which often contains audio narration” and to visually demonstrate procedural information to students’

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ913857.pdf

BrainstormConsider your specific discipline. How could you use screencasts. What are the benefits in your discipline

of screencasting?

N.B.Add to existing

information; do not duplicate

Remember scaffolding

Design with active involvement in mind

Good for revision

A Model

http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/hobart11/downloads/papers/Loch-concise.pdf

Design steps and ideasPlace in context - why do they need to know?

Refer back to the appropriate prerequisite knowledge

Have an activity around it to check understanding

Create a community page/space for asking questions about it

Ask students to pause; work out an answer before continuing

Perhaps use as assessment or classroom activity - students can create one and vote on the best

Some resourcesKathy Shrock has an interesting Blog about all things educational

See her Blog on Screencasting

‘ Screencasts produced as learning support for these students have definite benefits as learners have flexibility in accessing the resources at their convenience, and they can watch step by step model explanations of concepts and operations.’

Loch and McLoughlin 2011

An Asciliite article on the instructional design of Screencasting

A study

Some softwareScreencast-o-matic - maximum time 15 minutes - you get a URL you can share in Blackboard - 15 minutes maximum - easy to use

Jing - maximum 5 minutes - is a downloadable file you can pop in Blackboard but plays in Flash so no good for iPads etc

Snagit - this is excellent but has some problems inside RMIT

Show Me - iPad

Explain Everything - iPad

To order additional software

RMIT Get It

Recording voiceover on PowerpointThese videos will help you get started -

For basic steps in recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFmntINu_cI

For converting your Powerpoint to Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFmntINu_cI

For making a YouTube video with your Powerpoint - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFmntINu_cI

Or for better quality sound use Screencast -o-Matic over your Powerpoint, see this short example

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