Screencasting Guide

• Install Debut (free version here)
  Video Pad Editor (free version here)
• Use it to record a one minute screencast video that includes computer sounds, voice narration, and on screen annotation (pointer, drawing, etc).
  Narration can be in English and/or Korean.
   
• Upload the video to your Google Drive or (unlisted) to Youtube and post on your.blog or share it with just your classmates and Jeff. 

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Why?

• Why play a recording of yourself in your own class? 
• Why spend the time planning, recording, and re-recording an instructional presentation you’ve done many times before in front of a ‘live classroom audience’.

‘How?’   

• How do you technically produce a watchable screencast video as painlessly as possible? 
• Perhaps more importantly, how do you organize the content and design the presentation of a screencast to be engaging and effective?

Potential benefits of educational screencasting

• Flipping - Students can watch these instructional videos outside of traditional class time to prepare for the more hands-on application work they will do in class.
  
• Remediation - Students that process information more slowly can watch (and rewatch ) videos as needed.
• Enrichment - Students that are ready for additional content or challenges can use your recorded screencasts to extend their learning.
• Differentiation - There is only one of you, but there can be loads of videos you have created, allowing students to explore different content as needed or desired.
• Consistent Quality- You can give the same instructional presentation five or six times in class with varying degrees of effectiveness or take time to prepare your best and use that multiple times.
• Attention Options - Since you don’t have to focus your mental energies on ‘instruction’. you can focus on student attention and understanding
• Reflective Practice -Even if you don’t use the recording in your classroom, the process of organizing, practicing, and reflecting on how you present lessons will make your teaching better.
• Engagement - we have become a screen obsessed society. Students can be more likely to pay attention to a video than a human, especially personalization and humor are included.

Screencast Software
Free (or freemium) screencasting tools

• Debut (screencast guide) 
• Filmora Scrn
• EZVid
• Screencast-o-Matic
• TinyTake
• Loom 
• Screencastify
• Snagit
• Ocam (BEWARE!)

Commercial

• Camtasia
• Screenflow (Mac)

Pointer Tools

• Pointer Focus

Guides

• Khan Academy Tips for Blackboard Style Videos 
• Technology in the Classroom: Why, How to Screencast
• University of Waterloo’s Screencasting Best Practices

Examples

• Khan Academy: Grammar SAT Reading & Writing Practice
• Writing SMART Goals | English Grammar Teaching Techniques
• Jeff's TILL Screencasts

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• Install Debut
• Use it to record a one minute screencast video that includes computer sounds, voice narration, and on screen annotation (pointer, drawing, etc).
  Narration can be in English and/or Korean.
   
• Upload the video to your Google Drive or (unlisted) to Youtube and post on your.blog or share it with just your classmates and Jeff.