Thing 6- Screencasting

Explore Screencasts 

Money Review- This is a video created by a teacher that was made for the students to practice adding money and dollar bills. The teacher asks the viewers to pause the video so they could complete the problem then he shows how got to the correct total so students can compare their answers and steps.  http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/money-review/6475497/?ref=app

Money Unit Intro Lesson-This lessons was also created by a teacher to begin her unit on adding money under $1.00. She gave examples http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/money-unit-intro-lesson/7374192/?ref=app

Reflection: I liked the Money Unit Intro Lesson and thought it was more effective than the Money Review. Although they both used actual coins and dollar bill images the Intro Lesson video had more effective annotations. I also find it hard to believe that students would pause the video to practice independently like the Money Review video asked the students to do. I know they should but will they? And if they don't practice they aren't going to have a clue what is going on in class. The Intro Lesson was clean, which is how I am or I get easily distracted, and included a variety of colors and text. The Money Review presenter was also going quickly. I liked at the end of the Intro Lesson the teacher left the students with a problem they needed to bring into class so it kept the students engaged until the end.
   I felt that by searching through the lessons I learned a lot about what I felt would be important in a video I made for my class. It would need to be short with visuals and clear explanations. I shouldn't be doing a lot of annotations because that would easily distract some of my students. I liked the idea of students interacting with the material and showing me evidence that they watched what I had created to help them learn.

Create a Screencast

I created a screen cast on teeth brushing.

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/toothbrushing/18717850/?ref=appemail

I used soundcloud to record my reflection: https://soundcloud.com/meaghan-garbutt/sounds-from-sunday-evening

I was really impressed with the quality of the recording and how easy it was to use!