Top Ten Tips for Creating Effective ScreenCasts. Top Ten Tips for Creating Effective ScreenCasts Create great looking screencasts by applying these tips. Includes a screencast video with all the tips explained. I was recently contacted by TechSmith, developers of Camtasia, with an invitation to write an article about my top ten tips for creating a screencast. Rather than just write an article, I created a screencast using Camtasia which covered my top ten tips. The screencast, and the text of the article are below. Top Ten Tips for Effective ScreenCasts More screencasts If you want to see other screencasts I have created, visit our Screencast Area. Making Quality Flipped Class Videos. Dozens of Tips & Techniques for Creating High Quality Engaging Screencasts.
The creation of instructional videos is one of the many technology-enabled capabilities that the 21st century teacher has at their disposal. Instructional videos can be a wonderfully engaging element in teaching. Video content is also usually a fundamental element of the flipped classroom (which regular readers of EmergingEdTech know we’re a big fan of). The low cost of good quality web cams and the availability of free or relatively inexpensive screencasting applications helps to make the development of video learning content easier than ever. Yet all the free or low cost tools in the world do not inevitably yield good quality results.
There is an essential element of technique to be considered. With the above in mind, I’ve searched the web and selected ideas from a handful of good web resources and articles on the subject. From “Making Quality Flipped Class Videos” by Jasper Fox: From “Beginning to Flip you Classroom with Screencasting” on 21things4teachers.net: About Kelly Walsh. Seven Online Classrooms Teachers Can Use to Augment Their Own. Guest writer Samantha Peters brings us an excellent selection of educational video resources. Information is abundant online. The problem is sorting out the useful stuff from the overwhelming amount of junk that exists on the World Wide Web. Educators are all too familiar with the unreliable nature of information found on the web, and most of us are familiar with having to debunk a student’s insistence that a particular fact was true because a nameless website told him so. But the high volume of untrustworthy knowledge should never overshadow the fact that the Internet contains countless sources of invaluable useful information our students can use to learn about the world and improve their own lives.
When it comes to incorporating this knowledge directly into the classroom, educators need look no farther than the following online “classrooms” that are free to use and highly informative. The information is out there. About Kelly Walsh Print This Post. Lessons Worth Sharing | TED-Ed. Flipping the Classroom Facilitates Active Learning Methods.
In a recent exchange in the media, the USA Today news site sensationalized a study under way at Harvey Mudd College, using the headline “‘Flipped classrooms' may not have any impact on learning“1. As the debate rolled out in the media over this, it became apparent that USA Today had taken the study and published information out of context (I know, shocking). In this commentary published the next day by Harvey Mudd teacher and study participant Darryl Yong we learn that, “the article greatly oversimplifies things by portraying our study as an attempt to answer whether flipped classrooms work or not. That kind of research question is too blunt to be useful.”2 I am a firm believer that a key benefit of flipped instruction is that it frees up some time to enable Active Learning in the classroom. Facilitating Active Learning via ‘the Flip' Of course, going down this path doesn't happen without learning, planning, and effort, so I strongly advocate easing into flipped instruction. 1. 2. 3. 5.
Glossi - Your Passion On Display. Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting. Screencasting Tips and Best Practices. For the past three years, I have been doing custom-made video screencasts for private consulting clients. These are moving captures of the images on a PC screen with my own voice-over narrations about IT-related products (you can see the entire collection here). And lately, more vendors have stepped up their own efforts to produce their videos as a way to explain what their products do, or as Mike Lee has said, what they might eventually do.
There is also a growing awareness that these screencasts can be used as way of product documentation and support. Let's talk about what tools you need, some best practices that I have gleaned, and some other places to learn more about this craft. Tool time Here are the tools that I use. PiratePad for collaborative editing. Camtasia Studio for video editing and screen recording. Some tips and best practices Okay, so you have your toolkit. Keep the video simple. What about overall length? It isn't about going viral. Want to learn more? Www.21things4teachers.net/uploads/1/5/4/6/1546201/_beginning_to_flip_your_classroom_with_screencasting.pdf. The Flipped Class: Myths vs. Reality. Editor's Note: On the heels of our viral posts in over 100 countries about the flipped classroom earlier this year (links below), we asked Jon Bergmann if he could share some of the feedback he was receiving in light of the notable interest about this topic.
The timing couldn't have been more perfect since he was about to leave for a conference about you-guessed-it, the flipped class. Here is Part 1 of our three part series The Daily Riff. See Part 2 and 3 links below. - C.J. Westerberg The Flipped Class: What it is and What it is Not by Jon Bergmann, Jerry Overmyer and Brett Wilie There has been a lot of interest in the flipped classroom. The traditional definition of a flipped class is: The Flipped Classroom is NOT: A synonym for online videos.
Originally published The Daily Riff July 2011 Jon Bergmann is one of the first teachers to flip his classroom and has recently co-authored a book on the the Flipped Class which is to be published by ISTE press. Video Montage from Conference Below.