PowerPoint Screencast (Camtasia): https://youtu.be/h5g3GGMThnE
Screencasting for Pedagogy
Screencasting is useful for teaching in many ways:
Class management:
Periodic announcements and reminders:
Tool Demos:
Two Geography Tools (Snagit for Chrome): https://youtu.be/vvXneKx9KDo
Footnotes in Word (Camtasia): https://youtu.be/UUS1ehWBnZY
Editing in YouTube: https://youtu.be/pXavgSZmIys
Students: Sharing video in D2L (Snagit for Chrome): https://youtu.be/SMUr3RGgvuc
Teaching video production
You can find tutorials on YouTube, but they often contain more than your students need (including advertising.) Here’s a good one for iMovie: https://youtu.be/GKu5p4e4CbY.
I make my own screencasts: short, and focused on what my students need: PowerPoint Screencast (Camtasia): https://youtu.be/h5g3GGMThnE
Basic: Use Screencasting to Teach Content Creation Mechanics, Procedures
Example: Mechanics of Simple Video
Other possibilities:
Review document (syllabus. Primary source.)
Feedback on papers (no writing, clumsy Word markup.)
Sundry how-tos.
Assignment: PowerPoint for Slide Video
Simple intro to narrated documentaries
Intro to YouTube
Recording Screencasts: Technics
Screencaster Options
Jing - quick, easy, but requires upload to screencast.com, and use of flash for playback.
Snagit for Chrome discontinued
High End: Camtasia.
Expensive, but educator discount
Worth having if you produce lots
Key feature: pan-zoom.
Current using: Screencast-O-Matic
Free: 15 minute video with watermark
Easy to Use
All basic options needed
$15/yr: no watermark
Longer than 15 minutes? Probably not good
Hosting: YouTube
Screencast-o-Matic
Can host 2 hours free.
Embeds.
YouTube/Google Drive
GAFE account.
Link/Embed
YouTube: simple editor.
Google Drive in GAFE: might have special sharing options within school domain.
Recording Screencasts: Prep
Quick updates: no script. Just record.
Explicit: different media. Video correspondence, not professional product.
“Capital” videos: use a script
Demonstrate good work: clean, scripted, edited.
Short, Simple, Direct
Leave pauses in recording. “Breaks” for editing.