My first experience with screencasts occurred during the last technology class. For our final project, many teachers created pages for a “Doing Stuff” wiki.
To accomplish my part of the project, I used Jing and found it to be very cumbersome. I created a screencast video about finding images on Flickr. Creating it wasn’t too much of a problem; it was waiting for it to load on the wiki page time each time you wanted to use that wiki page that was. Realizing this, I did the next few items with the screen capture and just typed in my comments. This seemed to work better with the wiki.
In spite of my trouble with Jing and my constant battle with that darn Jing sun on my desktop, I do think screencasts are very useful. Teachers can create them for students to show them exactly how to do something. Then the screencast can be posted on blogs or Panthernet for each student to reference as needed. Screencasts can be turned into lessons; students can create screencasts to show other students how to do things. For example, I might have students create screencasts to show different tips and tricks for working with imovie. Once created, all students can reference this information.
Oh No! That annoying Jing sun!!
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