Over the years I have used so many screencasts located on line that have been so helpful in instruction, especially with my math class. I recently gave my first effort at making my own screen cast to use with my kids. I chose to use Educreations because it was an app I was familiar with. I discovered many things.
1. you can pre-make pages and add more pages to your screencast to be written on as you speak.
2. It is really difficult to write neatly with a stylus.
3. I needed to record and re-record several times in order to get a screencast worthy of showing my class. (Although it is far from error free!)
4. I sent it through synergy to my parents and students in my math class but only about half the class watched it. Upon investigation I have 7 kids with no internet access at their house.
5. Flipping the classroom would be nice, but I feel we would need to watch it here at school too.
6. My kids gave me 2 stars and a wish for my efforts and I discovered they are way kinder and more positive than I deserved! They also had some great tips for improvement.
7. They would like to try to make a screencast for instruction...way cool. Here is a link to my screencast!
https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/triangles/30110962/?s=MyUGkV&ref=appemail
Hi Diane, nice work on your triangle "flipped" lesson. I learned a lot.:) I love that you had students give you two stars and a wish! It's interesting to see that they would like to create a screencast. That's a perfect example of having students use technology for creating.
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