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Creating an Effective Screencast: Design Principles & Best Practices

Creating an Effective Screencast: Design Principles & Best Practices. Xiaoxia "Silvie" Huang, Ph.D. Marge Maxwell, Ph.D. School of Teacher Education Western Kentucky University. What is a Screencast?.

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Creating an Effective Screencast: Design Principles & Best Practices

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  1. Creating an Effective Screencast: Design Principles & Best Practices Xiaoxia "Silvie" Huang, Ph.D. Marge Maxwell, Ph.D. School of Teacher Education Western Kentucky University

  2. What is a Screencast? • A digital movie that captures the actions taking place on a computer screen, usually with a voice narration. • Screencasting as a teaching tool: • Tutorials • Demonstrations • Presentations (e.g., Narrated PowerPoint ) • Screencasting & flipped classroom • Screencast examples

  3. Benefits of Screencasts • Reusable content • Personalized learning for students • Self-paced • Anytime, anywhere • Multiple opportunities (repeated plays of the content) • Design for engagement • Sharing is made easy

  4. Screencasting Tools Free tools Screencast-o-matic Jing Screenr Commercial Products Camtasia (Mac $99, Windows $299) Handout available online

  5. Screencasting Process

  6. Design Principles & Best Practices • Focus on student needs • Reduce student cognitive load • Write a script before recording • Think through the actions to capture (sequential steps) • Ideal length: 3 minutes Planning & Scripting

  7. Design Principles & Best Practices • Clean up your browser and computer desktop • Close out Apps • Turn off anything that makes noise • Ensure high-quality audio • Speak slowly and clearly • Avoid narration fillers (umm, ahh…) • Practice, practice, and practice Recording

  8. Design Principles & Best Practices • Add an title • Editing features • Cursor effects • Zoom • Callout • Transitions • Captioning • Audio • Resist the use of “fancy” effects unless necessary • What effects will enhance learning? • What effects will distract learning? Editing

  9. Design Principles & Best Practices • Producing settings • Size • Format • Sharing sites • Course management system (e.g., Moodle, Blackboard) • Blogs, wikis, or other social networking sites • Screencasting sites Producing & Sharing

  10. Questions? Contact Xiaoxia “Silvie” Huang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Instructional Design xiaoxia.huang@wku.edu Marge Maxwell, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Educational Technology, Library Media Education marge.maxwell@wku.edu School of Teacher Education Western Kentucky University

  11. Credits • Creating a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia Studio • Screencasting tips and best practices • Screencasting best practices

  12. Powerpoint and Handout available at http://create-excellence.com/aboutus/marge-maxwell

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