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1. Introduction to Screencasting using Camtasia PETE&C ConferenceHershey Lodge and Convention Center, Hershey, PA February 10-13, 2013Michael F. Ruffini, Ed.D. Bloomsburg University The Teacher Cast Academy – http://www.theteachercastacademy.com

2. Screencasting Focus • Screencasting Overview • Teacher Cast Academy & Resources • Flipped Classroom • Screencasting and the Khan Academy • Educational Screencast Websites • Recording Screencasts • PowerPoint Screencasting Model • Student Benefits • Screencasting Production Steps • Resources • Screencast Tools

3. Screencasting Overview • Screencasts have emerged as a prominent teaching tool on the Internet. • Ascreencast is a digital video and audio recording of what occurs on a presenter’s computer screen and can be used for tutorials, demonstrations, digital storytellingand narrated PowerPoint presentations. • Screencasts are an effective way to share ideas, deliver content, and obtain student feedback. • A screencast can be used in any class as a part of real-time instruction or as the lesson itself as in the flipped teaching model. 

4. Teacher Cast Academy & Resources WEBSITE • The Teacher Cast Academy PETE&C SCREENCAST PRESENTATIONSCREENCASTING ARTICLES • Published a paper entitled, “Screencasting to Engage Learning” with EDUCAUSE REVIEW in the November/December 2012 online issue. • Published a paper entitled, “Creating a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia Studio” with EDUCAUSE REVIEW in the November/December 2012 online issue.

5. Flipped Classroom • The key implementation component for the flipped classroom is the screencast video itself. • The concept is to flip, or reverse, the traditional teaching approach. • As homework, students view an instructor's lecture or presentation via a video screencast containing specific content. • Class time is reserved for answering questions, solving problems, and engaging in collaborative learning activities. Students come to class familiar with the content • Flipped teaching enables instructors to become facilitators of learning and minimize the sage-on-a-stage teaching approach.

6. Screencasting & Kahn Academy • The Kahn Academy is pioneering thousands educational screencasting videos across the curriculum for free. • 60 Minute segment on the Kahn Academy.

7. Educational Screencast Websites • There are two ways to acquire screencast videos to use with a lesson: • Find a screencast video that is already available from YouTube, Kahn Academy, neoK12, TeacherTube andother resources • Takes time and many do not align with lesson objectives. • Create and produce your own screencastusing screencasting tools such as Camtasia Studioand post to Screencast.com • You can align objectives exactly to lesson objectives. • Add – narration – music – video – images – special effects and assessment.

8. Recording Screencasts • Screencasting is increasingly used to record PowerPoint presentations using software such as Camtasia Studio, which can enable an add-in to run the program from within PowerPoint. • There are two general methods for creating an instructional screencast: • Record the computer screen, provide narration, and use a digital tablet and pen to show for example a sequence of steps to solve a math or chemistry problem, in real time. Use a good USB microphone. • Record a PowerPoint presentation with narration and add special effects, images, audio and video.

9. PowerPoint Screencasting Model • Design Model Infusing PowerPoint Battle of The Bulge – Rise of the Third Reich

10. Screencast Student Benefits • The ability to pause or rewind gives students the option to move at their own pace, which is not always feasible in the classroom. • Screencast can organize and sequence contentto objectives. • A screencast is an excellent multimedia presentation format. • Screencasting is a perfect mediumto explain difficult technical concepts to anyone with a non-technical background. • Students themselves can create authentic, content-rich video presentations for their classmates and audiences around the world.

11. Screencasting Production Steps Creating an educational screencast also requires planning. • Topic – give your screencast a specific name related to a content topic from your lesson or unit of instruction.Decide if the content going to be a presentation, tutorial, or demonstration. • Objectives - Specify the learning objectives of the screencast. • Script/Outline- From the objectives write out a script and/or outline. • Record - Make the screencast recording. Keep the screencast no more than 12 minutes. • Post-production – Create a title slide – music sound track – transitions, etc. • Post Screencast - Once you have finished the recording and post-production of your screencast video you can post it to a publically accessible location (Screencast.com), Web, YouTube, etc.).

12. Resources • Camtasia Tutorials • http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia-current.html • Free Screencasting Tools • http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/01/comparing-12-free-screencasting-tools/http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/ • Screencast.com- When you use TechSmith software to create great content, Screencast.com makes it possible to share it easily - Free • http://www.screencast.com/ • Sound Bible – Free sound clips • Animation Factory – Animated Clip Art • Royalty Free Sound Trackshttp://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

13. Screencasting Tools

14. Microphones USB Desktop USB Headset