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Developing educational screencasts: practical tips and pedagogical issues

Developing educational screencasts: practical tips and pedagogical issues. Damien Raftery Teaching and Learning Centre Institute of Technology Carlow eLearning Development Officer http://elearn.itcarlow.ie. Developing educational screencasts. What is a screencast? Potential uses

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Developing educational screencasts: practical tips and pedagogical issues

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  1. Developing educational screencasts: practical tips and pedagogical issues Damien Raftery Teaching and Learning Centre Institute of Technology Carlow eLearning Development Officerhttp://elearn.itcarlow.ie

  2. Developing educational screencasts • What is a screencast? • Potential uses • Examples and exemplars • Word of caution • Screen capture process • Screen capture software • Recording with Screenr.com • Publishing • References

  3. What is a screencast? • A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen activity, often containing audio narration • Budgettet al (2007) • … a “look over my shoulder” effect similar to one-on-one instruction • … access whenever and wherever it is convenient • Educause Learning Initiative(2006)

  4. What is a screencast? • … appeals to different learning styles • … more approachable than glitzy packaged instructional videos • Kanter B (2008) • Podcasting is Dead. Long Live Video! • Cann A J (2007) • Builds on existing teaching expertise

  5. Potential uses • introducing a module • providing guidelines or giving an overview • reviewing a difficult concept • previewing a forthcoming lecture, reviewing or summarising a previous lecture • supporting an activity or project • revising for a test • answering frequently asked questions

  6. Software example using Jing

  7. Potential uses • demonstrating a software or website feature (particularly useful for software that students have limited access to) • illustrating the steps to solve a problem • explaining a technical diagram or picture • correcting or giving feedback • Raftery D (2010) • handwriting a solution using a tablet with voice-overs (mathcasts) • Bonningtonet al (2007), Budgettet al (2007), Fahlberget al (2007)

  8. Mathcast example using Screenr

  9. Some examples • Screenr.com • downloaded MP4 • http://screenr.com/user/damienraftery • Jing & screencast.com • http://www.screencast.com/t/BrtTyut5 • Adobe Captivate • http://elearn.itcarlow.ie/bb/blackboard.htm

  10. Exemplars • http://demogirl.com/ • a blog with short screencasts explaining new internet applications and services, useful to see some good screencasts and Molly McDonald explains how she makes a screencast (http://demogirl.com/2008/01/14/want-to-see-how-i-make-a-screencast/) • http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ • Russell Stannard's website is a collection of screencasts to help teachers incorporate technology into their teaching. It demonstrates the usefulness of screencasts, and has a series of screencasts on using Camtasia • http://scraster.com/ • a website of a professional screencast creation company, including examples, a blog and a short screencast overview of the company approach to creating screencasts (http://scraster.com/82/scraster-professional-screencasting-a-3-minute-introduction-2/) • http://www.lynda.com/ • website of provider of educational materials on using technology. Many of their courses comprise of a series of screencasts and it provides an opportunity to review some high quality screencasts. • Raftery D (2010)

  11. Word of caution • Watching a screencast can be passive • Need to think about • where your students will use the screencast? • computer lab v. online (Articulate example) • how your students will use the screencast? • what your students will do before watching? whilst watching? after watching? • Need to be SHORT, also • student-focused rather than teacher-focused • pedagogically-led rather than technology-led

  12. Screen capture process - Raftery D (2010) See also Mount N & Chambers C (2008) and Oud J (2009)

  13. Screen capture software Also Techsmith’sCamtasia and many more

  14. The Rapid E-Learning Blog • How to Use This Free Screencasting Tool for E-Learning • overview of using screenr with tips • How to Create Screencasts You Can Be Proud Of • full of useful tips on creating screencasts • links to 100 eLearning tutorials created using Screenr

  15. Screenr.com • Go to http://twitter.com • create a twitter account • Go to http://screenr.com • watch the 1-minute tour • record a 15 second screencast • upload (using your Twitter account) • embed your screencast in Blackboard

  16. Jing and screencast.com Alternative free tool • http://jingproject.com/ • install Jing (download or files in H:\elearn\Jing) • http://www.screencast.com/ • create a screencast.com account

  17. Publishingsharing your screencast • Upload to screenr.com or screencast.com (or upload to YouTube) • link to or embed from Blackboard • Or upload MP4 or SWF file into Blackboard Embedding in Blackboard

  18. References • Bonnington C P, Oates G, Parnell S, Paterson J and Stratton W (2007) ‘A report on the use of tablet technology and screen recording software in tertiary mathematics courses’ 6th Southern Hemisphere Conference on Mathematics and Statistics Teaching and Learninghttp://www.bonnington.org/publications/TabletLectureRecording.pdf • Budgett S, Cumming J and Miller C (2007) ‘The role of Screencasting in statistics courses’ Paper presented at the International Statistical Institute conference (Lisbon) • Cann A J (2007) Podcasting is Dead. Long Live Video! www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-C1.pdf • Costello E (2008) “Developing Educational Resources Using Camtasia Studio” NDLR workshop presentation http://www.ndlr.ie/mshe/ • Educause Learning Initiative(2006) “Screencasting and education” http://www.ourmedia.org/node/255213 • Fahlberg T, Fahlberg-Stojanovska L and MacNeil G (2007) “Whiteboard math movies” Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications 26(1) • Kanter B (2008) “Screencasting Primer” http://screencastingprimer.wikispaces.com/primer • Mount, N. & Chambers, C. (2008). Podcasting and practicals. In G. Salmon & P. Edirisingha (Eds.), Podcasting for Learning in Universities. (pp. 43-56).Berkshire: Open University Press. • Oud, J. (2009). Guidelines for effective online instruction using multimedia screencasts. Reference Services Review, 37(2), 164-177. • PetersonE (2007) “Incorporating Screencasts in Online Teaching” http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/viewArticle/495/935 • Raftery, D. (2010) ‘Developing educational screencasts – a practitioner’s perspective’ in Donnelly, R., Harvey, J., and O’Rourke, K., eds., Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning in Higher Education: Theory into Practice, Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. [In progress] • The Rapid E-Learning Blog, http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

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