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Screencast: Educating and Engaging
My presentation was on the screencast. Screencasting has become
common place ineducational environments in the last 5 years.
Screencasts present a wonderful opportunity foreducators from all
sectors whether primary, secondary, higher, or workforce training
to providerich, engaging learning experiences. The beauty of the
screencast is the ease at which they can
be created with very little technical training or expertise.
There are many free screencasting toolsthat provide professional,
appealing and effective learning opportunities.
The presentation opened with the definition of screencasting and
a brief history. Sincescreencasting lends itself to versatility of
learning content and mediums to present at least five ofthe
instructional strategies supported by screencasts where described.
Based on the learningstrategies presented each was further
developed in the section termedApplications.
Although apparently the advantages of screencasting far outweigh
the disadvantages,screencasting is not a prefect tool for every
learning situation. As a result some of theadvantages and
disadvantages where presented. And finally, because the Screencast
has
educational applications in so many areas I thought it
appropriate to illustrate a few I found eitherextremely effective,
functional or intriguing.
Two of the pieces of information about screencasting that where
not covered in the presentationwhere the countless numbers of
proprietary, free and open source screencasting products thatare
available for educators of all walks. These tools provide to
ability to robust and engaginglearning for any environment be it
face-to-face, blended or distance education. The other stoneleft
unturned was the endless sources of ready for deploy screencast
that have been developedby fellow educators and available for use.
In the event that any one of these multitudes ofscreencasts does
not fit the specific learning objectives than one can be developed
following asimple set of best practice guidelines.
References:
Friedman, J. (n.d.). Common Elements of Effective Screencasts
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Ruffini, M. (n.d.). Screencasting to Engage Learning (EDUCAUSE
Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu.EDUCAUSEreview online. Retrieved September
26, 2013, from
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/screencasting-engage-learning
Sugar, W., Brown, A., & Luterbach, K. (2010). Examining the
anatomy of a screencast:Uncovering common elements and
instructional strategies. The International Review ofResearch in
Open and Distance Learning, 11(3), 120. Retrieved
fromhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/851
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