Screencasting for the Flipped or Hybrid Classroom

1. Greeting and statement of goal

a. At the end of this lesson, you will have experience with
three different types of screencasting tools to use at your
disposal for the purpose of reaching students and/or
parents
2. What is screencasting?
a. According to Kathy Schrock1:
i. Screencasting is the capture all of the action on a
computer screen while you are narrating.
Screencasts can be made with many tools and are
often used to create a tutorial or showcase
student content mastery.
ii. Create tutorial
1. Youve heard of Khan Academy and Ten Marks
and how they show videos to teach a skill. We
can do the same thing, easily, to customize our
content to a specific student group.
2. Flipped Classroom-Teach or share a skill to your
website for students or parents to view from
home, possibly generating family discussion,
that would lend itself to conversation or followup skills the next day in class.
3. Hybrid Learning-Grouping students into small
groups that focus on individual, one-on-one,
and collaborative learning opportunities lends
itself to creating custom screencasting that
could allow for differentiation for certain
students.
iii. Showcase student content mastery
1. Flip the focus-give students an opportunity to
create and show of what theyve learned. This
could be an alternative to class presentations
and can be shown online for other students
and parents to view.
b. Pedagogy
i. Students can view videos again and again,
cementing a concept or allowing students to develop
questions regarding concept.
ii. Students learn by seeing and hearing.
iii. Your voice lends to student comfortability, allowing
them to still be taught by you and not a stranger
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iv. Could give directions for students, offer feedback,

review a lesson, etc.
v. Should be short to hold students attention
Lets look at some tools of the trade
a. Screencast-o-Matic (http://screencast-o-matic.com)
i. Record directly on the website or download the
program.
ii. Record voice and face (if camera enabled).
iii. Highlights mouse movement and clicks.
iv. Lets record a brief sample together.
1. Ill show you the steps to record how to change
the font, size, and color of text in a Word
document.
b. Educreations
i. A student favorite for its ease of use
ii. Choose from a blank page, lined paper, or grid paper,
along with a variety of colors.
iii. Press record, speak, and write/draw.
iv. Add text or image; you can even take a picture
v. Export to video file
vi. Upgrade to the paid version to insert a file or map
1. Lets record a quick one together that will
explain the water cycle.
c. Explain Everything
i. Educreations on steroids
ii. Add existing photo/video, take new pictures/video,
add files, websites, or sounds
iii. Has a laser pointer!
iv. Loaded with options!
1. Group, Duplicate, Copy, Paste, add shapes,
shadows, borders, text, etc.
v. Export to almost anywhere!
1. Lets take some pictures of one of you doing a
pushup and discuss your form.
Go Play!
a. Split up into 4 groups of 3.
b. Choose one of the screencasting programs.
c. Share with the group via screencast how you could use this
technology with your students.
d. Present screencasts to group.
How to upload video to a website (YouTube or website).
a. Use one of the created videos for the session as an
example.
Final thoughts or questions from the group?
If theres time, teachers may continue to practice.
Resources

a. The Screencasting Handbook:

http://thescreencastinghandbook.com/wpcontent/uploads/The_Screencasting_Handbook_rel10_2010
0502_v6.pdf
b. Cybraryman: http://cybraryman.com/screencasts.html
c. Redefining Learning Through Screencasts:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/redefining-learning-throughscreencasting-beth-holland