Thing 2: Screencasting

Thing 2: Screencasting;

My first attempt at using a sceencasting tool was with screencast-o-matic, a few years ago. I found it very easy to use! The hardest part was being able to read the instruction, I was recording, without making a mistake. Simply impossible, oh well!  At CCS we use NoodleTools with the students, which has amazing resources for teachers and students to use.   Although I model all the steps to complete a Work Cited page, using Noodlebib, the students always forget how to export the Works Cited to a Word document.  I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to use a screencast to record the steps.  I’ve embedded the screencast on my Citation station webpage and a number of my pathfinders.

I’ve wanted to do a sceencast on how to download books from Overdrive, so I gave it a try.  I had my script and I’m  recording, everything was going well, until I got to the Overdrive page and they had the new interface up.  I just went with the flow and continued recording, but stopped short of downloading because I wasn’t sure how it would work. The process took about five minutes, so simply.  I’ve embedded my video here, but I plan to do it over before school starts. I also plan to do a screencast the steps to download to a Nook and to a Kindle.  I could use screenshots of the download for the iphone/ipad, but with the app it's pretty simple.