Thing 2: ScreenCasting

Oh boy... this was one thing that I wasn't sure of for myself when I saw it on the list of to-dos... but after watching and learning more about the possibilities I am hooked.  I love several of the programs that are out there including Screenr.com and Screencast-o-matic.com.  I lost internet at our house so I have been planning to record at school today, but lo and behold my computer here at work will not let me use Java!  Argh!  I was planning on doing a small screencast of how to find the OPAC and do a simple search.  I have one more idea to see if it will work here, but I am not sure I can get it to work.  Will post again if I can or come up with something else....

I also looked at present.me.  That is great!  I would love to have my fifth graders do a presentation with this site this year!  I had tried other things in the past but it got overwhelming for them.  If they could create the slides in PowerPoint then move them over and record themselves I think they would get a kick out of seeing themselves on the screen as well as using the common core standards of presenting and technologies.  I could even have my fourth graders present one or two slides instead of an individual presentation.  I looked through some of the sites ideas and love the idea of using it for sign language as well.  I teach my kindergartens some sign language and this would be fun for them to see on the screen.


UPDATE:  I had to switch computers and it lets students run java, but not on my computer.  I used screenr.com to create a simple catalog search... the first one the sound didn't work and the next computer wouldn't go past the login screen once the screencast was made... argh!   I have to go pick up my son but will try these again on a different computer this week.  The site is super easy to use and if you plan out what you want to say and demonstrate it goes great!  Wish me luck for later this week to try once again!