Screencasts

This is my screencast about how to write a proper lab report. I felt that this would be important for students to look at and see what the overall layout of a lab report would look like. It would be a good outline to look at and listen to some of my explanations. This would not be the only thing that the students would see on how to write a lab report, but would be something that they could see and use as a reference. I used Jing for this and it was really easy to use. It was straight forward and i had no problems while using it.

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This is my screencast about how to create graphs in Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011. I used screencastle for this screencast. I did not like this program as much as Jing. It was just a little bit different than Jing and not as advanced I don't feel. It worked well for what I wanted to do. There are a few instances where the video is slower than the audio. In this specific screencast, it did not hinder the overall concept that much, but if you are doing intricate things on a computer I would suggest to not use screencastle.

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This is a tutorial on how to use Animoto. This tutorial could apply to anyone that wants to use this program, however, my intent would be for my future students to use this program to generate slideshows of different images that they generate through completing different lab activities. Animoto helps to create a product that is both professional looking and appealing to the ears and eyes. This is something that I feel the students would be attracted to and something that would get the students interested in the content. In part 1 of the 3 parts of the tutorial I used screen jelly as the program to record the screencast. I feel that it was pretty easy to use the program, but there is a small thing that I didn't quite like. It was that you had to use the recorder in the browser and you had to click on the button to start recording and you could see that you had to minimize the window. Also at the end of the screencast, you have to open the window back up and click the stop recording button. This appears on the screencast. It is not a huge deal, however there are other programs that don't require you to do this, so I would recommend other programs or browsers to use.

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This is part 2 of the tutorial on how to use Animoto. It continues on where part one left off. It was created using screenr. Screenr was different in the fact that it needed you to have an account for twitter. This is something that could potentially be a problem based on the school and its desire to block certain websites while on the school network. I liked that it showed the countdown to begin and that you could drag the area you wanted to record to fit what you wanted to do. It was fairly simple to use and was not a lot of hassle to sign up with twitter in order to use it.

[|Link to Par 2 of My Animoto Screencast]

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This is part 3 of the Tutorial on how to use Animoto. It resumes where part two left off. I needed to add in a third tutorial because the limit on screen jelly was 3 minutes. I can see in the future that this limit will be something that will have me choosing another program to produce screencasts with. It is much easier to get the desired message across in a five minute video as opposed to a three minute video.

[|Link to part 3 of the Tutorial for Animoto]

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