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#Screencasting for teachers how to#
#Screencasting for teachers professional#
#Screencasting for teachers mac#

There are literally thousands of educational screencast videos on the Web to choose from for a particular lesson.

Many online content related screencasts can be used to supplement and even take the place of direct instruction as in the flip teaching method. The video and audio components can make many instructional topics more engaging than written instructions and static images, while also appealing to different learning styles. Screencasts can be a powerful learning tool and can be used for tutorials, demonstrations, digital storytelling and narrated PowerPoint presentations. As computer technology continues to evolve and advance, many teachers are using screencasting as a valuable teaching tool to enhance the learning experience for students in their classrooms. Screencasting is a great tool for teachers to use in the classroom and has emerged as a prominent teaching tool on the Internet.

#Screencasting for teachers how to#

There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube to show you how to do it.The Teacher Cast Academy is an educational screencasting resource for teachers.

#Screencasting for teachers mac#

Mirroring360 will mirror both Mac and Android.

Three common mirroring apps for iPad are Reflector, Air Server and APowerMirror.

Then use Screencast-O-Matic Deluxe to record and edit the video. This means that what you see on the mobile device will be seen on the computer.

The solution is to mirror your device to a computer.

Note that the vast majority of iPad/tablet apps (if not all of them) do not record the screen - they record inside an app which means you cannot demonstrate accessing other apps, changing settings, etc., something that teachers whose students use iPads need be able to demonstrate via video.

I have not yet seen an iPad or tablet app that records video and allows you to edit to anywhere near the capability of Screencast-O-Matic Deluxe.

But if you are going to record ANYTHING more sophisticated than a 2-minute rough scribble video then you need to be able to edit.

If you want to use an iPad app to record video, go for it.

In this day of mobile-everything, you can be forgiven for thinking that this article is irrelevant for mobile device users.

For an overview of Screencast-O-Matic Deluxe check out the video below In summary, Screencast-O-Matic Deluxe is super value for money and the ideal screencasting-and-editing tool for the vast majority of teachers embarking on this path.

#Screencasting for teachers professional#

Sure, the professional apps are superior to Screencast-O-Matic Deluxe (and so they should be - they are designed to create more sophisticated videos ) but you are also paying for features that most teachers will never need. (I've created hundreds of videos and this still happens to me!) With Screencast-O-Matic Deluxe you can re-record audio for that section, mute the audio on the section to be improved, import the new audio, and you are done.įeatures 3-6 above are usually the domain of ‘professional’ apps that will cost $100 - $250. Let’s say you’ve recorded a 7-minute education screencast but there’s one section where the words you used are either incorrect or you simply became tongue-tied. Screencast-O-Matic Deluxe will also allow you to mix extra images and video footage (recorded on your phone, camera or your screen) into your current screencast.