Introducing Screencasting into the Classroom
Screencasting is a great digital tool that can help to clearly express and demonstrate lessons and skills that you want to teach your students. Throughout my time at Wilkes, I have created many screencasts for different assignments. It is a great tool that I utilized during virtual learning as well. I would use a tool called Loom. I used Loom to record my read alouds and math lessons, so that they would be available for students to watch as many times as they needed.
Depending on the age of your students, Screencasting could be used as a formative response tool. Students can record themselves answering questions that relate to the content of your lessons. I think this would be a great technology tool to incorporate in your upper elementary to college level classroom. However, I feel that for the lower elementary you could use it as a resource that would help students to better understand certain concepts.
Screencasts provide engaging and differentiated ways of presenting concepts and information to students. Screencasts are also a great tool for students to use to complete presentations and activities. Control Alt Achieve provides an article that goes into an in-depth review of seven different ways to utilize screencasts to their full potential.
However, Screencasting can have some pitfalls. The one challenge I can think of is making sure that you have an adequate amount of time to investigate and work with the Screencasting tool. As an educator, you would want to take the time to practice and reflect on the best way to utilize screencasts in the classroom. Also, if you were to have students use Screencasting tools, you would need to build lesson plans into your day that teach students how to properly use the tools. This could be viewed as unrealistic and time consuming to some educators. Personally, I feel that introducing screencasts as a tool for students to use in the classroom and outside of the classroom would help to improve their future learning and skills.
Below I have featured an infographic that lists amazing screencasting tools that can be used for the classroom:
Eric Curts. (2017). 7 Super Screencasting Activities for School. Control Alt Achieve. https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2017/01/screencasting-activities.html
ReplyDeleteHi Amanda, that platform you used, Loom, sounds like it would have been a great resource during Covid virtual days. Elementary could use screencasting to better their understanding of different subjects. When researching for my blog post, I saw one idea for conferencing, and I might do it. Many parents still need to sign up, which will be an excellent way to let them know their child needs help. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Amanda, thank you for sharing! We love Loom at our school too! Even our students have gotten used to using it and many times complete assignments using it. I teach Spanish at the High School level so many assignments require them to speak. It's been a wonderful tool to incorporate into my teaching and assignments.
ReplyDeleteHi Amanda, I also have used Loom before during a class I have taken at Wilkes. It is a great resource for students to have a lesson or video at their discretion. I have learned that it is a great resource for students to use at home if they have questions, but they do not have direct access to the teacher. I totally agree with the idea of having lessons built in to just show how to navigate screencast. Learning how to use a resource is a task in itself. Awesome job!
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