Week #4 Instructional Video

This week I was asked to create an instructional video using a screen cast. I have never done any videos or editing to anything in my life. I found this to be very difficult and will be practicing different methods in the future to see what will work best for myself and my students. Hopefully you find this to be helpful and can practice with your students too.

Uses in the Classroom:
The primary focus for this screen cast was to have students practice sounding out more than one letter sound at a time and with some practice can improve overall test scores.

Copyright:
I used SMART Notebook and the SMART Exchange to create my slides and Jing to screen cast my desktop of my computer. Images are courtesy of John Babinski

Issues to Consider:
I would have loved to include a live stream video into the screen cast but will need to test out several different kinds of screen casting / editing / live video formats to find one that works best with my computer set up. I think for what I was trying to achieve from this instructional video it was overwhelming. I wanted to set up the lesson as much as possible but was limited with time. It would be better off used as a Smartboard activity to give students the opportunity to change the dice letters and practice more. But it gives teachers ideas on what they can set up with SMART products.

 Again I would have loved to embed this into my blog but was unable due to the format used.

 Here is my link so you may check it out:
http://www.screencast.com/t/5J16Jg9E2yQR