Today we had guest Rich McCue come in to our class to discuss screencasting and embedding videos in to our blogs. I’m really happy we were able to work on this skill today as I hope to provide my future students with as many online resources as possible. I think tutorials are very useful to have on a class website as they allow students to follow step-by-step instructions and avoid confusion when trying to complete tasks on their own. It was a lot easier to create a screen casted video than I had originally thought it would be.
We also talked about editing, renaming, and publishing the video onto our websites.
I created my screencasted tutorial using the UVic Library website. I gave a step-by-step tutorial on how to search for picture books on the website as an education student. This skill also applies to my Free Inquiry Project as I am reviewing children’s picture books. I had to figure out the library website on my own, so I think it may be helpful for my future classmates to know how to locate the online selection of “children’s literature.” The UVic online library is a great tool for education students to use because it categorizes books based on different topics (see 1:05 in screencasted tutorial below), making it easier to choose which books you may need for different lesson plans, assignments, etc.
Here is my screencasted tutorial: