Screencasting

Well, I am quite excited about screencasting. I downloaded Camtasia and watched the tutorial at the beginning of the download. Unfortunately, I did not make the actual tutorial. The program I needed to download the images were at my school. I actually thought of two applications where this program would come in handy. One is to make a tutorial for my first grades that taught them how to do our Acclerated Reader program. This is a program were children read a book at their level and then take a comprehension test on the computer. Many schools use this program. At the first grade level is where many students are introduced to the program. The tutorial would take them through the steps of how to get logged on. This may not seem to difficult at first glance, but we are a big school and there are lots of steps involved.

The benefit of having this tutorial is that each student could view it when they are ready. First graders vary in their abilities. Some are ready the first day of school, some in January and some in April. The tutorial would allow the student to view it when they are ready or for review.


The second idea was to make a tutorial for our staff members as they learn how to add pages to their Schoolwires account. Schoolwires does provide some tutorials for the basic stuff, but it would be nice to add some that would include some of the more fun and creative stuff.