This week in my college Technology class, we worked on learning how to screencast with Screencastify. The task of the day was to make a screencast video focused on either the platform Epic! or Unsplash. One of my classmates and I made a screencast video talking about the online platform called that actually turned out pretty okay, and I’m proud of that, considering technology can be really confusing to me. Epic was an awesome platform, and it was a lot of fun to explore, considering I have had a good amount of experience with Unsplash on my previous posts.
I will admit that it was a bit of a challenge to figure out how to edit and upload this video, but I felt good about doing the screen casting once I had taken a couple of tries at it, which makes me confident that others could figure it out, too.
Screen casting is a very useful tool for students and teachers alike. Many students have insecurities about showing their faces in videos or presentations they have to submit, but screen casting makes this problem so easy to fix. With screen casting, you’re able to show whatever you want to show on your screen without needing to have your face in the video at all. It allows students to learn at their own pace, allowing them to pause, rewind, and turn it off when they feel it is necessary. This is also nice for teachers because you can create online tutorials for the work you are doing in class, and you are also able to guide students through their computers if they are having difficulties accessing something. These videos can be frequently reused throughout the years for your classes and potentially sent to students who have missed a lesson in order to catch up
Provided below is a website that talks a bit more about screencasting and also provides some resources if you want to experiment with screencasting yourself.
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