Screencasting

Would you like to spice up your course tuition? Do you experience often having to repeat certain difficult academic themes over and over again to your students? Would you like to give feedback in a more fun way? To create your own learning resources in modern media? Would you like to supply your students with tools to make better presentation?

In that case you should try Screencasting!

 

Screencasting is recording of your computer screen, where you will be able to add a voice-over. We all know them from small video tutorials explaining how to use this or that program, but naturally the technology can also be used with a pedagogical perspective and Academic IT would like to help you on the one hand to get to learn the tools, and on the other to offer suggestions as to how you as an educator can utilise these in practice. 

Some suggestions could be:

... Present the content of your course as a video appetiser. In part this can create interest in and visibility of your course. Also your video might reach more and others when you add a picture- and audio track and you will be able to unfold your explanations in a different way, instead of just conducting your normal explanation via monologue.

... In five minutes, sum up the lesson of the day and the most important learning points in a screencast. Such a summary can at the same time function as a table of contents for the entire course, as a visual and auditory reading guide for the students, as a brief repetition before exams and in addition it is a reusable learning resource for yourself.

... Give the students feedback on written assignments by recording your corrections and comments, while creating them here. You will experience that you will be able to reuse your corrections, the students will have access to a larger amount of "typical comments" and you will supply your usual written feedback with an enriching auditory track in the form of spoken commentary.

... Activate your students in new ways during and before presentations by letting the record a voice-over to the PowerPoint show they were preparing in any case and have them present in video. You will find that they come better prepared, work more on content as well as form and that the main points will stand out more clearly. Also, it is fun and engaging :-)

 

Academic IT recommend the to free programs Jing (download it here) and Screenr (can be used without downloading here) for quick productions of screencasts. They have differencet characteristics but both are incredibly easy to use. Feel free to start using the tools on your own, but you are also welcome to contact Academic IT at ait-info(at)ruc.dk, if you want to discuss useful applications or just for inspiration. We will gladly help you get started.

 
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