Screencast Assignment

ASSIGNMENT TITLE: Screencast

USES IN THE CLASSROOM: A screencast is a great way for teachers to introduce hardware or software to the classroom that students may be using within the class setting. This can be viewed in the classroom and even outside the classroom to demonstrate how to manipulate the hardware/software.
Screencasts can be created by students to demonstrate mastery of a hardware/software. Students could be asked to create a screencast on how they work with certain hardware/software and then used later to compare how students complete their work the same or differently using the hardware/software.

ISSUES TO CONSIDER: Students would need access to a computer that contains the screencast software, also any hardware/software being used to show the assignment, the internet, and a microphone. There would need to be a good understanding of how to navigate around a computer and also a well planned screencast. This would probably not be a good assignment for lower elementary students, but upper elementary, middle and definitely high school students would be able to create a screencast.

COPYRIGHT: This screencast was created with Camtasia Studio by Elizabeth Selepack, the owner of this blog, on November 10, 2013, and features Microsoft Word 2010.

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This screencast is a basic introduction to using Microsoft Word. The tutorial demonstrates how to open Microsoft Word, enlarge the page to 100% and also down size to view only one page, changing font style and font size and also printing. Please remember this is for the little ones that are just getting introduced to using Microsoft Word and a keyboard.