TECS+at+Bucks+2011

toc =TECS@Bucks 2011= Bucks County Community College Newtown, PA

Technology for K-12 Classrooms (flyer) - Files posted at @http://www.mediafire.com/?y194isbwxmlpp

I (Ed Bujak) presented two 2.5-hours hands-on sessions:
 * 1) Creating Screencasts for transparent 365/24/7 student support
 * 2) Web 2.0 / Cloud Computing Smackdown

• Creating Screencasts for transparent 365/24/7 student support
You are recording what is __on__ the screen. If you can get "it" to appear on the screen, it can be recorded. Audio can be recorded with the video or added afterward.

• Example screencasts (free for all with comments)

 * Khan Academy - author is only heard and writes using a graphics tablet.
 * Vicki Hart - (math doodling) - document camera, hear author and see the authors hand as she writes on paper.Note speed up of video and overlay of audio.
 * _ - Notes: videos of a teacher presenting on a board -not a screencast
 * Mathematica Demonstrations - not a screencast, but a constructed dynamic interactive virtual manipulative
 * Mathcasts - Watch a 5 minute presentation about mathcasts
 * GeoGebra casts - vast teachers screencasts on many topics
 * pencasts - smartpen synchronized audio/video - such as the Livescribe Pulse or Livescribe Echo smartpens
 * Interactive WhiteBoard (IWB) - captures - are effectively screencasts, but the screen is the IWB.
 * Cross Product (math) - done with PowerPoint animation and screencast'ed.
 * many splash screens have small introductory screencasts of their product(s) - easier to watch, listen, and learn rather then read

• Questions

 * Why? -
 * supports a flipped classroom - lesson is in the cloud
 * store your novel work -or- archive students' work. It is not just simple screen snapshots of still images. Screencasts are audio, video, written, visual explanations.
 * When? - anytime, but do not record material that is already done (stop wasting your time)
 * Where? - anywhere with minimal hardware
 * How? - we will learn/practice this

• "3" classes of screencasting (capture and production) tools

 * 1) Application
 * full featured, but $$ – such as Camtasia Studio - www.techsmith.com
 * restricted features, but free – such as Jing - www.techsmith.com
 * 1) Web 2.0/Cloud-based – such as Screenr -

**• Tips**
 * 1) Cursors - non-flashing and big, stop moving it!! - information document: []
 * 2) Practice. Practice. Practice.
 * Tablet and/or (I showed my Wacom Intuos3 4X6 USB tablet)
 * Document camera (use thick pen/markers) - I demoed my personal $80 IPEVO document camera)
 * 1) screencast demo (5:00) - video on creating a screencast - from mathtrain.tv, usnig paint program and Camtasia Studio
 * 2) screencast ingredients (1:26) - video - from mathtrain.tv - tablet, microphone, Camtasia Studio (and/or Jing)
 * 3) Input devices for screencasting (12:03) from TechSmith
 * 4) [|The Forge] - from Techsmith
 * 5) auxiliary applications - graphing calculator emulator, webcam/camera/video-camera for auxiliary input, ...

• Resources:

 * www.bucks.edu/academics/faculty-web/teachingtools/screencapturetools
 * www.bucks.edu/academics/faculty-web/teachingtools/presentationtools
 * http://edwardbujak.wikispaces.com/Computer+Science - look at some sample screencasts of student work, captures with Camtasia Studio, Jing, and Screenr
 * @http://wiki.wesfryer.com/t4t/resources/screencasting

• Screencasting

 * Screenr - Web 2.0
 * Jing - applicication installed on computer (so it's not totally Web 2.0), but your produced SWF (shock Wave Flash) videos can be hosted in the could

• Resources:

 * http://edwardbujak.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0
 * www.bucks.edu/academics/faculty-web
 * www.bucks.edu/academics/faculty-web/teachingtools/web20tools
 * www.bucks.edu/academics/faculty-web/teachingtools/web20techniques
 * www.bucks.edu/academics/faculty-web/teachingtools/internettools
 * www.scribd.com/doc/53360406/What-is-Web-2-0-Ideas-Technologies-and-Implications-for-Education