I
have been creating screencasts since May 2012. I have found out how
important it is for me to wear my headset so extraneous noise doesn’t
distract from the video and how important it is to use text tools to
type as much text as I can for a student to see. I find having my
picture in the picture useful to connect with students when they are
viewing my videos outside of my classroom. My students have told me that
shorter videos are better than longer ones. Also keeping one main idea
to a video is best so students can focus on that idea and then create
their connections before moving onto a new idea.
When
I think about my screencasts, I know that screencasts with step by step
directions are very useful for students who lack confidence in their
problem solving skills. As I think about the videos that I have posted
on my youtube channel, the ones that are watched the most are the ones
where I balance chemical equations. The fact that people view them from
all over the world is amazing. It gives me such a good feeling to know
that I am helping many people not just those that are in my classroom.
Some things that my math students struggle with the most are ratios,
fractions, the distributive property, and solving for a variable. I have
made some of those tutorials already but I would like to rework some of
them to better connect my students to the necessary ideas to be
successful.
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