Screencasts
Screencasts are an excellent tool for teachers to use as a means to determine students' understanding. By asking students to create screencasts, teachers are able to determine students understanding and knowledge on a specific skill or concept. Student-created screencasts allow teachers to see and hear in the students explain the concept or process in their own words, replay student work to identify misconceptions, incorrect procedures, etc.
Explain Everything
- App
- Website
- Students record their voices on Explain Everything app screen
- Excellent screen recorder with a variety of options
- Launching collaborative component March 16, 2016!
- Saved directly to the iPad and then can be saved to Google Drive, an LMS such as Schoology, to iMovie to add titles and edit out mistakes, etc.
Shadow Puppet Edu
- App
- Students can add voiceover narration, music, or both, while flipping through photos, if needed
- While recording, draw on app screen, interact with images, swipe between images
- Built-in educational image search: Library of Congress, NASA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NOAA and more
- Built-in web image search using Fair use or Creative Commons images, clipart and web images
- Built-in maps search - clip images from maps and satellite maps
- Automatic image credits added to end of videos to cite sources
- Can share immediately by email link, social media, YouTube, as well as video export to camera roll; can embed on website or blog
- Offers Common Core activities
Knowmia Teach
- Teachers create an "assignment" by using Knowmia's lesson library or creating their own video lesson
- Using the "Assignment Wizard," teachers create assignments which have three components: video lesson, slide, questions
- Video lesson - short teacher-created screencast
- Slide - similar to a web page; purpose is to give directions or explain content topics or concepts. Using a Rich Text Editor, teacher can add text, images, tables, etc.
- Questions - add multiple choice, numeric, open-ended, and/or textbook questions
- Student Accounts available so students can create video lessons, too (videos are not public and expire after 30 days)
- Example of U. S. History Assignment
Track students' progress: who opened assignment, when assignment was submitted, amount of time spent viewing a video lesson, how questions were answered and the score received