Thing #19

The screencast itself was easy. I used Screener and found the one minute video to be helpful. Trying to narrate as I clicked through the slides was not so easy. I redid it about 10 times. I'm still not really happy with the final product, but it's getting late and I really need to go to bed! I will never finish my 23 things if I spend any more time on Thing #19. Other than the fact that I kept changing what I wanted to say and continued to "try again" so many times, it was fun to do. I'm not sure how I will use screencasting in my classroom but I have a few ideas. I am glad I learned how screencasting works and hope to do something with it in the future.

Last year, I put several math NoteBook files in the first grade folder on the NPS public drive for teaches across the district to use. This year all K and 1 teachers will have access to a SmartBoard in their classroom. Since more teachers will be able to use the files, I decided to make this screencast to introduce them to the calendar activity file that I use each day. As the year progresses and new skills are introduced, new slides are added. I have updated last years slides over the summer and have even added song links to many of them. These are songs that I discovered on You Tube while taking this PD. When school begins I will send Wendy a copy of the updated calendar activities to add to the public folder.