Screencast Course

Attended an excellent CPD course today (yes, there are some out there) on Screencasting led by Eddie Mack of Glasgow University.

I found it very interesting as they used Camtasia which I have the old version 2 of. I have tried Screencasting before, using the free Auto Screen Recorder but it was hard and time consuming to edit.

With Camtasia it is much easier. I'm hoping that that will be my main mission for 2008-09 to raise attainment by creating my own screencasts for use with Higher and SG Admin.

At Saint Roch's I think my very basic screencasts did help the EAL students a little in Int 2, but if I could do a whole course worth, then who knows?

Perhaps I could even record the past paper solutions as a screencast so the students can just load it up and learn from it?

So hopefully in the next few days I will be bombarding TeacherTube with my own versions. I did like Teach-ICT.com and the way they did it, so I think I will be looking at them as a template.

I do get a bit excited when using new technology and I know my kids do also.

Hopefully I will start publishing more student material online such as their own podcasts... but I am currently involved in a very hush hush project that I don't want to talk about in case it harms our bid. But I think it could be brilliant, if done properly.

Anyway I think I am going to create a few screencasts tonight and upload them to TeacherTube.

Be warned!