GourdGracious, what a learning curve this one was!! I sailed through the downloads, made the video with numerous trials to capture the fabulousness that surely exists in my voice somewhere, and then tried to upload the video only to find it would not. Although saved in Jing History, my gem of wisdom kept being thwarted partway through the uploading process. By downloading a Windows Uploading tool, the video WAS uploaded by grabbing it from the Videos folder on my computer. Then, low and behold after all those contortions, I had 5 videos saved to a folder in ScreenCast.com. There's nothing like abundance!
It's like growing gourds actually...the plant goes along, and it seems nothing is happening even though the foliage would indicate gobs of growth is present. Then one day, you look under a leaf and YiKes!! gourds exists, bigger than life and abundant as all get-out!! Makes a person believe in magic.
Back to the ScreenCast tutorial: As you know by now, I teach a research class for 7th and 8th grade gifted thinkers. When they are ready to write their paper, one of the tasks is demonstrating how to insert the running head and page numbers. Because everyone moves at an individual pace, this can get repetitive. Here's the fix for that -- not fancy, just functional.
A ScreenCast alleviates the need for walking through the process with each student individually thus allowing for planning and teaching diverse learners. Right now, I am using an educational Facebook hybrid called Edmodo. Edmodo is faster than Edline and works like a secure Facebook between teachers and students. (The students need a password-code to get into the class space.) This tutorial, and many like it covering other details of research will be used to offer guidance on an as-needed basis.
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