Screencasts: How to Add Accents on a Glogster.com Poster Project.

How could screen casts be used in your classroom/department?

Screencasts can be used to help teach different computer skills to both students and teachers.
Here is an example of how I have used screencasts for my class.

Screen cast can be used to help teach different computer skills to both students and teachers.
Here is an example of how I have used screencast for my class. French intro students were creating a poster on glogster.com at the beginning of the year. They were required to use the program to present themselves and the first few French words they had learned. Accents being important in French, it was important for them to ensure they typed the correct spelling (with accents) on their poster.

Before screencast: I demonstrated one time on the smartboard to the class how to use accents in their glogster poster. However, I had to go around the classroom and repeat the set of instructions several other times to individual students who had forgotten or not heard it the first time.

After Screencast: I now have created a short video demonstrating how to add accents on a Glogster poster.
I have posted it on my class blog (or Panthernet), and invite students to go watch it as many times as they need. Hopefully, the screen cast will be sufficient in helping them.

Screencasts can be also used to share best practice with other teachers. For example, in response to this blog entry, many teachers from our Coetail class created a sample screencast. There are now many screencasts that we can search within our small network of teachers to learn new skills that will help our students as well as us teachers/learners.