GOAL By the end of this session, you should be ready to use impromptu screencasts with your students.

Describe the shortcomings of using text and pictures to answer students' questions. Create screencast using Screenr (free, online) or another screen recording tool of choice to respond to a sample question. Save the screencast online and embeded it on a Wikispaces page (if time permits). Share the benefits of using this type of screencasting in your own setting. LEARNING OUTCOMES

INSPIRATION ~~ Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska

PAM’S DILEMMA: I think I broke the wiki!!!

If I had sent Pam these instructions ……

How do you think she would have reacted?

What Pam needed was …….

A SCREENCAST !

Click on the above screencast to play it or view online at http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ei1njyT0Az8?hl=en&fs=1

Screencasts don’t have to be perfect. do have to be personal.

To learn to make a short, impromptu screencast go to https://www.coursesites.com/s/_edmix1 The online screen recording tool used http://www.screenr.com/

When it feels like you’re doing most of the work …

processing Remember that …

The right instructional nudge can set the learning process in motion.