Of the methods we explored in class, I can see myself using the screen casting and videos. I found 2 apps that are easy enough to navigate that even kindergarten students can help create their own video and screen casting. I can also use it and attach them to my own blog. I don't think I would ever make a podcast for this age group. I am a visual learner and utilizing the screencasting can be both visual and auditory. I like using the iPad because it is small, portable, and more and more classrooms are incorporating them in the curriculum. I downloaded the Garage Band app and played around with it to see how to do a podcast. It would be very easy to upload to You Tube at the end, but I can't imagine using this feature in my classroom.
In class trying to navigate the different tools were frustrating to me. I wanted to challenge myself to be able to learn how to do the screencasting in a format on the iPad that I would actually do in the classroom. I know myself, and if there are too many steps or it is too frustrating clicking back and forth between programs, I most likely won't do it. I made two other screen casts that I quickly was able to post to my blog, twitter, You Tube, and the Seesaw app (that is an app used to create classroom portfolio's of students work). The hardest part about this is that I had to take screenshots of everything I wanted to add. Then I had to edit some of those pictures in a different app so I could add a drawing feature to the picture and then take a screen shot of that. This took a lot of planning on my part. I cant do a live screen casting where you can see what is happening on my monitor, it all had to be still pictures. But, once I had all of my pictures, it was extremely easy.
I don't have any questions.
So what it looks like you did Linda was to simulate a screencast but in actuality create a video. I'm not sure what it is about the iPad operating system that makes it difficult to do screencast. But I do think that you'd find true screencasting would be a lot easier than what you pulled together for this demo here. Im impressed to see that you figured things out using a little creative thinking. I'm still thinking Explain Everything is the closest app to screencasting but I just need time to revisit it to remind myself how it works.
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