Jing+ScreenCast

Jing ScreenCast: Online Classroom Topic: Geometry - Finding Pi





__** Description **__


 * // For this assignment, we were to create a ScreenCast (which is basically akin to recording a movie of actions you take on your computer screen that can be combined with a personal voice-over); I chose to use Jing ( //**[|**//http://www.jingproject.com///**]**// ). //**


 * // We needed to pick a topic we could do justice to through this medium, preferably aligned and useable in our curricular practices as well. Therefore, I chose to do a ScreenCast on how you can use a radial square (a square that has a side-length equal to the radius of a circle) to discover in one way how the ratio of pi is truly found. The screencast, allowing one to show each part permitted me to show how to use this method to prove [within a certain degree of accuracy] the ratio that is 3.14. //**

__** Process **__
 * //For this one, I figured the best bet would be to create a ScreenCast that aligned not only with my content area, but my Virtual Classroom as well. Therefore, I chose to make a ScreenCast that directly reflects a portion of the second lesson in my Virtual Course: Circles and finding Pi. I believe one of the biggest possibilities for this is to help out those homebound students that are down with something that would prevent a teacher coming in to work with them. Authentic instruction is a massive possibility with this program, capable of showing on-screen step-by-step learning. The only thing really missing from this is any sort of interactivity, limiting the students to strictly observer-class situations. Well, that and what I mention in the reflection...

And, heck! I sit here, thinking about the trainings we just had for DCAS and whatnot. Very unintuitive! A ScreenCast would have been a much better way to get that point across for teachers, especially the more visual ones!//**

__** Reflection **__


 * // Is there a program that allows you to edit the work you've done on a ScreenCast? Or is it just straight start to finish, you mess up, the entire thing is there? I ask this because going five minutes straight and not being able to mess up was about one of the hardest things I have had to do thusfar in this Master's program. It took me hours of doing it to get both my on-screen stuff to go smoothly in ADDITION to my voice. That took hours. And more than a few times, I messed up at a point after four minutes and thirty seconds.

To go along with that, as I was making the ScreenCast, I kept thinking of other things I wanted to include or add, but five minutes is not a very long time. I am proud of the finished product, both for what I can do with it, and also as a testament to being able to go five straight minutes with no flubs (granted, that was after many attempts). I also like the ability to use it for the future, even if not in a Virtual Classroom, then in my own practice in a Wikispaces notes page that I'm thinking of putting up for the entire school. //**

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