Screencasts

Check out my YouTube Playlist called “Project Based Learning and the Common Core.” Almost all of these are screencasts that I created using Camtasia Studio, a Logitech C920 webcam and my trusty re-built Win7 PC.

Screencasts have become the mainstay of flipped classroom instruction:

• Targeted instruction.
• Low production value. (Khan Academy emphasized that lesson.)
• Short web distribution, typically YouTube.

Many of these videos were developed with the support of Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District (FSUSD). I focused on how to use the edstop portal and Discovery Streaming, an exceptionally fine subscription service. I had these goals:

1. Create how-to videos of value for teachers and users
2. Organize what I know into a brief video course of study
3. Learn by doing
4. Save time and become efficient
5. Avoid repeating the same explanations again and again

Here are the screencasts:

• ed1stop portal, Part 1 - An introduction (6:46)
• ed1stop portal, Part 2 – How to Manage the Student Account (3:54)
• ed1stop portal, Part 3 – Creating Bookmarks to help Students Find Resources (7:53)
• Discovery Education videos, Part 1 – Starting the Journey (7:27)
• Discovery Education videos, Part 2 – Making Your Own Playlist (6:57)
• Discovery Education videos, Part 3 - Lesson Planning (8:37)
• Discovery Education videos, Part 4 – How to Use Clips in Lessons (8:46)
• ed1stop Student and Parent Login (2:55)
• ed1stop Student and Parent: Using Discovery Education (5:39)