International Peace Day video - classes around the world working together

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><em>Submitted by Fiona Beal</em><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; mso-outline-level: 2;">On Tuesday 16 August I wrote a blog post about a Grade 4 class in the USA wanting to create a peace video for International Peace Day on 21st September (<a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/would-you-like-to-get-involved-in.html">http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/would-you-like-to-get-involved-in.html</a>). This was the message they put out:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"Dear Classrooms Around the Globe,</span></span></span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> <br /><span class="apple-style-span">This year my fourth grade classroom at Lafayette Regional School in Franconia, NH would like to have a big celebration for International Peace Day on Sept 21, 2011. In honor of this day, I would like my fourth graders to create a multi - cultural vision of peace movie. We would like to collect movies from classrooms around the globe of their MESSAGE OF PEACE. The movies might include poetry, song, dance, or etc. The overall theme of the movie is "A Message of Peace" that answer what peace means to them. The requirement for the video:</span><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><u>Length</u> "21 seconds or less"</span><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><u>Title</u>: "A Message of Peace"</span><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><u>Upload</u>: email your interest to me and I will follow up with instructions for uploading (We will be using Dropbox)</span><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><u>Due Date</u>: Sept 16, 2011</span><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><u>Language</u>: In your own language</span><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><u>Goal</u>: 21 classroom representing all six continents</span><br /><br /></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">My students will mash all the videos together to create a international message of peace that will premier on Sept 21, 2011."</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Garrett Ferguson is a teacher that I have worked with before on projects - he always does great things with his class.  They had a great response from classes around the world. Two classes from local Fish Hoek schools responded to the blog postand subitted videos - The Rock Academy and Fish Hoek Primary. The Grade 4 Lafayette class created a final verson incorporating everyone's video which I have embedded below. It is so exciting when classes link with other classes around the world. The spin-off of this is that the Rock Academy and Grade 4 Lafyette are going to have a Skype session together soon!</span><br /><br />Well done to everyone involved in the video.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="266" id="BLOGGER-video-c5a3955dd46b162b-1985" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw2SsSRwv_BWBgOLG1N7iJx6SfyRW7Cs1tjpXLoJ0P-xbGXhsWhKep5Z1CcZjyf33mcfW9k4wJLw3GziH3dgQq1rTAfVoUeFUSLmjqbSJA-WUXWIUq7d6ZWGMEaVN579a4iV0U" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Collaboration videos International Peace Day video - classes around the world working together

Submitted by Fiona BealOn Tuesday 16 August I wrote a blog post about a Grade 4 class in the USA wanting to create a peace video for International Peace Day on 21st September (http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/would-you-like-to-get-involved-in…

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3rd Weigh In Results

Just a quick note to give results on Joel and I's weigh in on Friday:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.loosemyobesity.com/index_files/page13-1008-full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.loosemyobesity.com/index_files/page13-1008-full.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Joel (6'): 228.6</b><br /><b> Hilary (5'8"): 251.8</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">This means that I have now officially lost 12 pounds and Joel has lost<b> </b>4 pounds.  Since Joel has decided to join me, we have both achieved steady losses :).  I'm so happy for us! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend and Happy Halloween!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqEctyBhGPNF-LF0cAVe0QnG034IRxujpWlcTTP1eP0WWY-5v-doxcDJDnKIEQEh8luduCeAEWm3Wdya9LueBW67McMemYuKPypOzJaxiAsxtyjaHKQQnAVAtF2wm8dNEaoNL_wcM0_RlH/s1600/happy+halloween+1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqEctyBhGPNF-LF0cAVe0QnG034IRxujpWlcTTP1eP0WWY-5v-doxcDJDnKIEQEh8luduCeAEWm3Wdya9LueBW67McMemYuKPypOzJaxiAsxtyjaHKQQnAVAtF2wm8dNEaoNL_wcM0_RlH/s320/happy+halloween+1.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

HJ Competition 3rd Weigh In Results

Just a quick note to give results on Joel and I's weigh in on Friday: Joel (6'): 228.6 Hilary (5'8"): 251.8 This means that I have now officially lost 12 pounds and Joel has lost 4 pounds.  Since Joel has decided to join me, we have both achieved ste…

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Incorporate Screencasting into your lesson plans

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Introduction – Jing and Screenr</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">A few months ago I decided to use screencasting more in lessons. The first programme I tried was Jing. I actually liked it so much that I took out the pro membership which was very cheap but gave more benefits. Then I discovered Screenr which seems to have all the benefits of Jing pro as well, although it is free.  </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wanted my class to do two things:<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">*Learn how to create a V</span><span style="color: black; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">oki</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"> (a little avatar that can speak) .<br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">*Get their Vokis to complain about an issue in society as a writing and speaking task.</span> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>How to make a Voki</strong></span> </span><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this part of the lesson I explained how to make the Voki using </span><a href="http://www.voki.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.voki.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The students really enjoyed this lesson. I also made a screencast using Jing on 'How to make a Voki so that the less confident students could practise and finish at home.</span> </span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"></span> <br /><div align="left"><object data="http://content.screencast.com/users/fionabeal/folders/Jing/media/089a8054-5950-4c25-b88b-d716f696360c/jingh264player.swf" height="267" id="scPlayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420"> <param name="movie" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/fionabeal/folders/Jing/media/089a8054-5950-4c25-b88b-d716f696360c/jingh264player.swf"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="flashVars" value="thumb=http://content.screencast.com/users/fionabeal/folders/Jing/media/089a8054-5950-4c25-b88b-d716f696360c/FirstFrame.jpg&containerwidth=1024&containerheight=768&content=http://content.screencast.com/users/fionabeal/folders/Jing/media/089a8054-5950-4c25-b88b-d716f696360c/How%20to%20make%20a%20voki.mp4&blurover=false"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="scale" value="showall"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="base" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/fionabeal/folders/Jing/media/089a8054-5950-4c25-b88b-d716f696360c/"><iframe type="text/html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="overflow:hidden;" src="http://www.screencast.com/users/fionabeal/folders/Jing/media/089a8054-5950-4c25-b88b-d716f696360c/embed" height="420" width="267"></iframe> </object></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to use Jing</span> </strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><br /></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I discovered an amazing site for learning how to use Jing.  Here is an image of it plus the hyperlink.</span> </span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKNPyZgF7GCAAR0ea-UqJQnnV4yt_1O1svyOcqMMlHqIubsZCZh3tmGEffKEFEfr9rANJeFGvzeWQ7R18hKwka7uI7zFGVvc0uyGEoMLBA3PUhqDYZcXKWltsP-gTcJ3wnNopELF08WM/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjgmQTibXBEZCxP7SdI62C1sl3K-jSf8VRKJDH6s6CwEA9JR02uzDw9ci2hrvew4ngcqgMH26OVfo9gXqLi7tTpucNonGY4s-BMvivbzu1cvbOMfo1FGIQompKk4tmiV0H_0omPK8VVo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="433" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/jingInReality/index.html">http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/jingInReality/index.html</a><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: calibri; language: en-za; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give a talk on an issue</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">*I wanted the class to use their Vokis to express an opinion about an issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">*I captured an example for them to use using Screenr.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Tas</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>k</strong></span></span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today you will make a Voki expressing some strong opinions. Use </span><a href="http://www.voki.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.voki.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to do this. <br /><br />1. Think of something that really irritates you, that you think something should be done about. <br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Here are some sentence starters you could use: <br /><br />*What really gets on my nerves is … the reason for this is <br />*What drives me up the wall is … because <br />*What I can’t stand is … . I think <br />*What really annoys me is … You see </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. I got this idea and took a Voki screencast  from Ian James's fantastic blog that I follow (</span><a href="http://tefltecher.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/voki-grumps/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://tefltecher.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/voki-grumps/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) </span><br /><br />  <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0" height="396" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.screenr.com/public/1.7/flash/screenr.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="i=353353&h=t&svr=http://www.screenr.com/&vEmbed=<iframe src="http://www.screenr.com/embed/M94s" width="650" height="396" frameborder="0"></iframe>" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed wmode="opaque" AllowScriptAccess="always" src="http://cdn.screenr.com/public/1.7/flash/screenr.swf" flashvars="i=353353&h=t&svr=http://www.screenr.com/&vEmbed=<iframe src="http://www.screenr.com/embed/M94s" width="650" height="396" frameborder="0"></iframe>" allowFullScreen="true" width="420" height="396" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A blogpost about using Screenr</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have written a blog post about how to use Screenr:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/screencasting-with-screenr-is-so-easy.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/screencasting-with-screenr-is-so-easy.html</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OxgfRS0HlFsDbZiRFr6ZzALMVMRIwWoaVxIgwQx3J8Lm7vkF2cQSHHDAQAgKHmmALp9Y7zYZH8itzmDUpYWW5YRWHUlzCIMVq1Ev-XfYcbquE9HOXuKNLua88DElynEs7ctYJ9XRlZ8/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWvSNCu0YEYcyxvqOJxruJQDrHd97f1AB4sHM7zVY65EUnKEA4AOT0TD10EM4nQ56AY9_LHTf46OSRDZN9fWOxXSuDUjvXF5giwWUQwjAC3PmD14NSfvvfiTxFYLx_1W2m3QUZZ2zals/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="443" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Provide access to your Screencasts to the students</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I did is I created a blog especially for Screencasting so that the students could just go to the link and open up the screencasts.  </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">However both Jing and Screenr store your screencasts so you can keep them there with links. Alternatively you can download them to your computer as MP4 files.</span> </span><br /><br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0" height="396" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.screenr.com/public/1.7/flash/screenr.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="i=353401&h=t&svr=http://www.screenr.com/&vEmbed=<iframe src="http://www.screenr.com/embed/sV4s" width="650" height="396" frameborder="0"></iframe>" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed wmode="opaque" AllowScriptAccess="always" src="http://cdn.screenr.com/public/1.7/flash/screenr.swf" flashvars="i=353401&h=t&svr=http://www.screenr.com/&vEmbed=<iframe src="http://www.screenr.com/embed/sV4s" width="650" height="396" frameborder="0"></iframe>" allowFullScreen="true" width="420" height="396" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I provided this lesson on a PowerPoint at a TeachMeet but the screencasts wouldn’t open for some reason.  I hope that doesn’t happen here!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Further ideas</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think that in the iintegration of your curriculum with technology this would be a great way to help the students that might falter a bit and want to practise at home. If you have a large class the students could go over the instructions using your short screencasts (screencasts should always be short and to the point - no longer than three minutes, for example.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why not give screencasting a try?</span></div>

Jing Microsoft tools Screencasting Screenr Voki Web tools Incorporate Screencasting into your lesson plans

Introduction – Jing and ScreenrA few months ago I decided to use screencasting more in lessons. The first programme I tried was Jing. I actually liked it so much that I took out the pro membership which was very cheap but gave more benefits. Then I d…

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