Well this has been a process. 

This week I made a screencast, highlighting the many attributes of the epic book website. Me and my partner, Emily, were able to make our screencast, but we struggled to edit our video. We tried to use iMovie to do our editing but ran into some technical difficulties. Once downloaded we were unable to get the video in the editor due to format issues. 

Here’s our video… 

The struggles we face are solvable with some dedication and time. It could be very helpful in a future classroom of mine with some extra practice. Screencasts are a great way to teach your students how to use resources online, this could be used at an older grade to teach students how to find scholarly articles and peer-reviewed sources. Screencasts would also be a very helpful tool for students to be to access at home. If I pre-record the lessons, students would be able to review the lessons online at home. This way students who need to see the lesson done again can see it without the whole class reviewing it. Those resources could come in handy again when reviewing topics from the earlier grade, to prep for future lessons.