It's been 8 weeks since you magical folk have diligently and playfully taken on the task of learning 21st century digital literacy skills employed by the non-magical folk to create "digital magic". This week you'll add to your digital portfolio a delightful video introduction of your Nissaba course with a short mini-lesson screencast. Next week we'll be pulling it all together as we start our final project- preparing for the Nissaba School of Sorcery Open House.
Digital Literacy Skills: creativity, content creation, consuming digital resources, effective communication, digital citizenship
Digital Resources and Tools:
Loom Tutorial: How to create screen recordings - The easy way!
Before class begins:
Sign-up for free Lumen5 account and watch tutorial.
Sign-up for a free Loom account and watch tutorial.
Visit Freesound.org and the Youtube Audio library.
Assignments:
Use Lumen 5 to create a 1-2 min video about your Nissaba course.
Add an audio track to a video created by you or a classmate.
Create a screencast mini-lesson with Loom.
Upload the screencast to your Google Drive.
Create a Flipgrid video to introduce your Nissaba course. (Click here).
Add links to your Lumen5 video and mini-lesson screencast.
Comment on at least 2 blog post reflections by other students.
Challenge Assignments: Choose at least one.
Watch How to Screen record with Free software tutorial.
Survey other screen video capture apps such as ActivePresenter7, Screen cast-o-matic and other examples.
Locate additional free audio files you can download and play.
Create your own Flipgrid topic and invite others to post.
Write a reflection in your blog.
How would you use these tools in your real classroom?
Narrate your process for creating each of your digital media projects. How would you improve upon them next time?
Attach a link to your flipgrid video.
Attach a link to your mini-lesson screencast.
What did you learn? What do you still need help with?
Comment on at least 2 blog post reflections by other students.
Scroll down and click on the green plus symbol to create your Flipgrid video. See assignments for more details.
Before class meets familiarize yourself with the resources by watching the tutorials and playing on your own.
On screen video capture. How To Screen record with the free software Loom