Final Reflection

FINAL THOUGHTS

As you learned in the previous sections, regardless of what tools you choose to use and your educational technology experience, screencasts can be created with relative ease over time. Yet before you consider making your first screencast, pause and ask yourself what you hope it will do for your students learning. If you are hoping to maximize your precious face-to-face time with students for additional hands-on inquiry activities, if you want to have additional time to conference with your students to support their individual needs, or if you want to create a flexible learning environment like in the previous sections videos where students are taking ownership of their learning and doing what they need to succeed, then screencasts just may be what you're looking for! Whatever the case, do it with purpose and screencasting will no doubt become one of the most valuable tools in your educator tool kit.