Show Me That Again: Screencasting with Screenflow

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Examples

How-To Demos

Adobe Captivate Demo

Jing Demo

Screenflow Demo

Lectures

Plagiarism Lecture

Mathcasts

Lovett Mathcasts

Mathtrain

Best Practices

Preparation is key if you want your screencast to remain relevant for some time.

Pre-Planning Stage

Write a script. This will help make sure you (and your students) know what the screencast will be about.

Storyboard Your Screencast

Step-by-step helps make the process much more smoothhttp://www.schoolhousevideo.org/Pages/Storyboard.pdf

Storyboard generator:http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/storyboard/

http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/storyboard.pdf

Prepare your web browserEliminate any unnecessary tool bars

Close out all tabs

Find a quiet location. (OK--I realize that this doesn't exactly work with kids in a computer lab, but do your best)

Find a decent microphone or headset/mic combo

Walk through the steps of your screencast at least one time so you'll feel more prepared.

Recording Stage

If you can get it in one take--awesome! If not, don't worry because it does get easier with practice.

Be sure to review your screencast at least once to make sure you got the recording you wanted.

Post-Production Stage

• 1. Save your screencast file

  2. Upload to a service that you can share your screencast with. Many of the sites below offer free and low-cost hosting packages.