Getting started with Screencasting

An open door is opportunity.
An open door is opportunity.
I’m becoming an advocate for the use of screencasting at TRU. I think the technology is underutilized in our courses on campus and in the Open Learning department, of which I’m an instructional designer. So, this page is going to be dedicated to the teaching and learning effectiveness of screencasting. I’ll be researching scholarly information as well as practical information from the classroom.

On the scholarly front, Sorden 2005, provides a nice synopsis of how cognitive learning theory support the use of multimedia. Check this out A Cognitive Approach to Instructional Design for Multimedia Learning

On the practical front, this education based marketing brochure from a company provides some good information on the state of video amongest younger people today. Read The Netflix Generation eBook

You can also look for a screencasting session to be provided at the Teaching Practices Colloquium on February 16. I’ve enlisted the support of a number of faculty who been using screencasts in their courses to discuss how this technology has sparked with their students. It’s going to be an informative and hopefully inspiring session, that will fire up others at TRU to give screencasting a try!

If you have anything that you’d like to share about your experience, you’re more than welcome to share it here too.

 

One thought on “Getting started with Screencasting”

  1. It is suxh an important part about teaching. Here is a brief tutorial I made for a class I taught (have othervexamples with sock puppets as well)The Art of Screencasting: http://youtu.be/lSROtnKE3SE

    I guess my point is while instructional design, especially Mayer’s work lays out a clear structure we can still play with content.

    Just remember, at least IMO, a recorded slide deck without context is awful. 6 seven minute videos are better than one 42 minute video.

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