My first screencast

I feel like a this is very Fisher Price but whatever. I am hoping this file loads and you can witness my first screencast. It took me about 2 periods with the sun beating down on the back of my head but I did it! YAY! ME!

The software I used is Camtasia Studio. You can use Jing Project, which is free open source software. They are both offered by Tech Smith. I find Camtasia pretty easy to use. For this screencast, I recorded both audio and video at the same time but you are able to record them separately if you wanted to. The software is fairly easy to use and also comes with easy to follow tutorials. It is weird something happened with Pan/Scan so it is panning at bizarre moments but this is only with the AVI version. My other version is much nicer.

My first screencast

I feel like a this is very Fisher Price but whatever. I am hoping this file loads and you can witness my first screencast. It took me about 2 periods with the sun beating down on the back of my head but I did it! YAY! ME!

The software I used is Camtasia Studio. You can use Jing Project, which is free open source software. They are both offered by Tech Smith. I find Camtasia pretty easy to use. For this screencast, I recorded both audio and video at the same time but you are able to record them separately if you wanted to. The software is fairly easy to use and also comes with easy to follow tutorials.

Hello! Moodle!

We get to use Moodle to enhance some of classes. I am very very excited about this. I used Moodle in a class taught by Dennis O'Connor for UW-Stout called "E-learning for Educators" last year.

I have started setting up my class page and am actually using some of the techniques I learned about in Dennis' class, like setting up an "icebreaker" activity so that students can familiarize themselves with the how the page works. Since this is the first year, I am going to use the multitasker game from My Pop Studio.com. I am a little worried that it is geared towards girls but I think the boys will have fun with it.

I have been reading a lot about how students spend a fair amount of time online and I think this will be another way for us to engage them in discussion. I do not think it will add too much to their schedule because they will be online anyway. I am interested in using the chat feature one day just to see how it works and also to see how students react to it.