For starters, I absolutely loves this activity! Creating video tutorials for students was such a fun thing to do, and learning how to use these resources was awesome. Using these video recording tools and resources has a ton of benefits not only for students, but for teachers and for parents as well.
Students can benefit from these tools in a variety of ways. These include video processing, learning through demonstrations, learning to self study, promotion of collaboration, contextualization, learning through illustrations, and they learn on the job training skills. Teachers benefit from these resources by gaining extra classroom time. If students can review and learn topics prior to classroom time, they come in with a background knowledge. This gives more time for activities and less time spent on instruction. Parents benefit from these resources because they can view these tutorials and help their children complete work at home. Sometimes parents need refreshers on topics too!
Not only can teachers use these resources, students can use them as well. These resources provide a great way to extend lessons. All students can use these resources, however, it would be a great extension project for advanced students. Students could create their own tutorials and post to the class website. These tutorials can be shared to not only students in a particular classroom, but to classrooms around the globe. As we have learned in our text, if we give students purpose for their work, they will be more engaged. These video resources provide perfect opportunities for students to work with a purpose, that purpose being to teach and provide assistance to other students who may be struggling with a particular topic or subject.
When choosing my subject for my video tutorials, I chose math. I always struggled with math and I immediately began thinking about how these resources could have helped me when I was a student. I chose to do my lesson on adding and subtracting on a number line. One of my favorite math teaching tools is Glencoe. With Glencoe you can go online and use different work-mats, manipulatives, etc. to teach and to solve problems. Here is the link to Glencoe if you are interested: http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html
The first video resource I used was Screencast-O-Matic. I love this resource and have used it in the past, so I couldn't wait to use it for this activity. I love how easy it is to use. I also like how you can control which part of your screen is being recorded. Another thing I enjoy about this resource is that you have the ability to cut out any mistakes, pauses, errors, etc. To me, being able to cut and edit is one of the greatest benefits of these tools. Another thing I loved, is that you could easily share directly to Youtube. One thing that was hard for me was listening to my own voice. That is something that I think is difficult for everyone, so once I got through that issue I was able to smoothly and easily create my tutorial with this resource.
The next resource I chose to use was CamStudio. CamStudio was highly customizable. It was very easy to use. With CamStudio you can capture screen as well as still photos. As with Screencast you can easily edit, cut and upload to Youtube. You can also choose what part of the screen you are capturing. These were all some of my favorite features of the tool. One thing I did not like was having to download to use the resource. It took quite awhile for it to download and for me to be able to access the resource. But once able to access the resource, I really enjoyed it.
Here are the links to my video tutorials:
Screencast-O-Matic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IozjJXk38iA&t=2s
CamStudio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcjlBED8-s
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