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Eric Marcos w/ student Tablet PC per classroom for student screencast. Don’t need to have one but it’s great.

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Kids Teaching Kids ( with Student-Created Screencasts) Lincoln Middle School, Santa Monica, CA (6th grad in public school) Kelly’s online alias is “Jerry” (she’s now in 7th)

Screencast is a generic term; it the capture of the screen of the computer. Sometimes says ‘mathcast.’

3 major things leading to student collaboration- websites, tablet pc, math videos…. He has an after-chaool program to create them ASSETs!

If you don’t have a tablet, he’ll show us how to do with a wacom tablet (which we have in art; don’t know if their being used. Sketchup- physics animator…..good idea, showing the action of a trebuchet.

Mike, tablet and camtasia Can do mike, computer, jing to do it for free. Drawing with a mouse can be hard though.

Smartboard and promethean have recording options. Tux paint is a free program- he uses it as his chakboard. Uses windows journal.

What do we have in adobe that is comparable to camtasia? Anything? Need to get CS4 for Mac.

Things to keep in mind, philosophies…. Let them touch the computer. Kids teach each other so quickly. “This all evolved. Started on a Moodle. One day paul had a problem with matha d emailed the teach who picked up the message and made a quick videa dn emailed her the fil. Within a half and hou, paul had watched it and sent back a message, thankyou mr. marcos I totally get it. Can you do another one. Then all the kids wanted one. Bob one day asked to make a video. Hunh, never thought of that rounding a decimal, part 2 was one of the first ones,. It’s unscripted. “

“If it’s 5 or above, give it a shove.”

Beginning, middle, end. Introduce yourself, use fake name, explain what you’re going to do. Do ti and close out. Probablility Dividing fractions, complex rational expressions, metic conversions, GEMDAS, nouns and adjectives (sample videos)

There are mathtrain podcasts Camtasia has closed captioning….ELL!!!

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One teacher started using the videos for in-class tutorials; as the kid explains it, you can see whether or not they understand the process. Authentic assessment and student-led discussions. Even though they may not use all the terminology, you can see whether or not they can understand it.

Conjgating an –er verb.

“Penelope” was tutored by EM. She was in 8th grade and didn’t like math. He would go to her house at 4:30 for 1:1 tutoring. The tablet made it kind of neat. She was a ‘D’ student. He suggested that she create a video for complex rational expressions…this all of a sudden changed the math problem into an art project. This helped her own in, buy in to it. The teacher was blown away once she saw it; saw the student with new eyes. This gave her confidence. Teacher showed it in class and the kids were, in effect, being taught by a d student. This would never have happened if she had been asked to come to the board to do the problem.

Creating the videos- authentic assessment, kids teaching kids, active role in won learning, student created, unscripted, and FUN!!!

Camtasia helps suck the background noise out. For whatever reason, boys don’t tend to take girls’ names.

Sharing the math videos, you gain a global audience. Mathtrain.tv Mathtrain.com is for class Shared in screencast Shared on iTunes pdcast On Google video teacher tue and youtube Can be accessed on ipod and iPhone.

Jerry will now take us from a video start to finish:

Opens windows journal which is a paint program and also camtasia studio which is the screen recording softwar. She prsesses record the screen. Lides to put the title on first. You want to keep some white space so that it’s not squished. It makes it seem better. I like to put my problem on first. When making the ivdeo we like to have the ration 640 x 480 and oyou can lock it. Twit that set up, ready to record. Without even touching anything, it will replay. You can press edit, name the file and get to work.

A ‘callout’ is an edition that helps draw the eye where you want it to be. You can move the callout around. The triangle shape shows you where the callout will fade out. Lots of options for the output file in camtasia.

The yellow highlighter was a setting that was chosen beforehand. Jerry says that camtasia is pretty intuitive. Doesn’t grade it; kids do it because they want to. He even has kids come by that he has never taught and they’re creating videos.

PHPmotion is a YouTube clone where he hosts his show. Can come up with out own name.

On twitter at mathtrain

Snagit was how he could show torn-edge images.

This is what I am presenting to staff this Thursday.