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A Screencast is much like a screenshot, but a screenshot is a still image of a screen. Screencasts are step by step video on a screen cast onto the viewer's screen (you). If you watched the instruction videos for the Wiki project, you were watching a screencast. In a screencast the video output of a computer screen is broadcast on another screen and often has audio to compliment it. The audio often comes in the form of verbal instruction from the creator of the screencast or often music is used to compliment the visuals (a montage for example).
There are many tools that help create screencasts, some cost money, but there are many that can be acquired for free as well. The following programs record the actions and audio on a video screen and allow the user to create AVI files and turn the product into a video capable of handling broad band streaming. Some useful tools include: Camestudio Coperinicus, Jing, Screencast-O-Matic, Wink, Adobe Captivate, and AllCapture.
How can screecasts be applied to the history classroom?
One of the most fundamental skills in history is to understand the society in which they live in. Historical inquiry and discussion are fundamental skills that students are said to be lacking in today's world. Screencasting is a tool that is available to help create dialogue in the classroom and to open the whole world to students by showing them live on a screen. Students witness discussions with leading figures of the world, or other students in the world. Though it is not live, it can be a fast medium in which people all over the world share visual dialogue and evidence, further empowered by audio features. Instructors often use screencasting to give instructions to students outside of the classroom, such as in an online class, like ET349. The videos you watched to create our Wiki pages were examples of screencasts. The instructors capture their actual actions and the student/viewer can see step by step how to complete the task.
This is useful if the student is absent, the teacher is away, or for students to further followup on a lecture or assignment. More interestingly an instructor of history can bring the history to the students by capturing a trip they may have been on and creating an interactive assignment for the students to use and they also get to witness history for themselves as they view the teacher giving the instructions, in the historical atmosphere! In the second video, a professor uses screencasting to show other instructors how to grade multiple assessments by using Moodle. One instructor, Chris Martenson, even uses screencasting to capture a lecture for students as a "crash course" in the history of money. It adds a constant visual to the lecture so students do not get distracted and it also keeps the instructor from going off topic in the classroom. This further shows the capacity that screencasting can share not only the curriculum from instructor to students, but also around the world via the internet. Screencasting is a great tool for study and to create more time in the classroom for hands on applications instead of taking up time in lecture. It is also a creative way for students to show what they have learned by creating their own screencasts as an assessment, but one they most likely will enjoy.
Adaptations
Screencasts provide a multitude of options for adaptations. Screencasts can be used for pre-made alternate assignments for any student with a different need. If a student is excelling you may want to excuse them from the current assignment and tell them to view a screencast for their next assignment. For students that struggle with English as a Second Language, you can adapt lectures and assignments to fit their vocabulary and speech needs. If a student is a visual student and struggles with oral instructions, you may have them go view the screencast for step by step instructions on the assignment. If students are struggling with in class review for assessments or just need more instruction outside the class room; YOU the teacher may be with them to help them through screencasts!
The topics, assignments, and uses of screencasts vary in many ways for adaptation and general ed class room needs.
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