This document discusses various tools for creating and sharing digital content, including screencasting, pencasting, screensharing, markup, collaborative documents, and backchannels. It provides examples of how teachers can use these tools to flip instruction, provide feedback to students, have students demonstrate understanding, and encourage collaboration and discussion in the classroom.

1. Ways to show what you know
Tools for casting and sharing

2. Video of your screen—and whatever you do on it…
SCREENCASTING

3. Tools for Screencasting
• Camtasia Studio • Snapz Pro X
• Record and edit • Record screencasts on
screencasts your Mac
• http://www.techsmith.c • http://www.ambrosias
om/camtasia.html w.com/utilities/snapzpr
ox/

4. Tools for Screencasting
• Snagit • Jing
• Easy to use for short • Free for up to 5 minutes
screencasts, with direct of screencasting
upload capability • Share video via
hyperlink rather than
• http://www.techsmith.c upload
om/snagit.html • http://www.techsmith.c
om/jing.html

5. Ipadcasting Apps
Each does something different, for a
different price:
• Explain Everything
• Skitch
• Screenchomp
• Replay note
• ShowMe
• Educreations

6. Pencasting
• Livescribe pen + livescribe software = pencast
• Can be viewed as video on your computer, or
in google docs, google sites, or evernote; also
on your ipad or iphone.
• http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/index.html

7. WAYS TO USE THEM IN YOUR CLASS

8. Using –casting in the classroom
• Flip your instruction
• Give students video feedback on their work
• Have students demonstrate their understanding
by creating screencasts:
– Show they can determine valid resources
– Demonstrate the process of solving an equation
– Create a video of the steps in the scientific process
– Video graphic organizers, venn
diagrams, timelines, maps, etc.

9. Screensharing
• These apps allow you to see what others are
doing. Or, show others what you are doing:
– Join.me
– Screenleap.com
– Yuuguu.com

10. SCREENSHARING IN YOUR
CLASSROOM…

11. Screensharing in the classroom:
• Watch students while they write, giving
feedback in real time
• Have students share your screen while you
model writing, a thinking process, or research

12. MARKUP TOOLS

13. Web Annotation Tools
• Markup.io
• http://www.bounceapp.com/
• http://a.nnotate.com/index.html
• Diigo

14. MARKUP TOOLS IN THE
CLASSROOM

15. Annotate websites or documents to
demonstrate
• Reliable sites for research
• Writing process
• Design principles
• Media literacy—how websites or images
convey information

16. Collaborative Documents
• Google Docs
• Zoho
• Microsoft Office Live

17. COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTS IN
YOUR CLASSROOM

18. Collaborative documents
• Have the class take notes on a
lecture, video, or reading
• Compile evidence, images, or links for projects

19. Backchannels
• TodaysMeet
• CoveritLive
• Twitter

20. Backchannel in the classroom
• Take notes or ask questions while watching a
video or reading a text
• Make comments or ask questions during a
lecture or speaker
• Collaborate on a process
• Give hints, clues, or prompts to students or
student-to-student