Screencasting Session - Odyssey Conference 2014 - Langley, BC, Canada

1. Explain
Everything!
Practical
Uses
&
How-Tos
For
Screencasting
on
Your iPad
Odyssey 2014 - School District
#35
February 21, 2014
Victoria

2. About Me &
Contact
•
Grade 3/4 & Side-by-Side Technology Teacher
•
Digital Literacy Coach - West Langley Elementary
•
UBC Master of Educational Technology Grad Student
•
EdTech Mentorship Network Lead Mentor
Twitter: @MsVictoriaOlson
Google+: plus.google.com/
+VictoriaOlson
Email: volson@sd35.bc.ca
Blog: techteacheronamission.com

3. Housekeeping
Tweet to #odyssey14 or #think35
Fill out this form to get today’s slides emailed to
you: goo.gl/GmD3TF (Case sensitive!)
Link to today’s presentation:
(Also case sensitive!)

5. Outline of today’s
Be prepared to
session
participate! & tech play
Downloading apps
time
Sharing discoveries with the
group
Student examples of
screencasting for visible
learning
Exploring pre-made lesson files
How do you share lessons from
the cloud?
Create your own lesson file for
your students

6. What You Need For
This or iPad Mini
An iPad Session
Download a recent
copy of Explain
Everything ($2.99)
from the App Store
Other apps you can
download to play
with:
Educreatio
ns
Draw & Tell
($1.99)

7. Tech Play Time 20 demo with Explain Everything
min.
Quick
Exploration of the screencasting apps of your
choice
Explain Everything will be our “home-base” app,
from which I will be doing all demonstrations
later in the session, but I encourage you to try
the others, too!

8. Sharing
Discoveries
Demonstrate what
you’ve learned!

9. Student Examples
Screencasting can be used to capture
explanations or processes

10. Screencasting can also be used as a
presentation tool due to the ability to record,
listen, and re-record

11. And helping students to self-assess their own
thinking and learning… and it’s a great assessment
tool for us, too!

12. Downloading
Files Online
On your web browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.), go
to explainingunderstanding.com
Demonstration of how to download and open a
file in Explain Everything
Explore the site for some lesson examples that
might be relevant to your area. If none of them
are, could you adapt some of the ideas to your
own content?

13. Linking to Cloud-Based
Technology
What is the
cloud?
Storing files
online
Examples
include
Dropbox &
Google
Drive
How to link
Explain
Everything to
these third-party
apps

14. Te
xt
Creation Station
Create your own lesson with interactive
student features in Explain Everything!

15. Thank you for your
participation!
Don’t forget to fill out this form to get
today’s slides emailed to you:
goo.gl/GmD3TF
Twitter: @MsVictoriaOlson
Google+: plus.google.com/
+VictoriaOlson
Email: volson@sd35.bc.ca
Blog: techteacheronamission.com