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Screencasting in the Classroom with TechSmith and Edmodo

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Tom’s also a screencasting pro, and he frequently puts video content on his YouTube channel or on Screencast.com. This frees up class time for more activities and less lecture. For starters, my students write so much more than they did prior to when we were strictly writing on paper. I love how it’s a “safe” environment.

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How Educators Can Avoid Panic and Find Success Teaching Online with Janet Lee

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Lecturing via virtual conferencing software gets boring fast, so consider how you can chunk up your content to keep it interesting. Janet suggests adding short videos, either from YouTube or ones you’ve created. When we lecture constantly, we lose students’ interest and attention. It’s like a one-way transmission.

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Ten Ways to Use Video in the Classroom

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It’s back-to-school season for most educators and this year, the TechSmith Education team is writing a series of blog posts with some ideas for the classroom. Watch it on YouTube. With lecture out of the way, you are freed up to work on the context and application of lessons with students. Flip a Lesson.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

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There are two ways to acquire screencast videos to use with a lesson: Find a screencast video that is already available from YouTube, Kahn Academy , neoK12 , or other sources. This blog focuses on a framework to create an educational screencast using Camtasia Studio® and PowerPoint as the core of the screencast design. Screen name].

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Successful Online Learning: How One Professor Uses Camtasia for Her Online Classes

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One professor who has excelled at creating digital content for her students is Danielle DeVoss, Professor of Professional Writing and the Director of Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. Posting lecture notes or ‘talking head’ videos just doesn’t do it. Watch it here on YouTube. More than a Webcam.

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ISTE 2013 Presenter Profile: Graham Johnson

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The TechSmith Education team will be heading down to San Antonio this year for the Annual Conference and Exposition, and we’re eager to hang out with all of our presenter pals at our booth. This past spring Graham recently finished writing his Master’s thesis titled ‘ Student Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom.’

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Learning by Creating: Turning Bloom’s on Its Head

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Shelley Wright’s blog, “ Flip This: Bloom’s Taxonomy Should Start with Creating “, proposes an idea that leverages what we know about the way humans learn: we generally start not with remembering a set of facts, formulas or knowledge sets; we start with a productive goal in mind. You’ve seen these online. They disagreed.

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