Instructional+Media+Screencast

Instructional Media Screencast Description and Process

This assignment had us complete an instructional media screencast using JING. The screencast had to be done for our virtual classroom on Blackboard. My course is entitled Business and Personal Finance and I decided to start at the beginning with our first unit called Pay. I did the screencast on Chapter 1 Gross Pay Section 1 titled Hourly and Salary Pay. I chose this particular chapter and section because I felt it was an easier section to teach and could be learned through the screencast easily. I decided to introduced the lesson and then define the key terms, from there I went over the formula for calculated hourly pay and offered examples and then I reviewed the formula for salary pay and went over some examples.

Effectiveness as an Instructional Media Technology

An instructional media screencast could prove to be very beneficial in education. I think that the screencast is a very effective tool and would be a valuable part of a virtual classroom. I think the students would find it easy to follow and actully enjoy it more than a typical lecture setting. Often times in the classroom students don't comprehend at the same level and some students required more time to fully understand a concept. Having screencasts like the one created for this assignment would allow students to repeat the lecture as many times as possible and would allow them to learn at their own pace. I could definitely see an instructional screencast being used as a supplement to a lecture class or specifically for a virtual classroom.

Reflection  Once again I felt completely overwhelmed with this assignment. I found it very hard to wrap my head around what it was we were supposed to do. I did take the time to go on the class WIKI page and looked at Bart's voicethread on Jing and I found that to be a very useful tool for me. Once I reviewed his voicethread, I then needed to decide the best topic for the screencast. After working with Jing for what seemed to be forever; because it took me like 50 times to get the screencast right; I found that I actually liked using Jing and I think it is very user friendly. I can actually see myself doing instructional screencasts for my classes and use it as a tool for when students are absent and need to catch up with the class. The only draw back that I saw with Jing is that you can only record up to 5 minutes and I feel as though that time allowance should be increased. Some concepts or lessons may take longer to explain or demonstrate. I can understand having the time limit just wish it was a little longer. At the end of the day I feel that the screencast and Jing are great educational tools and I Iook forward to using them in the future.

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