Using Screencast-O-Matic to Create Tutorial Videos

Below is my FETC 2013 presentation, "Using Screencast-O-Matic to Create Tutorial Videos:"


Click HERE for the Google Form survey.

Authentic Student-Created Vocabulary Assessments

Welcome to Authentic Student-Created Vocabulary Assessments, a presentation at the Nov. 2 NEATE conference in Mansfield, MA.

Agenda:

Introduction and orientation

Vocabulary Quiz Stories


Vocabulary Quiz Sentences

Vocabulary  Poster Review Project
    a. Resources

Vocabulary Videos
     a. Origin - Membean
     b. VocabVideos on YouTube
     c. Instructions
     d. Examples: Infamous, Discreet,
Haughty

Vocabulary Flashcards HW

Previous Vocabulary HW

Reproducables

Research

Questions, Ideas, Existing Practices, Challenges, Successes?

Thank you!

Digital Tools in the 21st Century English Classroom - Myrtle Beach

Agenda:

1) Introduction and welcome (5 minutes)

2) Complete Google Form Survey and share results (5 minutes) 


CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY


3) Brief introductions to social media and tech tools (10 minutes)
   a. Intro on Google Docs
   b. Blogging and networking
   c. Blogging with students
   d. Twitter as professional development
   e. Twitter for posting homework
   f. Dropbox 101

   g. Photo Story 3 - Vocabulary Video examples 
   h. Screencast-O-Matic teacher-created tutorial videos

4) In pairs or small groups, explore the links, resources, and tool(s) of your choice (30 minutes)


5) Post a blog comment to this page explaining one thing you learned or discovered during this activity. Were you able to generate any insights in terms of how you could apply one or more of these tools to your classroom? Did you find a website, blog, or different technology tool that we should know about? The content of your comments is up to you. (5 minutes)


6) Final questions, thoughts, or epiphanies (5 minutes)


Thanks for attending! I hope this was meaningful and beneficial. Feel free to contact me with questions or comments: bgvocab (at) gmail (dot) com.


Below are links relevant to today's workshop:

I. An Argument for the Use of Technology in Schools

II. Using Google Documents in the Classroom
        a. Sharing a document
        b. Google Presentation as an alternative to PowerPoint.
        c. Student Example of Google Presentation Saved as PDF
    Google Docs Tutorial: http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html   
    YouTube Video on using Google Docs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

  

III. Blogging
a. My blog
b. Science teacher's blog
c. Math teacher's blog
d. History teacher's blog
e. English teacher's blog
f.  Middle school teacher's blog
g. Principal's blog
f.  Assistant Principal's blog

IV. Dropbox - Sync your files between computers & create Internet links

V. Twitter

    a. Mr. B-G's Twitter Page
    b. BG Assignments Twitter Page

VI. Feedly for Firefox - Share and keep track of websites & blogs

VII. Ad block plus for Firefox

 

VIII. Microsoft Photo Story
    a. Example Photo Story

    b. Lesson Plan Using Photo Story to Create Vignettes

    c. Mr. B-G’s Vocabulary Video YouTube page

IX. Screencast-O-Matic
     a. My screencast videos

X. Animoto - The End of Slideshows
        a. Example

The Government's Social Spying Programme!

Two BNW/1984 PowerPoints

Click HERE for information on the two books

Click HERE for comparisons between Huxley and Orwell

Walmart Orwellian Public Service Announcement

BNW/1984 Article Links

Group I

Smile, you're on camera!

Facebook leads to diminished communication

Android Apps Can Secretly Copy Your Photos

Group II

Facebook him! A strange new era of surveillance is here

My own private memory hole - the right to be forgotten


Group III  

Obama to sign detention act into law

Big Brother is watching you at Walmart



Group IV


Pill popping - the case for cognitive enhancement

The meaning of utopia

 Group V

The Zuckerberg revolution

Wikileaks, Facebook, and Brave New World

 Group VI

If Not Orwell, Then Huxley: The Battle for Control of the Internet

Orwell, GPS, and the Supreme Court

Group VII

MSNBC's Martin Bashir Compares Rick Santorum to An Orwell Totalitarian

Police (Big Brother) Videotape Citizens

Group VIII

Google goggles, due this year, turn seeing into searching

 

Google Glasses Are a Prescription for Disaster


The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever

Students tracked with ID chips

School installs facial recognition cameras

Sample 1984/Brave New World Dystopic Essays

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Adding your vocabulary video to the class YouTube site

Blogger, Weebly, and Drupal Gardens

Welcome!

Introductions - Please tell us who are, why you signed up for this workshop, and what you hope to learn today
 
Gmail sign up - If you have a personal Gmail account, I recommend using that to create your Blogger blog.

Blogging sites to check out
a. My blog
b. Science teacher's blog
c. Math teacher's blog
d. History teacher's blog
e. English teacher's blog
f.  Middle school teacher's blog
g. Principal's blog
f.  Assistant Principal's blog

Using Photo Story 3

Welcome!

Introductions - Please tell us who are, why you signed up for this workshop, and what you hope to learn today
 

Microsoft Photo Story
  

Example Photo Story

  

Lesson Plan Using Photo Story to Create Vignettes

 

Mr. B-G’s Vocabulary Video YouTube page

Using Twitter and Dropbox

Welcome!

Introductions - Please tell us who are, why you signed up for this workshop, and what you hope to learn today

Dropbox sign up - Please send me an e-mail to bgvocab@gmail.com if you did not receive an invitation to join Dropbox. I will send you one.

Dropbox installation and basic use

Creating Internet links with Dropbox

Twitter account sign ups - multiple accounts?

Twitter for homework

Twitter for professional development

Time to explore, play, and figure out ways to use this technology

Hang tight... these links will eventually work again

As any of you know who have tried to download the materials located in the right column of this blog, it's been a while since these links worked. For reasons unbeknownst to me, my file hosting site, Ripway.com, keeps saying I've exceed my daily bandwidth, even on days when this page has received very few visits.

I have since switched to Dropbox as a means to share my files on the Internet, but it will be a little while until all of the links are functioning again.

Thanks for your patience.