What fun to turn the table (turn the desk?) and allow your student to ‘teach’ a lesson using intuitive video-capture software.
One great tool to capture screenshots, screencasts and quick video is Snagit, an app and extension in (YES!) Google Chrome. Get it here. This is a free download and allows you to capture images from your desktop, record activity on your desktop, and easily share with the rest of the interested world. And the best part is that videos are saved to your Google Drive!
Some ways to use:
Get students to share their feedback on a story or project. This is great practice as it also them to think about their ‘speech’, map out what they are going to say, and deliver it to an authentic audience such as a class blog.
Use Snagit to capture algebraic (or other) equations as you write them out. This allows student to watch the steps many times in an asynchronous setting.
Get students to teach something to their peers. Assign a chapter or character to study and have students capture a short video of themselves, talking about the material.
Have them record what they’ve learned – students can share videos in class or upload to a class blog or YouTube channel.
Embed their video into their digital project (think Glogster or Padlet – more on that later).
Other really easy, fun capture software is Screenr and Screencast-0-matic. Both are great to record your lecture, up to 15 minutes for Screencast. Let us know if you’ve used video capture software in the past and successes/failures and other feedback or additional resources.
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