I had a lot of fun with this one, despite the tone of my voice in the video below. I expect screencasting will be extremely useful as a teacher later on, as it will allow me to record a version of my classes for students who can’t make it to class that day. I hope to one day have a prerecorded version of my lectures for any class I’m teaching just in case students will benefit from hearing my words twice, of course thats a long way off.
For my screencast, I decided to open up MS Paint and doodle a bit. I chose this because these little drawing are super important for teaching chemistry, and I imagine I’ll be recording myself drawing like that a lot in the future. However, I will be wanting to draw on a tablet, and not with a mouse.
On the video editing front, I wasn’t to enthralled by what Screencastify had to offer. It felt clunky and I didn’t like how it kept trying to make me buy the full version. Also only having the ability to store 10 videos isn’t the end of the world as I can download them to my computer, but it is certainly a nuisance. Screencastify also doesn’t work for iPads which I imagine will be my main use for the technology, so I will have to look at other software.