Screencast one - Setting-up a Wix e-portfolio through eMIT
Above is the link to the first screencast
that was developed to support students to set-up and initially use their individual
ePortfolios. The focus of this screencast is around providing students with
context specific, flexible, continuously available, easily accessible support
system personalised to their specific needs.
To this end the screencast begins with
students being invited to access their own course eMIT (blackboard) site. They
are then directed to a specific tab and then a specific folder, that will take
then to the ‘Wix web builder’ link that has been imbedded into their course
tools. It was decided to imbed the link into eMIT, as some students found it
difficult to find the ‘Wix web builder’ link on the internet. It is hoped that
this context specific approach will help to alleviate the initial frustration
and stress expressed by some students.
The students are then shown how to access
templates that are relevant to the focus of the course and encouraged to ‘have
a play’. According to Oehrli, Piacentine, Peters & Nanamaker (2011) to be
effective screencasts need to be short, and they argue that when considering
illustrating basic concepts two short videos back to back can be more effective
than one long video. With this in mind I decided to finish this first
screencast at the ‘have a play’ stage, so that students could have time to get
their mind around what the site looks like and how it works.
Student access to the screencast link was provided
through the course eMIT site. As it is envisaged that the screencasts will be
used by students to support/extend the learning in the classroom, the course lecturer
loaded the link after she had shown the students the ‘how to steps and
discussion’ in class. Once students have access to the link they are able to
watch it many times, and they are able to stop and start the screencast when
needed, thus making it flexible, continuously available and easily accessible.
Don’t forget that I value your feedback and
recommendations for improvement:
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What do you feel works well in this screencast?
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What did you find challenging in this screencast?
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What suggestions to you have for improvement/extension
of this screencast?
Reference:
Oehrli, J; Piacentine, J; Peters, A and
Nanamaker, B. (2011). Do Screencasts
Really Work? Assessing Student Learning
through Instructional Screencasts. Retrieved July 26th 2013 from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/national/2011/papers/do_screencasts_work.pdf
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