Flipping Feedback: Screencasting feedback on student essays — from facultyfocus.com by Ron Martinez
Excerpt (emphasis):
But, I thought, what if students could actually watch and hear me in a video as I go over their papers? If possible (which it is), that would approximate the kind of feedback experience I aimed to offer students without constraining it to a particular time or location.
Screencasting (recording and narrating actions performed by the instructor on a computer screen) did that and much more for me and my students. Below I describe the process and the resulting benefits.
From DSC:
Though Ron mentioned that he selected Screencast-O-Matic on his PC (and he also mentioned Quicktime), I wanted to offer up a couple of other possibilities:
- Professors using Blackboard Collaborate can be heard while marking up a document in Word, Google Docs, or in other applications by making recordings while using the Application Sharing feature. See Chapter 10 in this document for example, for the “original experience” (Bb Collaborate Version 12.6) or the Application Sharing portion of this page (for the new “Ultra Experience”).
- Screenflow — where you can be seen, heard, as well as share and record your screen while you are mocking up/editing the document in whatever Mac OS-based application you want to use
- Adobe Captivate
- Camtasia Studio
- (On the iPad) Explain Everything
- (On the iPad) PDF Expert
- Jing
- Though not exactly a preferred way (at least in my mind), you can insert an MP3-based audio file within Microsoft Word 2013
- …as well as many other tools out there that can capture your screen