Video demonstrations and Mathcasts
I wanted to try to make my own video and learn how to put it onto my blog.
I created the video with my webcam on my laptop. Then I editted it using Acer Arcade Deluxe to create an mpg3 file (if you use MovieMaker you would have made a .wmv file (Windows Media Video)).
Then I had to find somewhere to store the video and was recommended Blip TV by Matthew Kearney. You sign up and then bliptv will store your videos for you, just upload them (free).
Then I copied the embedded code and pasted it here…
The content is not to do with technology – I made a Maths Resource with cardboard and a set-square, a ruler and string – but it was an interesting process to create a video to be used for demonstration (”instructionist” use of technology to be used to inspire construction) and learn how to share it.
So this is not a mathcast (see Madhu’s blog post and my prior post) as it does not involve an interactive whiteboard but does it classify as a Vodcast? It is “video on demand”.
When I was on Prac, my school gave lessons via SmartBoard and emailed marked up copies of the lesson to any students who were away. They were not mathcasts as they were not videos of the interactive lesson but were SmartBoard files that the student could read. Mathcasts sound like a useful tool if there is no teacher available.
