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One of my favorite things to do as kid was to ride on The Flying Horses, an antique carousel in Oak Bluffs. Each time the carousel makes a full rotation the riders reach out and grab a ring from the ring arm. The last ring retrieved is the brass ring. Some riders are focused and can grab muliple rings in a single pass. Some remember to go for it at the last second and snatch up a single ring. Other kids get caught up in the ride and forget to reach. It struck me recently that for many students the journey from high school to undgraduate studies is very similar. Some kids have support while others face barriers. My hope is that this blog will become a compilation of links, tools, experiments, and success stories to help every young person in their quest to catch The Brass Ring that is a post-secondary degree.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Screencasting

I had a lot of fun using Jing (jingproject.com) to collect screen shots from a couple of websites my students frequent.  I took the screen shots and loaded them into a PowerPoint and used Jing again, only this time to do a video capture.  This enabled me to narrate the screencast and then upload it to screencast.com.  Now I have two screencasts to share with students registering for the SAT and ACT online for the first time.  Hopefully I won't have to hang over their shoulders as they register.   If they would rather do this at home or with a friend outside of school hours they still have the opportunity to have some assistance.  I hate when kids run in on the registration deadline (2 minutes before I have to fly out of the building to collect my first grader from the school bus) clearly needing help but I'm not in a position to offer it.  Now I can direct kids to our class blog where they can watch the tutorial and register without a problem.  Let me know what you think of the screencasts.  How are you using this technology?

ACT Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/NDEyNmZhZjMt

SAT Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/YjkzODRlZ 
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