Screencorder in the Classroom

Screencorder is an amazing software! I feel this makes the lives of professors so much easier. With screencorder, professors can make click by click tutorials, which can be revisited by the student! These are reusable learning objects. These tutorials eliminate students from forgetting a step and cuts back on questions because they can go back and rewatch the tutorials.

Of course questions are great by students but it does not hurt to consolodate them.

Flickr in the Classroom

I can see Flickr being used in the classroom as a critique forum. Students could post all there art work for class, then each student can visit and revisit the work and critique it.

Another use of Flickr in the classroom is posting diagrams and detailed images. Especially for classes in the medical area. Post images of the skeleton with labels of each bone. Images help students indentify things, which is an advantage.

YouTube Videos

Roosevelt And U.S. History: 1930-1945 (clip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQRGosyd1M

This is just a short clip that combine video with narration to describe the history of 15 years in the United States. Using You Tube seems to be a great way to pack a lot of history in a short amount of time. Its like cliff notes for a book, but in the form of video.

1865-Present

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZvl4cMb-8&NR=1

This second video above is much longer but carries a lot of information, almost a hundred and fifty years. It also uses multiple narrators, which may help hold the interest of viewer.

The Electoral College

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjWPo70XZY

I really enjoy this video. I wish i would have had a similar video shown to me when i was younger. I always had trouble wrapping my mind around how our electorial system worked. This video does a great job of explaining the electoral college.