CEDO 599 Blog #2

I chose to use Jing to create my video tutorials and I must say it was a pain in the butt. Not because of Jing but because of all the unforseen things that happen when creating a screen capture. During my screen captures I had a phone call, cell went to silent mode as I restarted, I had my dogs barking at people walking by, the house got closed up so the dogs couldn't see anyone, I forgot to click save when done as I was excited to start the next tutorial, I had to remind myself to slow down, and most predominately my mind was moving way too fast for my mouth and fingers and I'd foget a step and have to start over. I did create screen cards for me to follow but I found that I just wasn't smart enough or proficient enough to flow back and forth between my notes, my program, my screen capture, and what I was trying to accomplish so I took the approach of doing a test run with my notes and then going back and completing a screen capture after my review. This process seemed to work best for me and once I got on a role these went pretty easily. That is after I figured out how to avoid all the other pitfalls.

I created a screen capture of my Pro E water bottle tutorial for my Exploratory Technology class, a Pro E Model Rocket tutorial for my Drafting and Design class, and a Solidworks Oven Rack and Loft tutorial for my Principles of Engineering class. I linked each of these tutorials to my Nings for each of these classes and have provided an area where my students can access them from home or school.

In addition to my screen casts, I have also created a tutorial for my students to create their E-Portfolio. I intend to have each of my students create an E-Portfolio that they can use to document their artifacts in my classroom so they can show others their accomplishments within my classroom. We use extremely expensive drafting software in my classroom so very few people have access to this software. Because of this, just saving their work to a disk does not suffice for documenting their work so by providing them with an E-Portfolio my students will be able to save images of their work and share this with others without the need for the software.

I really enjoyed this process despite all of the little obstacles I encountered as I love the fact that this is going to be productive for my classroom. I can't wait to see how my students respond to these tutorials and how this improves my classroom.