Two new screencasts

My PED335 screencast from the weekend. I was nice to them this weekend, only uploading a short 5 minute clip! I have also tried to take on board some of the student feedback, that I lacked enthusiasm when presenting my screencasts. I completely agree with them! When you compare this screencast to all of my other ones, I do seem to be a lot more “into it”. I guess it comes down to prioritising when and where you create your screencasts – eg) not at 11pm or in an office where other people can hear you!

Bonus screencast for this coming Friday (unfortunately just had to spend an hour re-editing and re-uploading after YouTube decided I had used copyrighted content from the 2008 Olympics):

Biomechanics 1.1 [screencast] + student feedback

This screencast prompted a lot of student discussion on our Facebook page. The first issue was that I lack enthusiasm during the recording, making hard for students to stay motivated for the duration of the presentation. This is something I really need to consider for future screencasts. The second was related to two points I made during the video. One physics student (who is doing scholarship physics this year) stated that I had misinterpreted two common principles during the video.

Biomechanical analysis using iPad [video]

Just a quick video of a student and I discussing his volleyball serve using the Coach’s Eye app on the iPad. We are just introducing biomechanical analysis and this was their first opportunity to look at themselves performing a skill, and first attempt at any type of visual analysis.

Biomechanics recap [screencast]

Moving forward with more screencasts for my flipped classroom. This one was probably a little rushed – I found a few typos and voice mistakes after I have finished exporting. This lead me to find another useful tool though, and thats YouTube annotations. Annotations allow you to overlay speech bubbles or windows that you can type messages into. As an example I used an annotation to apologise for typos at the start of the presentation above. Additionally I could add bubbles as prompts when I need the students to pause for a task, or to pose questions during the presentation too. A very useful addition to my videos!

Motor skill learning recap [screencast]

First PE content based screencast completed. This will be used with my year 13 students this week to recap level 2 physical education concepts around motor skill learning. This one has a little more content than my first video. I inserted two YouTube videos into the screencast which required a little thinking outside the square as I didn’t want to have to use my laptop. In the end I managed by using a YouTube download app called iSafePlay, then imported the video into Coach’s Eye. Finally I tied it all together using iMovie. Quite happy with the result!

Later in the week I am planning on writing a post that goes into a bit more detail about some of these other apps I mentioned and how they are helping my create my screencasts.

My first video screencast [Flipped classroom]

Quite keen for feedback from my first video using Explain Everything. The video introduces the flipped classroom experience to my Year 13 Physical Education students. We will be flipping our lessons next term as we begin our Performance Appraisal unit on Squash.

Verbal assessment: the hard and the easy way

Recently, members of our faculty have started experimenting with verbal assessment across some of our Level 1 NCEA tasks. The above video shows one of our teachers and student in action. Below I highlight why I think this is the hard way, then outline a couple easier ways that verbal assessment could be performed.

Practical session using “Heart Rate Free” app

My PED335 class have been training towards a half marathon which they will be completing 7 days from now. In our theory lessons last week, we discussed the role of tapering when faced with an important competition or event.

Essential iPad apps for educators

First post and just a quick one. After owning my iPad for 6 months, there are two apps I use on a daily basis which make administrative tasks a breeze. Dropbox and Notability are the two most used apps on my iPad.

Dropbox is a cloud service which allows me to link my iPhone, iPad, work laptop and home laptop together. This allows me to create, view and save documents across all of these devices, removing the need for an external hard drive or easily lost USB stick. When I save a file to my Dropbox, it uploads that file to all of my devices the next time I am on them.