Thing 6: Screencasting with Educreations

As a librarian, I like to reinforce concepts and curriculum in the library through various activities. One area that I like to support is literary elements aka figurative language. I found the following video on Educreations about literary elements. I would use this video as a refresher for  these elements in literature before completing an activity with the students.

I picked this lesson because students often confuse the literary elements and this video gives the definition with several examples and visuals for each one. Students are more likely to remember something they have learned if there is a picture related to the information. I would use the video as whole group instruction and break up into small groups for the activity. The activity is a matching game. Students have the term, definition, and example of different pieces of paper-terms on yellow paper, definitions on blue paper, and examples on green paper. Students work as a group to match each term to its definition and example. I've done the activity before without the video. Now I will add the video to the lesson.

I created an Educreations of pictures I took in Ash Hollow, Nebraska and the surrounding areas. These pictures still show the wagon wheel tracks from the pioneer days. It is a living piece of history and was really exciting to see.

When I was creating this Educreation video, the toughest part was finding a topic to use. That would be the hardest part in beginning to use the program. Once you have decided on the topic, creating the screencast is very simple. I think students would have an easy time in utilizing the program to create screencasts.