Screencast, Instagram and Flipagram
Screencast-o-matic
Screencast-o-matic was more
simpler than I thought. I had seen our
professors from Sam Houston done several screencast videos, but never had I
experienced doing one myself. I wanted
to create a quick tutorial that would be useful for our staff to benefit
from. I always seem to get the same
question or student who asks me “Mrs. I’m locked in AR can you unlock me?” Even though, I’ve demonstrated to teachers
how to unlock students some might not remember how, so with that in mind I
decided to make this quick easy tutorial of how to unlock students within the
program Accelerated Reader known as AR. My
goal would be for me to link or embed this tutorial in my webpage or even email
it to our staff members for future reference.
Instagram
Instagram, in my opinion can be a
great tool for our students and staff members to use for the promotion of any
upcoming event they might be having. I
did a post promoting our District-wide Back-to-school Expo. I can foresee how much a school and library can
benefit from these type of apps. I had
not used this tool in the library because we need to have our School District
approve it first, so I have not been utilizing this tool as much as I should or
can. Instragram seems to be earning more
popularity with younger users rather than Facebook, so therefore I feel
students would be able to view posts more if Instagram is approved through our
District as a resource to use.
Flipagram
Flipagram was pretty simple to
use as well. I have used Flipagram as part
of one of my past Sam Houston courses requirements for the introduction of my
other courses. I can foresee myself
using Flipagram in the library to be able to create and share videos of our
students participating in the library with different miscellenaous events. I used Flipagram this year earlier in the
library when I created a video to showcase some headstart 3 year olds visiting
the library. They were visiting our
school as part of their orientation and while their I read them a book and in
conjunction with the music teacher we also sang allowed them to sing as well the
book. I also prepared some baggies with
goodies and they even received a book from Henry Ford Elementary. I love this video and this resource.
My Favorite:
My
favorite one tool from all these three is Flipagram maybe because I was able to
create a video showcasing some pretty little faces. I love all these tools and enjoy learning
more of these type of resources.
Overall, I feel that any resource will work if you make it work, and
they all seemed to be great additions to my library toolbox.
I agree with your statement that any resource will work if you take the time to make it work. Finding the best way for each application to support learning is key and some apps are appeal to different people with different technology backgrounds. My favorite was Screencast-o-matic because I have used it multiple times. I finally entered the world of Instagram and can see how user friendly and quick it is. I liked your Flipagram!
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