Benefits of Screencasts

 

            Screencasting has many uses, such as teachers walking through assignments, giving individualized instruction, revisiting lessons, attending parent-teacher conferences, providing feedback, and many more (Crook,2021). Screencast can help all students feel supported, heard, and assisted in completing their work. According to Ali (2016), students who received screencasting feedback showed significant improvements in their overall writing skills over those who did not receive it. This information helps solidify that using screencasts to give feedback can help students figure out their mistakes, give examples of the corrections, and add resource links to give students places to further their understanding of that skill.

            The benefits of screencasts that stick out to me are that teachers can more easily differentiate instruction to students, give direct feedback with readily available resources, and create a digital profile for students and parents. A teacher being able to create screencasts that cater to a small group of students or one student is powerful because, try as we might, teachers cannot help all students all day long. Having a tool that essentially helps your students while you are physically meeting with others is a dream come true! Then, using screencasts to give direct feedback to students while giving them specific ways to correct their mistakes is an excellent way for students to continue to feel supported. Always keeping track of students' work digitally or physically is rewarding for students, parents, and teachers. Everyone gets to see how much growth the student has made. Currently, the only challenges I see with screencasts are finding time to create them and ensuring the classroom is a one-to-one building with technology.

            For my students, I would use a screencast to complete stations. This way, the teacher assistant can see the video with the students, and they can follow the instructions to complete the activity. As my students grow and gain more language to communicate, I would use the screencast to model reading assignments, writing a word or sentence, and completing a math worksheet. I would not be able to give my students feedback with screencast because they need correcting right away to ensure they learn to complete tasks correctly.  

 

Works Cited: 

Ali, A. D. (2016). Effectiveness of using screencast feedback on EFL students’ writing and perception. English Language Teaching, 9(8), 106. https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n8p106

Crook, L. (2021, May 5). 10 ways to use video for in-person learning. Screencastify. https://www.screencastify.com/blog/10-ways-to-use-video-for-in-person-learning 

 

 

Comments

  1. Carson ESLNovember 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM

    I agree that screencasts allow teachers to individualize instruction for various student needs. I like your idea of using screencasts for stations. When completing stations in my class, I am often pulled in every direction to clarify and support students. Having recorded directions would alleviate a lot of this stress!

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  2. RobinsonNovember 15, 2024 at 7:46 PM

    Rayne,
    Your use of screencasts to facilitate differentiation is a great idea. As students have different needs and accommodations, it can feel like a teacher can not be in all places at once. The ability to tailor instructions to individual students or groups of students based on their needs allows you to do just that as they are provided customized instructions while you can rotate helping students in person.
    Thanks for the post.

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