Screencast-O-Matic is a free video recording tool that allows you to record your screen and share them. It is a great tool for making tutorials and giving feedback to your students. It can be downloaded and install for free to your laptop or PC. Screencast-O-Matic is currently one of the top free fast recording app that is easy to use, share and upload.
How do we start?
Download Screencast-O-Matic to your device.
What does it do?
Adjust the screen size that you would like to record.
Click the black frame to set up your recording preferences. You can adjust whether to share your screen only, webcam or both. Size and time of the recording can also be set as you wish. The narration with the microphone icon
has a green bar that shows recording levels.
What are the benefits to your teaching?
Feedback: Teachers can give oral feedback to students' work. This way, teachers can give detailed comments and students can easily refer back/access the feedback anytime they want. This kind of feedback can develop more personal closeness since students will feel the presence of their teachers through the video. The way this tool allows to record video and voice can help learners to save more time and understand teachers' message instead of reading it in paper.
Tutorial: Teachers can make video to give tutorial or brief information and have students watch before going to the lesson. Teachers with distance learning students can use this tool as main source of creating lectures or talk.
Reflection: Teachers can assign students to do some reflection by recording themselves using this tool. From this activity students can benefit in developing their speaking skill.
Tutorial: Teachers can make video to give tutorial or brief information and have students watch before going to the lesson. Teachers with distance learning students can use this tool as main source of creating lectures or talk.
Reflection: Teachers can assign students to do some reflection by recording themselves using this tool. From this activity students can benefit in developing their speaking skill.
What are the limitations?
Pricing: Although this tool offers the free version. It still has limted access such as the duration of the recording. Overall if you want to make use of this tool, upgrading them to premium version is still considerably affordable.
Timing: For teachers, integrating this tool to your classroom by making videos can be a bit frustrating. It will definitely take time to get use of this tool, how to manage yourself in the process of making a video as well as the time you spend.
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