This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 144 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast.

In this episode we're going to teach you everything you need to know about making a great

screencast video.

A screencast video is one where you hear a person's voice talking and on the screen you see something

else, like maybe a demonstration of a tech tool or a slideshow of some kind or maybe

even words and diagrams being drawn on the screen as the presenter talks.

Basically a screencast shows you whatever is on the presenter's screen while the presenter

narrates.

If you ever went to YouTube to learn how to do something techy, chances are you watched

a screencast video.

I absolutely love screencasts.

In fact creating screencast videos was my very first foray into more advanced technology.

I was working with student teachers, meeting with them for seven full days throughout their

student teaching semester to help them with their final projects.

Everything was going fine, but then one semester we were told we had to reduce our in-person

meetings from seven days to two.

Suddenly and without much warning I was forced to quickly figure out a way to get the

same amount of help and information to my students in two days that I used to do in

seven.

That's when I learned how to make a screencast video.

I took all the lectures that I had given in class, lectures that involved me going through

the complicated parts of their project forms in painstaking detail and recorded them

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