Screencasts, Vine, and Instagram assignment

Screencasts, Vine, and Instagram

I open an account first with Instagram. It was fairly easy. I posted three pictures and thought I can use this to make awareness of public library or of an event in my library such as a book fair or even when we are celebrating Dr. Seuss birthday. Also it can be used to notify of a new book to the library. Here are my pictures I did for Dr. Seuss.  I found a website that gave ten ways a classroom can use Instagram.  It gives example such as “Imagine what a favorite character would post” and “Share reading recommendations.” The other I used was Vine and it allows for you to post a video but it has to be only a few seconds long. I went to my public library and saw they were reading a book and they did a puppet show. So I got a video of the event and posted on Vine. With Vine I thought I could use it as a reminder or as a notice of what events is coming to our school. It can be an introduction to a book assignment or it can be used as "try to figure what this book is about" by giving clues in the video. On this website it stated that schools should be mindful of what they allow to use because it has a lot of content that is questionable for your students. Another website said they would use it for students to choose their favorite character from Mac Beth and make a video of their famous line. This other website  gives good ideas of how to use Vine, for example for math it can gives a short video for comprehension.  Another example it can create a scene of the book they are reading. I liked this example a “How to video”. Last how to use Vine is in “Demonstrate Key Concepts”, it maybe that the Vine videos are only six seconds long but the viewer can benefit because they have a continuous loop.

I also made a book summary using Adobe Video. It was fun making the video. I took photos and played around with the music. Finally this is what I created. My Rapunzel’s Revenge book summary video. See if you like it too. 

I also got to use Screenocasst. It was easy to use. I just downloaded to my computer and choose a website to demonstrate and started to record. I chose Toondoo Website because it was fun and quite simple to demonstrate. Here is my website demonstration I did with screencasts. On Edutopia they give examples on how to use Screencast. They claim it’s a new version of PowerPoint. Also that it is good at giving sample of math problems where it shows how to do a problem rather than just showing facts. 
Here is another How to video with Makebeliefscomix.com using ScreenOcasts. Hope you like it. Tell me what you think. Makebeliefscomixs.com