Overview of Week 1

This week is all about giving you practice with a few production tools, the process of hosting a video on YouTube, and adding interactive elements to your screencast.  There are a myriad of options out there, but we wanted to keep things simple as possible while giving you the capabilities to produce quality content.

Gearing Up

  • Download Screencast-O-Matic to your Mac/PC
  • Setup a YouTube account
  • Setup a PlayPosit account

Maker Space

  • Storyboard a 4-5 slide "Introduction to You" screencast
  • Build out your slides in PowerPoint, Keynote, Google slides, or Prezi
  • Create a 2:00 - 2:30 minute draft screencast
  • Upload to YouTube
  • Add 1-2 questions using PlayPosit
  • Submit link in Canvas Discussion thread for your group