inquiry and screencast

This project was definitely the most time consuming and I had to exert a lot of effort on it. Surprisingly, I found plenty of scholarly articles on this topic and I actually had trouble finding informal sources. Making the screencast was somewhat irritating. My script was way too long and it cut me off after five minutes. I had to go back through and delete things that I really wanted to say and try it again. The second time, I pressed the save button instead of the upload to screencast.com button and so I again had to do it over. Once I figured it out though, it was a pretty easy program to use. I actually really like this tool and I can see myself using it in the classroom. For example, I may want to show the children pictures of something and talk about it and provide information while they view the pictures. I could also see this being useful in communicating with parents or substitutes. It could be a good way to show them how I do something with the students in the classroom as a way to extend that in to the home. The information that I acquired from this assignment is also helpful. Like I said in my screencast, I had previously learned about how to teach reading and writing, but now I know how to use technology to do so. I really liked the article about the interactive whiteboard because I really hope that I will have the opportunity to use one in my classroom. I would like more information about the animation article. I thought it seemed really hard to believe that 3 and 4 year olds could created animated stories with little adult help. But if this is truly possible, I would love to try this in my class one day. In conclusion, I am pretty impressed with Jing and I'm glad you introduced it to us!