This vidcast includes a selection videos intended to train educators to effectively use educational technologies. Dr. Christy Keeler conceived and created most of the videos.
Creating Embed Code for Discovery Education's Videos
This video introduces the process of locating a video segment in Discovery Streaming, downloading that segment, uploading it to MediaShare (within Discovery Streaming), and procuring the embed code needed to link to the video.
20 March 2010, 4:10 pm
Creating a Blog
This video introduces the basics of procuring a Blogger account. It teaches viewers how to create a blog and is nicely coupled with the video titled "Introduction to Blogger." For novice blog users, I recommend starting by reviewing the content at the "'How To'—Navigating Blogs" website.
7 December 2009, 6:10 pm
Flickr Toys
This video teaches the use of Flickr Toys at Big Huge Labs to create movie posters/book covers and trading cards.
25 March 2009, 5:56 pm
Google Docs Basics
This video introduces the basics of using Google Docs including creating a new document, sharing a document, editing documents across users, and deleting a document. I recommend viewing the video Google Docs in Plain English before watching this brief tutorial.
23 March 2009, 11:02 pm
Audacity Basics
This video introduces basic of Audacity, audio editing software available for free online. The video demonstrates features such as adding sound effects from downloaded files, adding audio files recorded using iTalks on iPods, and using basic features of Audacity such as the envelope and time shifting tools.
5 March 2008, 3:23 am
Extracting Audio from iMovies
This is a very brief video that demonstrates creating a simple video in iMovie and then extracting the audio from the movie. It then shows how to transfer the audio into iTunes and covert it into MP3s.
4 February 2008, 5:34 am
iTunes Basics
17 January 2008, 6:22 pm
Using, Posting, and Commenting in Blogs
In addition to introducing use, post, and commenting within blogs, this video differentiates between public and password-protected blogs.
18 December 2007, 7:14 am
Using and Creating Forms in Microsoft Word
This video introduces the use and creation of forms in Microsoft Word.