Reflections on my first experiences with Screencast-O-Matic (Virtual Team Assignment)

The way I have always lead my life and especially my teaching career is that I would volunteer when to do what was new and unknown.  Back in Denver, I worked in an Experiential Education school that was always pushing the teachers to try new and different strategies in our classrooms.  Back when iMovie was first introduced, I volunteered to learn and use it, when Skype was first introduced, I learned and used it to speak with friends' from Virginia and California who were teachers and their classrooms, and time and time again I would jump into new ventures with both fee. If it was a project or a committee that was created around new teaching concepts or technology, I wanted to be involved.

When being the voice around the Virtual Team's Assignment about implementing training in a new technology, I jumped at it.   I wanted to learn a new skill and knew that I'd need to use it again anyway. So, the first thing I did was send out a request for anyone in my faculty who had experience with Screencasts.  I found my Media Specialist was an avid user and even gave me his account and password so that my group could use some of the features that only come with a yearly subscription like playing video attachments embedded into our slides.  I ended up recording what I wanted to say for each slide in a rough form and then listened to it as a whole made some notes for revising and then recorded the whole screencast in one take.   My notes included examples to use, areas to add humor to break up monotony, and to remember to smile as I read to increase a positive tone.

The experience making this Virtual Team Screencast was a good one.  I feel I represented my team and myself in a professional, effective, and entertaining way.  I got very good feedback from my faculty and my teammates. 

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