Raise the Bar: Eight Reasons I Hate Your Screencast

I have a policy: Be honest. My policy gets me in trouble a lot. I was working with a new instructor who was independently creating his first online course. He was acting as both subject matter expert and course developer. “You want my honest opinion?” I asked for the second time.

My screencasts are terrible. Sometimes necessarily so. Most times I wish I could follow the really useful advice given here in this article. It is a quick read with clear rationales for his suggestions. If I were to teach a media tech course I would definitely steal the ideas in here.

I would also like to know what tools he uses to make his screencasts like “breaking the instructor out of the box”. Yeah, I gotta figure out how to do that as well as figure out a sensible, sustainable workflow. I now have as a goal the creation of one, non-sucky screencast for my online Intro to Lit class this fall.

I’ll let you know how it all works out in an adventure-filled screencast coming to a browser near you.