This week we worked on screen-casting and making these videos interactive with H5P. I am personally interested in working with kindergarten students, so this may not be that useful for them. I feel like I want to use minimal technology with them during their formative years. However, one benefit I do see could be using this to communicate with parents on how to use an online platform for the school or our classroom. For example, navigating a classroom website or assessment tool.

I have seen screen casting done before with a grade 8 class, where the teacher created screen cast videos demonstrating the math concept they were working on. Students and families were able to access these videos on google classroom and use them to support their studying/homework.

I could see myself doing this with students as early as grade 5. Screen-casting videos that demonstrate how to do their homework and making it interactive for activities such as watching videos can be beneficial. It is helpful to reach families at home so they don’t have to wait and talk to me in person or by email. This eliminates work for both parties and offers support that can be reached as needed. My one obvious worry is that not all families have the capabilities to access these resources and would need to communicate and find out if all families have access to a computer. As always, I believe if used intentionally multi-media resources can benefit those teachers who use them!