Worked Example Screencast: Teaching Excel

This is a playlist of a series of videos that teach how to produce a simple system to control purchases, sales, and payroll of a small business, which progress teaching several resources in Microsoft Excel.

The narration is in Portuguese, as I will use them as tutorials for my students this semester (they need to produce a similar system, as a final assignment), but I believe the visuals communicate the main message.

The playlist is still not ready - I plan to produce 10 additional videos, and will keep adding them to the playlist.

I recorded the videos using a Camtasia trial version, a software I have never used before but always wanted to test its zoom feature. I had a lot of fun, and video after video, I tried adding new features, such as different Call-Outs, Title Clips, extra Sound Clips etc. The narration was recorded separately, using Audacity, and then added to the Camtasia project. 

Digital Story: You are now a Bird

This is the short digital story of my father's life.

Mayer's personalization principle is here represented on its dialogical style, which involves the user in a conversation with the narrator. To reinforce that, I use mainly my voice instead of printed words.

I have learned from this project a little more how to edit sound, images, and video simultaneously, but mainly how I admire and miss my dad.

Customization x Collaboration in Distance Education

This podcast (which already has a logo), produced in Portuguese by Artesanato Educacional, covers creative and innovative topics on Education Technology and Distance Education.

This episode discusses how (and if) it is possible to combine customization with collaboration in Distance Education, that is to say, individualized studies and interaction with peers and teachers.

I used Audacity to record and edit this episode. Dropbox was used to store the mp3 exported file online. Then the link was posted on this blog.

I usually produce my assignments in English, but reading the instructions and rubric, I understood  a Portuguese audio would work, both because it is much more useful for me (this is actually the second episode of the series I started, inspired at the beginning of this course, for Artesanato Educacional, a company that delivers online courses on Distance Education and Education Technology) and because it can be evaluated in terms of audio, narration, music, the explanation on the blog, the general idea for the podcast and this episode etc.

If needed, however, I will produce something in English.