A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen combined with audio narration. Free and simple-to-use authorship tools now make it possible for everyone to use images, language and sound for self-expression and communication. Learn to make a screencast by using your laptop to access, analyze, create and reflect on the media we consume and create. Making screencasts can strengthen students' ability to comprehend and analyze print, visual, sound and digital media.

1. Renee Hobbs
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island
Massachusetts Reading Association
Quincy MA
April 10, 2014
Using Screencasting to
Advance Critical Reading and
Multimedia Compositions in
Grades 4 - 12

2. PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING
Understand how screencasting as an authoring tool
advances reading comprehension, critical analysis
and writing skills
Consider the power of screencasting to build bridges
between home and school literacies
Collaborate to produce a screencast and reflect on
learning-by-doing as a transformative practice
Reflect on how to bring screencasting to learners in
your school
Goals for Today’s Session

3. www.mediaeducationlab.com

4. www.mediaeducationlab.com

5. www.harrington.uri.edu

6. Powerful Voices for Kids is a
curriculum and professional
development program for digital
and media literacy education with
children in Grades K - 6.
www.powerfulvoicesforkids.com

7. Living in a
Multimodal World

9. Screencasting 101

10. Screencasting enables a user to make
movies of anything on a computer screen,
adding narration or ambient sound

11. Who Makes Screencasts?
Teachers Learners

12. Clip Compilation

13. Demonstrate Reading Fluency
LINK

14. Demonstrate Literary Analysis
LINK

15. Making the Home – School Connection

16. Interpret and
Comment on Music Videos
LINK

17. Screencasting Downloading

18. www.mediaeducationlab.com

19. ACCESS
ANALYZEE
CREATE
REFLECT
ACT
REFLECT
ACCESS
Media Literacy Learning Process

20. Screencasting for Media Literacy
1. Watch examples of screencasts that use critical
analysis and discuss the content and format
2. Identify a media text to analyze
3. Small groups brainstorm & analyze
4. Write out sentences to provide commentary
5. Rehearse performance & revise
6. Record a screencast
7. Review and offer warm and cool feedback
8. Share with authentic audiences

21. LINK

22. Introducing the
Media Literacy Smartphone

23. Introducing the
Media Literacy Smartphone

24. Critically Analyze a YouTube Text
LINK

25. Analyzing iCarly
LINK

26. www.screencast-o-matic.com

27. Warm and Cool Feedback

28. LEARNING TARGETS:
• I can watch TV with the purpose of thinking about how and
why the program was made.
• I can use critical questions to analyze a media message.
• I can write answers to critical questions and think about
what my audience needs to know.
• I can perform my answers as spoken language using good
pacing, tone and fluency.
• I can use technology to create a short screencast.
• I can give feedback to others and accept feedback about
my work.
www.powerfulvoicesforkids.com

29. ACCESS
ANALYZEE
CREATE
REFLECT
ACT
REFLECT
ACCESS
Media Literacy Learning Process

30. TAKE-AWAY IDEAS
Screencasting enables learners to
demonstrate the performance of
reading comprehension and
interpretation
Screencasting is a multimodal
authoring tool that combines
language, image and sound to
communicate ideas
Student-created screencasts that
activate critical analysis skills with
media and popular culture help
connect home and school literacies

31. Summer Institute in Digital Literacy
June 13 – 18, 2014
Providence RI USA

32. Summer Institute in Digital Literacy
June 13 – 18, 2014
Providence RI USA
www.mediaeducationlab.com

33. www.mediaeducationlab.com

34. CONTACT ME!
Renee Hobbs
Professor & Founding Director
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @reneehobbs
Web: http://mediaeducationlab.com