How to Afford a Mathcast Studio
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- Use the book & tutorials for Whiteboard Movie Creation
& Production (see Tutorials) to discover how to create and produce
whiteboard movies.
- Buy a 6"x8" graphics tablet for about $80 and a headset with
a microphone for about $15 and then use the annotation software that
came with your board, SMART Notebook software, NotateIt, or the Windows
freebie Microsoft NetMeeting Whiteboard to make your first Whiteboard
Movies. See Tools for more details about tablets, software, etc.
- Download and use the 30-day trial version of TechSmith Camtasia Studio to record and produce your Whiteboard Movies.
- Train at least one student how to create and produce movies
using the LIVE Method. Ask this student to train more students, so you
won't have to spend so much individual instruction time.
- Have students create & produce WBMs.
- Produce movies, then upload to the web and/or put them on CD using Camtasia Studio.
- Give students, parents, and administrators links to movies
and/or CDs. Ask for feedback. Publicize your work. Develop some
cheerleaders and supporters of your work and your students' work.
- Go to your school's PTA and ask them for money to buy
software/hardware - a good studio for making and producing for four
users costs about $1000 ($250 per station). Or ask a few parents to
contribute money and/or graphics tablets, headsets or microphones,
screen recording software, etc. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised
at how willing parents will be to provide $ or tools for your classroom
because they've seen just how excited their sons & daughters are
and how much more they learn when they're creating, producing, or
sharing Whiteboard Movies.
- Make more movies.
- Repeat steps 4-9 as needed.
Notes:
- Try to create/produce and/or have students create/produce at
least 3-4 movies per week in order to build up a portfolio (and
increase your skills and thus decrease production time).
- Develop a team of students and/or teachers to create sets of movies that cover each topic taught at your school.
- Have students create whiteboard movies to add to their
digital portfolios and have them create a web page or a CD with all of
these to share with their parents - and possibly your community.
- Try to get someone to do a story about your work – start
with your school's newspaper but then seek out coverage from your local
newspaper and television station. Your goal is to bring honor to your
school, students, the parents who supported you, and to your own work
for making all of this possible. This is what Mary Moore did in
Richland, Washington and both the newspaper and the TV station came out
to report on their work.
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