Date: 
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Time:  
9:00am Pacific / 10:00am Mountain / 11:00am Central / 12:00pm Eastern

Location: Elluminate

Recording (full):  https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/installinfo/playback?psid=2009-05-16.0906.M.4AB5858A85BF37737D4015085780AF.vcr

Tiny URL for full recording:  http://tinyurl.com/pzcwrm

Recording (audio): http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/mathcasts.mp3

Recording (chat): http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR+20+LIVE+16+May+09

Portable Video File *NEW*: http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/mathcasts.mp4

Newbie Question of the Week: What are mathcasts and how can I use them to support my teaching?

Topic:  Mathcasts

Special Guest: Tim Fahlberg

Sharetabs link:  http://www.sharetabs.com/?classroom20live05162009

NOTE: We had an awesome bonus in our show today with Graeme McNeil (The Math Maker), Colleen King (creator of the Math Playground) and Shamblesguru who shared a great resource page for screencasting. Be sure to download the chat log to get some additional links that weren't included in the original Sharetabs!
http://www.themathmaker.com/
http://www.mathplayground.com
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/screencast/

Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions:

http://mathcasts.org/ (Tim Fahlberg: Mathcast/Math247 Website)
http://math247.pbworks.com/ (Tim Fahlberg: Math247 Wiki)
http://math247.pbworks.com/Presentations%20about%20mathcasts (Tim Fahlberg: Presentations about Mathcasts)
http://math247.pbworks.com/Why%20Should%20Students%20create%20mathcasts (Tim Fahlberg: Why Should Students Create Mathcasts?)
http://math247.pbworks.com/K-7+Mathcasts+500+Project (Listen to Wes Fryer, Karen Montgomery and Tim Fahlberg discuss wikis, mathcasts and the Mathcast 500 Project--goal to create a library of 500+ mathcasts for K-7 math using many student and educator voices)
http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/mathcastsorg/ (Will Richardson: Weblogg-ed post on Mathcasts.org)
http://www.mathplayground.com/mathcasts500.html (Colleen King: Math Playground website for Mathcasts 500 Project)
http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/2008/02/smart-board-a-1.html (SmartBoard and Mathcasts-Step 2; solution for creating Mathcasts quickly and easily using your SMART Board and the Sketchcast website. Sketchcast will allow you to create, store, and share your Mathcasts.)
http://math247.pbworks.com/South+Paris+Collaborative%27s+Mathcast+Portfolio (Lisa Parisi/Christine Southard South Paris Collaborative 5th grade student mathcasts-VoiceThreads contributed to the K-7 Mathcasts 500 Project)
http://wildaboutmath.com/2007/11/29/the-first-ever-wild-about-math-mathcast/ (Blog post by Sol Lederman: The First Ever Wild About Math! Mathcast which includes a Voicethread example)
http://annickpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/mathcasts-kids-teaching-kids.html (Annick LIVEbrary Online Classroom: Mathcasts-Kids teaching Kids)
http://ripplingpond.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/mathcasts-500-project-from-math-playground/ (Kathy Shields: Mathcasts 500 Project from Math Playground-Blog post reflection following a Women of the Web 2 webcast on EdTechTalk with Colleen King of Math Playground)
http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?cat=227 (Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast on EdTechTalk where they explore the power of tagging, teachers using tumblogs, mathcasts, VoiceThreads in health, speech, history, math, music, technology, and EFL classes.)
http://cegsa.editme.com/Mathcasts (Computers in Education Group of South Australia-Mathcasts including information about using Jing to create mathcasts)
http://www.mathtrain.com/mathtrain/mod/resource/view.php?id=7 (MathTrains: Student Created Mathcasts with math video lessons created by middle school students-can subscribe to the math videos
www1.etf.ukim.edu.mk/SCM_C021A06/conference/E3-1.pdf (eLearning Materials for Mathematics: Mathcasts, Self-Testing and Interactivities by Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska and Vitomir Stojanovski-downloadable pdf providing rationale for Mathcasts)
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/12/21/technology-shopping-cart-podcast02-wikis-voicethread-and-mathcasts/ (Wes Fryer: Podcast 211-Wikis, VoiceThread and Mathcasts with Tim Fahlberg, Karen Montgomery and Wes Fryer)
http://jingproject.com (Free online program for both Macs and Windows that allows you to capture your screen, record a video of on-screen action and share instantly over IM, email and web)
http://voicethread.com (collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.) Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp (Camtasia Studio-screen recorder software for Windows that offers free trial (fully functioning) for 30 days and $299.00 for purchase.
http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm   Screenflow Mac Screencasting software