Mariya Khan
Instructional Designer & Educator
Screencast Demonstration
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Objectives Met -
Objective #2: Create conditions for learning by applying theories (eg. learning theories, curriculum theory and communications theories) to authentic scenarios involving diverse populations.
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Objective #3: Use modern technologies, and techniques (eg. collaborative
teamwork and rapid prototyping) to design and develop learning materials,
media and environments that promote near and far transfer of content knowledge.
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Objective #6: Initiate, lead, facilitate and advocate for positive change and innovation in the educational technology workplace as new technologies, techniques, and theories of learning, design and change emerge.
Description -
The video screencast simulation demonstrates a basic video tutorial instructing users through how to manipulate or edit an image using the Photoshop application. Since manipulation of Photoshop and image editing skills are becoming a necessity in any technology related job force, this single instructional screencast, could potentially become a “how-to series” benefitting a global population. The screencast visually illustrates how to easily utilize cropping features and methods to remove the background of an image in Photoshop. The video includes an audio narration, transition features (from one page to another), intro/outro music, visual narration, and title screens (Objective 2, 3, and 6). The creation of this video diversifies the online learning environment and uses a simple and effective tool in order to teach a specific skillset within a given time frame (Objective 2).
Since the topic of this screencast is related to technology-based image applications, students should be able to transfer the learned skills to other content areas and other image editing applications as well (Objective 3). This also means that the knowledge of these skills could create a user interest in the use of Photoshop or other image editing applications, which will allows students to explore the use of other types of similar applications as well.