Create a Script for your Upcoming Screencast

Over the weekend, and in your spare time, I would also like you to create a script for your upcoming Screencasting Assignment.

There are two ways you could approach this assignment. We will be using Jing to transform our PowerPoint presentations into 5 minute screencasts. The challenges we will face in completing this project relate mainly to preparing a plan of attack and organizing our content to fit within the 5 minute time constraint. The goal of this assignment is to help us organize our thoughts, words and content into a "plan" that we can use when we begin recording our screen casts next week.

If you plan to add audio to your screencast and talk through your slides as if you were presenting your PowerPoint to the class, I recommend going through your slides and writing out the exact words you will say. This will become your script. You should rehearse your script by doing a dry run of the presentation and get a feel for how it fits with your slides and test the timing of your presentation.

If you plan to annotate your presentation (use additional text boxes, arrows, diagrams, etc) rather than add voice to your screencast, your script should outline what text and or other items you will add to each slide. This will help you develop a specific plan to follow when we begin our screencast recordings.

I would like to begin testing the screen casting software with our PowerPoint presentations next Wednesday, so it is important that you prepare a draft of your script by that time. Please submit your Script Draft by Wednesday, October 21, 2009.