Screencasts are fun!

Last week we were challenged to create a screencast or live video teaching someone something. I chose a screencast because of my lack of free time. I also have no one to help me demonstrate blocking footwork as everyone is swamped with finals (though I think the real reason everyone said no is because they didn't want to put up the net). Either way, I decided I would set sail on the voyage to create a screencast.
I thought that I would have a lot harder time creating the screencast, I spent nearly thirty minutes just picking which one I wanted to download. Eventually I chose screencastify due to the reviews and the screencasts of the screencast app they had presented. It looked fairly easy to manage and not too complicated. I then began to walk through the steps in creating a google blogger blog account. But because I did these steps in my head I forgot a few minor details. I decided that I would use my old gmail account from my previous school to create a blog, just so that the viewer could see it on a fresh platform. This seemed to be a great idea, except I could not remember my previous password. I spent twenty seconds alone typing in different variations of passwords. Once I was in, I did a much better job at navigating. Sometimes I got a little distracted by the different tools available to me in the corner, and for some reason I had the urge to use them all. My next hurdle came in the form of tabs. Screencast only records the tab you're in, or at least the version I decided to record it in did. So i was forced to copy and paste my links back into the tab to open something new. That wasn't really challenging, it was just time consuming. I also struggled with personalizing the templates offered. I couldn't remember all of the different customization it offered because when I was doing mine, I just experimented. I found that making a screencast does not just entail knowing the app and software, but knowing the steps in what you are doing as well. If only I could think of something else to screencast, they're actually a lot of fun!