Ideas for Screencast

So, I still haven't created a screencast for this assignment; however, I did create a SMART recording and post it on my website earlier in the year. Shannon and I wanted our seventh graders to refer back to our recorded directions for a project. We thought that this would ensure that every seventh grade student would have the same directions and information. Also, we wanted parents to have access to the directions for the project. It was not difficult, but I haven't seen much of a need to use this type of technology. Well, I suppose I do see the need, but it hasn't been very practical. In a perfect world, I would record every lesson, so students who are absent have the opportunity to watch the lessons. This would also be great as a review for students who were present for the lesson. I'm struggling to find the time to do this, so for now I want to treat these recordings as something I will do when I know multiple students will need them as a resource. Recently many of my students have been struggling with parts of speech. I have met with several of them during class and after school to review various concepts, but I would like to do more than this. I am thinking of creating a screencast that reviews each part of speech and putting it on my website. I will probably create a Word document with the definitions of each part of speech and examples, and I will use SMART recorder to explain these grammar concepts. I plan to work on this screencast this week, so I will post my parts of speech recording soon.