UPDATE: Screencast-O-Matic rebranded and renamed in 2023 and is now ScreenPal. What Does this Tool Do? Screencastomatic is video and audio screen capture software. The online version that works well with windows, but doesn’t always play nicely with Mac. There’s a downloadable version that works equally well with both PC and Mac. Features of the program include: One click video screen capture and audio recording for videos of up to 15 minutes Easy upload directly to Youtube Resizable recording window (so you can hide your messy computer desktop, if you’re like me) Here’s the interface: Here’s the program in action:…
Author: Paula M Miller
Paula M Miller
Paula is a PhD graduate fellow at The Ohio State University studying rhetoric, composition, and literacy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of writing centers and multiliteracies. You can visit her online at paula-miller.com
As part of our 2014 year end review, for the next few weekends, we’ll be revisiting sessions from the 2014 International Writing Centers conference in Florida and exploring some of the conversations writing center scholars are having that explore digital rhetoric and digital composition’s relationship to writing center work. Featured in this post is a review of a session entitled, “Defining Differences and Achieving Consensus: What is an Online Writing Center?” Writing center professionals from The University of Mississippi examine issues of definition and practice in online writing center work. Brad Campbell, a writing center director at The University of…
As part of our ongoing conversation here at the DRC about digital composition and online teaching, I talked with the Ohio State Rhetorical Writing II MOOC Team via Google Hangouts on Air. Joined by Professors Cynthia Selfe, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Ben McCorkle, Kay Halasek, Susan Delagrange and PhD students Chad Iwertz and Mike Blancato, we discussed their reflections on MOOCs after successfully running the second iteration of their Rhetorical Writing II MOOC class. The team touches upon the challenges of responding to such a massive class of writers, surprising demographic information about MOOC participants, and the ways that their face…
I’m delighted to introduce myself to the DRC community. Below you’ll find my video introduction (now with cats). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klwGX7O2HMY