Part 1: The Purpose of My Podcast 

Technology can be tricky and there are so many steps involved in doing the most basic of tasks.  I made a how-to video about printing our wedding invitations.  I live in Korea and while I was in Texas over the Christmas break we bought our invitations and I printed most of them but I accidentally left some of them at my fiances house in Ohio.  Since I have experience printing them, and we want them all to be the same I made a screen-cast on how I printed them.

Part 2: Ways it can Enhance Learning

It is sad to say that I didn't know the first thing about how to make a screen-cast myself until just a few months ago.  I watch them all the time on You-tube and other type websites and they are extremely helpful but I never thought I would need to make them myself.  This year I have used them almost on a daily basis in my teaching.  I work with another teacher in teaching information technology to middle school students.  He teaches the students one day and I teach them the next.  It is not the most ideal situation but it is what we have to do this year.  We run our class like a distance education class.  We make screen-casts of the assignments and how to use the programs and embed them on a e-learning platform.  The students are able to watch the video as many times as they want and get to see what is happening on the screen as I talk.  It helps that it is both visual and auditory. 

Part 3: Using Jing for my Pod-cast

Jing is a great program to use for screen-casting.  I is user friendly and can be learned in minutes.  It is nice because there are so many way to share your picture/video.  I even embedded the code in this blog.  I will definitely use Jing in the future.  

Here is my Pod-cast