Screencast Gallery | Digital Writing 101

This page contains my master list of screencasts. You will find most of these screencasts embedded into the appropriate handouts, but you might find it helpful to browse the screencast channel or album as well.

As with everything else I do, I frequently try to improve how I’ve organized these screencasts, so if you can’t find what you’re looking for on one of the pages below, try browsing the albums and channels on my main Vimeo profile page.

I made these screencasts for my students and colleagues in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder. Colleagues: please feel free to request new screencasts!

For All Amy’s Students

For Students in Amy’s sections of WRTG 3020

For the PWR

  • Screencasts for PWR Faculty
  • Screencasts for PWR Students

ABOUT SCREENCASTS

What’s a Screencast?

A screencast is video recording of a computer screen that includes an audio voiceover. Screencasts are most commonly used to offer viewers instructions on how to do various tasks on the computer.

In order to help you develop the digital literacy skills you’ll need to be successful in our class as well as beyond college, I’ve made some short screencasts for you that walk you through the steps of using our class blog, writing for the web, composing in digital media, and more. Some of these I will also cover in class, but the screencasts are a helpful resources for reviewing steps.

Rhetorical Rationale

I’ve put a lot of work into trying to make the screencasts as appealing to you as possible, by keeping each one narrowly focused on one topic and, in most cases, under five minutes. I also tend to talk and move fairly quickly, on the theory that if I go too quickly for a viewer, the viewer can always pause and rewind, whereas if I go too slowly, the viewer might grow bored and stop watching.

But I welcome your feedback about any of the screencasts, including parts you found helpful as well as parts that were confusing or where you would’ve liked more detail. The videos should have comments enabled on Vimeo, but if that doesn’t work, send your comments by email or post them at the bottom of this page.

SCREENCAST PREVIEW

Below are the nine most recent screencasts in my Custom WP for All Class Blogs album on Vimeo, just to give you an idea what screencasts look like.