Was it something I read?

Screencasts are a digital platform for recording videos of whatever is on your screen, you talking about what is on your screen and then sharing the video with others. Screencasts are done most often to show others how to do something digitally they may not have known how to do. Rather than reading instructions, doing a screencast can lead a person through visual instructions where the viewer can follow along at the same time making it a great venue for disseminating information.  Screencasts in education: Students can record themselves giving presentations of their digital work. Teachers can give tutorials or instructions for learning.  Mentors or instructional coaches can create self-paced professional development. Allowing teachers to access and learn when    Screencast in the library: Offering PD to teachers on library resources or new tech tools to implement. Helping other librarians with OPAC reports as well as cre...

With an infographic, you can take information and transform it in a way that would be most appealing to the user by using words and visuals together. Using this platform of disseminating information seems easier and more fun to create than just using words alone because an infographic catches the intended viewers' attention and draws their eye to all the information. I had created infographics before using Canva but for this assignment, I tried out three new websites.  Easel.ly was easy to set up an account with. There were blank templates to choose from but not many options for themes. When I tried creating a new infographic,  I quickly realized there were not many options to choose from unless you upgrade to Go Pro. You can add shapes, media, lines, text, graphs/charts, and there is a grid to help keep everything but it was very hard to search for items. The infographic can be downloaded to a PDF and shared, but there was nothing easy about it unless you had the mone...