My Screencast was called: Building a FPV Freestyle Drone – The Basics
This was my first screen cast I have ever created. I found it challenging to try and balance all the multi media inputs all at the same time like the voice over and the visual demonstration. I have a background in teaching swimming and I have been doing that now for almost 7 years so I am familiar with some of the core concepts of teaching. My usual strategy when it came to teaching a skill when swimming was step by step. It went: Say, Show, Explain, Practice. But with creating a screencast you have can do the say and show at the same time very comfortably which took some getting used to. I noticed though that when learning about screen casting I had already understood the concepts of pretraining and segmenting since these are very useful tactics when teaching any stroke at any swimming level.
When creating this screen cast about the basics of FPV Freestyle drone building I tried to employ the concepts of segmenting, pretraining, and modality mostly since these concepts I was most familiar with using in my teaching experience and watching other screencasts online but what surprised me the most as a very effective tool was signaling. I found that adding text to supplement the facts I was presenting was a rather useful thing. By adding it with my narration and visuals it served to drive home important but related facts that help you stay focused and understand the concept I was speaking on. Like when speaking on what KV is I added text saying how KV relates to the power and size of the motor which if this knowledge was just added as narration It would have made the narration drag on.
When designing my screen cast I imagined the audience as a person who is somewhat already interested in FPV freestyle drones but doesn’t know where to start when they are deciding what parts to order. I wanted the audience to understand the difference in drone frames and the purposes they serve by being different and how these differences relate to the batteries and motors you can select after deciding your frame. This was something I had to do a lot of research on when I built my first drone so I wanted to make a bit size screencast that if I had when I was first learning could have greatly benefitted from.
Overall I enjoyed learning how to screencast and I feel I could improve so much more with practice. Learning how these learning principles from this module work together to optimize learning by managing cognitive load and enhancing how learners process multimedia content was super interesting. A lot of the concepts I knew already from my teaching experience but learning how to apply them to multimedia learning was an interesting experience. I would definitely say that in general I’m more comfortable teaching person to person face to face as of right now.
I find it really interesting how you were able to translate your teaching experience from swimming to creating your first screencast! I also faced similar challenges in managing all those different multimedia elements at once. Your strategy of “Say, Show, Explain, Practice” is also very interesting and I can understand how it could take some time to implement that digitally. Although I have never been interested in building a drone myself, your video has surely piqued my interest. I can also see how helpful your screencast can be for people getting into FPV freestyle drones. Good work! I hope you can get more comfortable with this medium over time.
Awesome job on your first screencast! It’s impressive how you brought your teaching experience from swimming into this new format. I feel like you managed everything really well in this screencast! The way you broke down the drone-building process made it really accessible, even for someone like me who’s not really into drones. I’m sure anyone starting out with FPV freestyle drones would find it super helpful. I look forward to seeing your future posts!