The feedback from the screencasts was mostly positive, with some suggestions for improvement. Many people said that they benefited from our screencast and learned a lot about excel, which I was happy to hear! Some feedback said that they like how we showed how to actually get to excel, and open it. Someone also said they enjoyed the graphing portion of our tutorial, because we did an overview of the various graphing choices that excel has to offer, and then chose the one most appropriate for our dataset. In othe middle of one of our screencasts, we had to pause because we had made a mistake. The speaker said in the audio that "it's okay to make mistakes", and some peoplel commented that they liked that as well.
Some comments for improvement were provided as well. We did the advanced portion of our screencast in three different segments, which made the presentation in the end a bit choppy and not very cohesive, so someone had commented on this. Another comment was that some of our advanced lessons were somewhat basic. We also had a comment that when the averages were done, some of the keystrokes that were made were not spoken and the audio, making it difficult to follow. Someone also pointed out that it would have been useful to show the other math/statistics options available in excel. We had a comment as well that it would have been useful to know how to sort data, and that our presentation would have been better had it been rehearsed more and re-done in parts where there were slip-ups.
I was overall pleased with our feedback, and I really appreciate the points of improvement that we received. I definitely agree that our final product was a bit choppy. It would ahve been more cohesive to do it in one segment, or if we had at least watched the first segments of our screencasts before recording the next one so that we could provide a good transition from one to the next. I also agree that the "merge" of cells was a bit basic, and we should have been more creative and found a different function in excel to present in the advanced options. I agree that we should have elaborated more on the various math/statistics functions available in excel when we found the averages. We could have just looked through the list of math/statistics options and talked about a few that were relevant to our dataset, or we could have at least used another excel formula, like finding percentages. We also should have made sure in that screencast that everything was verbalized that we did. I thought initially that we had made every step clear in the screencasts, but I guess it wasn't clear to everyone. We should have reviewed this screencast closely to make improvements on it. I also didn't think to present how to sort data! That would have been an excellent function of excel to present in our advanced options.
Overall, I think our screencasts came out well, but there is always room for improvement. We could have reviewed our screencasts more closely, and edited or re-did the screencasts that were not as clear. That is definitely something I will do for next time! I'm really glad we got introduced to Jing though. It's a really neat and user-friendly software, and I definitely want to use it in my classroom. It will also be useful to learn about IMovie today, so that we can edit and improve any screencasts that we make on Jing.
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