Our school recently gave a Chrome Book cart with 30 Chrome books to our exploratory team to share.  As a result, this Microsoft Word addict decided it was time to dive into google more and I registered for a class called Google Classroom Applications. I figured I would share my learning journey along the way.  

I learned to use Quicktime to screen cast.  It was quite simple, but took some time to play around and get the settings just right.  I clicked Quicktime>File>New Screen Recording.  I turned the volume all the way down and clicked the arrow to the right of the record button to say I wanted mouse clicks and to use the built in microphone.  Once I hit record I had to pick which portion of the screen I wanted to record or simply click to record the entire screen.  To stop recording you click the icon at the top of your screen.  Note to self, do not start talking right away and given plenty of time to hit stop after you've said the last thing you want to say or you risk being cut off.  If it does there is a feature in Quicktime that allows you to trim your video. 


The screen cast video shows what I've learned about revision history in google. I also learned about Draftback. This is a chrome extension that allows you to view in video format the changes to a document as they happen. 

PS-Ever learn something cool and completely forget how you've done it?  Yep! More times than I'd like to admit.  Here is a screen cast to remind myself later how I embedded that cool video.