Play a game

I played "Tower Blocks" on Facebook, via mindjolt.com. I played against my boyfriend, Mike. Well, I didn't exactly play against him, but we played concurrently, trying to beat each other's scores. Listen for guest appearances from my boyfriend and my parents.

Screencasting recap

Screencasting - great, except when it's not.

I normally use a Mac, and when I attempted to adjust my resolution to 800x600, the recommended size for screencasting, my screen got all pixelated and was difficult to navigate. Thankfully, I had borrowed a Dell laptop from my school library for another class project. I was able to install Jing and successfully screencast from there.

I also found it helpful to do a dry run of my screencast. I made sure I knew my script, the links worked (learned that one the hard way), and I wasn't near any ringing phones or loudmouth, whiny cats (again, learned the hard way). Part of the Jing screencasting experience is ensuring the screencast is shorter than 5 minutes, something that talkative me had trouble with at first. But after a few practice runs, I was able to get the hang of not being so verbose.

Facebook screencast

I was totally new to Facebook, so I made myself a little tutorial on how to upload and change your profile picture.

Watch it here: how to change your Facebook picture

How to make a pie graph in Excel

For my screencast, I decided to create something that I could show to the 598 class as well as my students. Students in 3-5th grade use Excel to create graphs, so I thought I'd demonstrate how to create a pie graph using Excel 2007. Enjoy!

Please click here to view - http://screencast.com/t/BVV6jdla