There are some annoying glitches when you screencast with PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides. The main thing to work around is the full-screen presenter mode. If you present your slides using full-screen mode,  which makes the animations and the bullets etc work, this prevents you from seeing the annotation tools in recording programs such as Screencastomatic and screencastify. The workaround is to present it in a window. This allows you to resize your window, and see your recording and/or annotation tools.  These are also very good strategies for sharing presentations in Zoom so that you can access your other tools while presenting. Here is a quick screencast on how to do this.

Note: I did not show the toolbars very well in my video. When in Present in Window mode your animations will work just like they do in full screen mode. You can resize the presentation window so that you can see your tools. 

Quick Guide for showing your slides in a window for presentation rather than fullscreen.

• Power Point – View, Reading View

Google Slides – Present, Presenter View

Keynote- Play, Play Slideshow in Window (Play in Window for newer versions)

Diane Brenner , from TCEA, just wrote a very useful article noting the effectiveness of using Google and self-reported grading strategies. She sites John Hattie’s Research. I often hear about his work in Alice Keeler’s course.

Over the last few years, I have been integrating more peer and self-review activities into my class instruction. It doesn’t happen every day, but when it does, I am noticing powerful results.

Here is an example of what it looks like when I ask students to turn in a handout.

This is a classwork assignment. My students know they get complete credit for the assignment if they follow directions and try their best. I let them correct their work to engage them in the process.

Alice Keeler‘s Go Slow subscription classes and blog are great resources for coaching teachers who want to use self-reported grading and increase their effective strategy toolkit.