Hi everyone,
I came across TouchCast Studio while researching for my A2 project earlier and was fascinated by its interactive features. Although it is not as well-known as other mobile video creation apps such as iMovie and Spark Video, I believe it has great potential in education. Therefore, I have decided to look further into this app. Hope you enjoy my analysis:
TouchCast Studio ReviewYour feedback is appreciated 🙂
Hey Ceci,
I really enjoyed this A1! It was well researched, very informative, and I appreciated having the transcript provided along with the video.
The two points I really appreciated here, aside from telling me about a video editing platform I never knew about, were:
1. The idea of videos in education having shifted from tools information, to participation, and now interaction.
2. The fact that videos are a tool for leveraging diversity of knowledge, indirect collaboration and adaptive mimicking.
A reflection for me is that I often wonder why educators worry about video creation being too complex: this is the exact joy of it! It a complicated, layered tool for media and a good video has hours of planning, shooting, and editing that goes into it. It requires understandings of lighting, sound, composition, eye tracking, and then a host of different tools and pieces of software that go with it. I think this complexity should be celebrated and seen as a platform to teach students a host of multiliteracies through one form of media.
Thanks for sharing!
J
Hi Jamie,
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comments. I enjoyed this project myself as well, with an aim to see how it can benefit my students. In my school, students from grade 6 and below are using iPads, and students from grade 7 and up are using laptops in the classroom. I do feel that the mobility of iPads allows learning to happen beyond the confines of the classroom walls. It also allows students to perform consultation tasks and production tasks easily, thus facilitating communication collaboration. According to Mulet et al. (2019), with mobile devices, consultation tasks such as viewing an animation, searching for information on the Internet, and production tasks such as recording videos, designing multimedia documents can be fulfilled more easily.
References
Mulet, J., van de Leemput, C., & Amadieu, F. (2019). A critical literature review of perceptions of tablets for learning in primary and secondary schools. Educational Psychology Review, 31(3), 631-662. doi:10.1007/s10648-019-09478-0