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I have to say, I prefer paper

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This is a short discussion of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man . The video was made to gain experience with screen casting technology. If I am being honest, I really, really disliked the experience of making this video. It was extremely frustrating trying to figure out how everything worked together and hunt down tutorials only to realize I couldn’t actually get it to do what I wanted without either A) using completely different programs, or B) paying a lot of money for several different full versions. I also did not really feel like it added to my own learning experience, as most of my time was spent re-recording over and over again every time I made a mistake. I could see screen casting being a useful and relevant technology to use for online courses, as it allows for spoken presentations in a class style that otherwise would not. However, in a normal classroom setting I don’t see myself ever using this except as a way to accommodate individual students’...