Instructional Screencast Task Analysis/Content Outline and Script

By: Patti Deep

Background Information: I attended a media workshop this past week. One of the workshops included a
seminar on how to use ProQuest (SIRS Discoverer webfind and images) when planning lessons. First, I
will deliver this information to the kindergarten through fifth grade teachers. This podcast will be
designed for teachers.
Later, I will begin presenting this program to third through fifth grade students. I will plan a podcast for
students at a later date that will give details on how students can discover information for projects
within this website.

Step Action on Screen Narration
1 Power point slide/music
Huahine Under the Moonlight
Micahel Torke
Tutorial on How to Use SIRS
Discoverer
2 Our school district which is
www.telfairschools.org
Hello and welcome to this video
tutorial on how to use Sirs
Discoverer. On the screen, you
will see that we are at the
county website page.
3 Our school district which is
ww.telfairschools.org
Go to the very top of the
website labeled select a school.
We will select Telfair County
Elementary School.
4 Telfair County Elementary
School appear.
Go to the menu bar and select
staff.
5 Telfair County Elementary Staff
Directory will be displayed.
The Telfair County Elementary
School Staff Directory will
appear on the screen. You will
need to select the Galileo
website. If you are using this
website at home, you will need
a password. The password is
cheek (c h e e k).
6 The Galileo High School website
will appear.
Notice at the top of the page,
you see Galileo High School. Go
to the bottom right hand corner
and select Galileo Kids (Grades
k-5).
7 The Galileo Elementary website
is on display.
The SIRS program stands for
Social Issues Research
Discoverer. You have three
different programs to choose
from which are SIRS Discoverer,
webfind, and images. We will go
into the webfind section.
8 The screen will buffer for a few
seconds saying here we go.

9 SIRS Discoverer will appear. At the top of the page, you see
common core correlations. We
will click on this icon.
10 The screen will read Georgia
Performance Standards: English
Language Arts and Reading.
I will choose kindergarten and
underneath, I will choose
reading. This will allow us to
narrow our search.
11 The screen will read Georgia
Performance Standards: English
Language Arts and Reading with
kindergarten elements.
I will click ELAKR1. I will narrow
it down to the a element of this
standard and we will click the
arrow beside ELAKR1.
12 The screen will read Georgia
Performance Standards: English
Language Arts and Reading with
kindergarten elements.
You will see the elements under
ELAKR1. We will click on the
letter a. Then, click see
resources.
13 The screen will read Georgia
Performance Standards: English
Language Arts and Reading.
Down below will read fiction
and other resources.
Looking below ELAKR1a, you
will see SIRS Discoverer and we
will click on fiction.
14 Subject Tree Search will be the
webpage.
At the top of the page, we have
how many articles, newspapers,
magazines, reference, graphics,
and webfind sites are about the
subject of snakes. Below that
are the reading levels such as
general, easy reading is grades
first through fourth, moderate
are grades fifth through
seventh. Also, at the bottom of
the page, you may click on the
number to get more pages with
different information. Now, lets
go back to the home page.
15 Sirs Discoverer home page Notice on the home page you
see many more features like the
ones on the right hand side
about the database features.
These database features
contain biographies and I think
skills tutor that concentrates on
the different steps of writing.

This ends this brief tutorial. I
encourage you to use this
program when planning lessons.
If you need any assistance,
please call Mrs. Deep or email
me at
pdeep@telfairschools.org.
16 Power point slide/music
Huahine Under the Moonlight
Micahel Torke
Contact information
pdeep@telfairschools.org or
call 868-7483 and ask for Mrs.
Deep.