Difference between revisions of "Tools: Screencasting"

Revision as of 13:37, 25 October 2013

Watch this short video (2 minutes, 10 seconds) from Brutus Partners to discover:
- What is Screencasting?
- What is a sample of a Screencast?
- Why are Screencasts useful?

Watch this video (8 minutes, 31 seconds) from Brutus Partners to find out:
- What are the eight steps to create a Screencast?
  - Gather content, check your microphone, use a free screen capture tool (Jing) to capture your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF)
  - Edit your presentation (optional), upload your presentation to a location to share your presentation (screencast.com, Sakai, YouTube)
  - Set access options, give students access to your presentation

Watch his video
- Before recording your presentation, create a PowerPoint with your content
- You'll see a demonstration of using Jing, a free screencasting tool, to record a PowerPoint presentation
- You'll see how a Jing screencast can be uploaded to [screencast.com] to store your screencast (free with Jing)
- You'll see how a screencast can be displayed in Sakai, using the Sakai Text Editor

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 ** What are the '''eight steps''' to create a Screencast?
 *** Gather content, check your microphone, use a free screen capture tool ([http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html Jing]) to capture your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF)
-*** Edit your presentation (optional), upload your presentation to a location to share your presentation ([screencast.com], Sakai, [http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube])
+*** Edit your presentation (optional), upload your presentation to a location to share your presentation ([http://screencast.com screencast.com], Sakai, [http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube])
 *** Set access options, give students access to your presentation