Tools: Screencasting

Screencasting

What is Screencasting?

• Watch this short video (2 minutes, 10 seconds) from Brutus Partners to discover:
  • What is Screencasting?
  • What are some samples of a Screencast? (From: YouTube, Vimeo, Khan Academy)
  • Why are Screencasts useful?

How do you create a Screencast?

• Watch this video (8 minutes, 31 seconds) from Brutus Partners to find out:
  • What are the eight steps to create a Screencast?
    • 1) Gather content, 2) check your microphone, 3) use a free screen capture tool (Jing) to capture your presentation (PowerPoint, PDF)
    • 4) Edit your presentation (optional), 5) upload your presentation to a location to share your presentation (screencast.com, Sakai, YouTube)
    • 6) Set access options, give students access to your presentation

Demonstration of creating a screencast

• Watch this video (11 minutes, 15 seconds)to see a screencasting creation demo
  • Note: Before recording your presentation, create a PowerPoint with your content (or a Word document or PDF)
  • 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